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David Bushell
Personal blog · dbushell.com · on HN as dbushellwebprogrammingdesign
David Bushell's personal blog at dbushell.com covers web, programming and design. Since 2011, 76 different Hacker News readers have linked it 132 times, most often “Death to Scroll Fade”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Bushell's posts for his personal AI abstention policy, his WordPress 6.3 breakage rant, and notes on front-end tooling such as Deno, Node and Pikaday. Commenters also mention his site design.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the linked WordPress 6.3 rant does a much better job explaining the situation than the HN submission.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
David Bushell – Web Design & Front-end Development (UK)
Most-linked posts?
- Death to Scroll Fade5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
- They don't make 'em like Sublime Text anymore4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-07
- AI Policy4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-14
- Framework Is Showing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-13
- 404 Deno CEO not found3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-20
- GitHub Is Sinking3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-29
- A Fun Line of Code – David Bushell3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-27
- Trillion Dollar Elephants2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-08
- Fine, I'll build my own text editor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-01
- JSR (JavaScript Registry): First Impressions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-23
What Hacker News says?
Disappointing news to see it shut down, but maybe the writing was on the wall after they laid off some of their folks. I've been using deno for years and built some nontrivial services in it. When deno added support for npm packages, the early days were pretty rough. I ran into lots of issues with packages and spent a lot of time reading random github issue threads. It's been pretty smooth sailing for the last year…
Comment linking /2026/03/20/denos-decline-and-layoffs/
on “Cloudflare acquires Deno”Submitted I said no and Apple said yes as a story · 886 points
HN discussionHe did justify it in https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-09-16T05:01Z/
Comment linking /notes/2026-09-16T05:01Z/
on “I said no and Apple said yes”Submitted Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend as a story · 323 points
HN discussionWhat's more interesting is his "No AI" policy https://dbushell.com/ai/
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on “I said no and Apple said yes”Submitted Et Tu, Grammarly? as a story · 279 points
HN discussion> https://dbushell.com Heh, I honestly thought the domain name stood for "D-Bus Hell" and not their own name.
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on “XSLT RIP”Submitted Fine, I'll build my own text editor as a story · 263 points
HN discussionThis is actually a clever way to distinguish if the browser supports XSLT or not. Actual content is XHTML in https://xslt.rip/index.xsl The author is frontend designer and has a nice website, too: https://dbushell.com/ I like the personal, individual style of both pages.
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on “XSLT RIP”Submitted Deno's Decline as a story · 208 points
HN discussionThe author gives his (non-technical) reason for not using bun here: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-10T12:08Z/
Comment linking /notes/2025-09-10T12:08Z/
on “Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend”Submitted SVG, Use it Already as a story · 95 points
HN discussionContext: https://dbushell.com/2025/11/10/pikaday
Comment linking /2025/11/10/pikaday
on “Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers”Submitted What is wrong with this message? as a story · 91 points
HN discussionI like the design of https://dbushell.com/blog/ Though mainly I just like the general 50s aesthetics of it, rather than specific UI elements.
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs the are a joy to read”Submitted Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThis is linked to in the rant that's submitted to HN. It does a much better job explaining the situation. https://dbushell.com/2023/08/16/wordpress-6-3-breaking-decad...
Comment linking /2023/08/16/wordpress-6-3-breaking-decades-of-css/
on “WordPress 6.3 broke my site and theme. Again”Submitted A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over as a story · 59 points
HN discussionYeah, scroll fade might be useful sometimes but most of the time it's just annoying. https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/
Comment linking /2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/
on “The Boring Internet”Submitted AI Policy as a story · 52 points
HN discussion> Yes, and those are interesting topics to discuss. "AI is useless and I refuse to use it and hate you if you do" isn't... Did you read Mr. Bushell's policy [0], which is linked to by TFA? Here's a very relevant pair of sentences from the document: Whilst I abstain from AI usage, I will continue to work with clients and colleagues who choose to use AI themselves. Where necessary I will integrate AI output given by o…
Comment linking /2025/05/15/slopaganda/
on “You can't pay me to prompt”Submitted Modern WordPress – Yikes as a story · 39 points
HN discussionLove the one-armed code bandit on the home page of this blog! Nice UX experience! See: https://dbushell.com/
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on “I Quit. The Clankers Won”Submitted CSS Button Styles You Might Not Know as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Is Sinking as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is It Time to Regulate React? as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted A single license fee of £100k.00 as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ember Data and MongoDB as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern WordPress – Yikes as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted 404 Deno CEO not found as a story · 15 points
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