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Lea Verou
Personal blog · lea.verou.mewebdesign
Lea Verou's personal blog at lea.verou.me covers web and design. Since 2011, 125 different Hacker News readers have linked it 175 times, most often “CSS3 Patterns Gallery”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lea Verou's blog for its writing on CSS, colour spaces and web components, and for her CSS3 patterns gallery and polyfills. Commenters cite her posts as sources, and one calls her CSS Secrets book awesome.
- Recommended for · 6 comments
- Commenters recommend her CSS and web components posts as worth reading, call her CSS Secrets book awesome, and list her among the blogs they learned most from.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-11-20
- LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how?6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-04-06
- The Failed Promise of Web Components6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
- Dark mode toggles: two states are enough5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-08-06
- Why tabs are clearly superior4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-01-17
- LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how?4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-06-18
- Web Components Are Not Framework Components – and That's Okay4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-02
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-02
- Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
- Introducing Bliss: A 3KB Library for Happier Vanilla JavaScript | Lea Verou3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-04
What Hacker News says?
If there are apps on MacOS that can't handle high dpi mode, I haven't run into them as a developer (or doing photo editing, video editing, plus whatever other hobbies I do). Same. I haven’t run into any apps that don’t support high dpi mode. Even terminal apps look great on my Retina 4k iMac screen. Before getting this machine nearly a year ago, I couldn't natively view high dpi graphics for web projects I’d work on…
Comment linking /2020/04/lch-colors-in-css-what-why-and-how/
on “Time to Upgrade Your Monitor”Submitted My positive experience as a woman in tech as a story · 520 points
HN discussion>I (maybe I am wrong) have been intending to treat team-members as "some dudes with bumps on their chest that may have various after hours habits that are none of my concern". FWIW, this is personally my ideal working environment. I can't speak for women in general, and I'm not a moral authority, but this is exactly the kind of treatment I want from my coworkers. >what should I do to be better? I don't know, honestl…
Comment linking /2015/12/my-positive-experience-as-a-woman-in-tech/
on “Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail”Submitted The Failed Promise of Web Components as a story · 367 points
HN discussionSome amazing non-male developers: — Jen Simmons: http://labs.jensimmons.com/ — Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/ — Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me/ — Mina Markham: http://mina.codes/ — Sara Soueidan: https://sarasoueidan.com/articles/ — Sarah Mei: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/ — Ana Tudor: https://thebabydino.github.io/ — Anna Debenham: http://www.maban.co.uk/
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020) as a story · 341 points
HN discussionIronically, the author of dpi.lv ( https://lea.verou.me/ ) doesn't even bother to have a "desktop-friendly" site. On desktop everything (font, header, images, buttons) is huge and ~50% of the vertical space is wasted. Not the best calling card for someone living "at the bleeding edge of web standards". Or maybe it looks Ok if you view it on a Mac?
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on “Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone”Submitted Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective as a story · 319 points
HN discussionNice http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/#marrakesh
Comment linking /css3patterns/
on “HTML5 Deck of Cards”Submitted Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of web applications as a story · 158 points
HN discussionhttp://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/ could provide a pretty good source for patterned card backs.
Comment linking /css3patterns/
on “HTML5 Deck of Cards”Submitted On yak shaving and <md-block>, a new HTML element for Markdown as a story · 121 points
HN discussionThat principle has been stated and developed in other context. For example, there was an earlier HN post about composition of features ( https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/eigensolutions/?latest ) Another example is in ecology. Resilient ecology has many possible interactions among members of the ecology (including humans). An "invasive species" isn't necessarily one that is not native to the ecology, but one that is ab…
Comment linking /blog/2023/eigensolutions/?latest
on “Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel”Submitted CSS3 Patterns Gallery as a story · 84 points
HN discussionGood question. There’s a good post from Lea Verou worth reading. https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/wcs-vs-frameworks/ I think anything meant to be like a widget is a good fit. But an iframe you have the option of putting an app behind it while a web component is purely front end code. So maybe that’s a limitation for you. We at least plan to wrap iframes in web components for a nicer embed API.
Comment linking /blog/2024/wcs-vs-frameworks/
on “Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components”Submitted Engage, don't show as a story · 70 points
HN discussionThis is nice. I didn't try but to get a pseudo-random variation of the book height, will it be possible to do a pre-defined Cicada Principle[1] method, say, pick 20-30 heights and keep picking them up. There seem to be quite a lot of people who have their own book collection. I'm still looking for something simple that can spit out a HTML front; and yet to find something I like. On another note, recently I was looki…
Comment linking /2020/07/the-cicada-principle-revisited-with-css-variables/
on “I made a virtual bookshelf”Submitted The - -var: ; hack to toggle multiple values with one custom property as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI did some quick search, and found few ones. You can search for similar ones -- these are beaten topics and have been discussed, blogged, done in length. - More Meaningful Typography from List Apart, https://alistapart.com/article/more-meaningful-typography/ - Responsive typography with Modular Scale: Create meaningful proportions in your design using SASS, https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/responsive-typography-with-mod…
Comment linking /2020/07/the-cicada-principle-revisited-with-css-variables/
on “My First CSS”Submitted Eigensolutions: Composability as the Antidote to Overfit as a story · 39 points
HN discussionA gentle reminder: conditionals aren't new to CSS; @supports and @media are conditionals; so are style queries. if() just codifies behaviors and hacks [1] developers were already doing. [1]: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2020/10/the-var-space-hack-to-togg...
Comment linking /blog/2020/10/the-var-space-hack-to-toggle-multiple-values-with-one-custom-property/
on “CSS now has an if() conditional function”Submitted In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam as a story · 25 points
HN discussionthere is a good article from lea verou https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/contrast-color/ on a workaround like this
Comment linking /blog/2024/contrast-color/
on “How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS”Submitted Writable Getters as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSomewhat similar to the progress bars built by Lea Verou: http://lea.verou.me/polyfills/progress/
Comment linking /polyfills/progress/
on “I made progress bars using only CSS3. You can use them for free.”Submitted JQuery considered harmful as a story · 21 points
HN discussion95% of the more complex errors I've seen* in CSS have been some combination of a misunderstanding of positioning ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position ) and the box model ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box_model ). The other 5% of relatively complex display errors are actually due to unfortunate choices when writing the HTML. I think once you understand those, the rest is re…
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on “Free Ebook: How to Code in HTML5 and CSS3”Submitted CSS3 Secrets 10 things you might not know about CSS3 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRead lea verou book 'css secrets' it's an awesome book for every web developer. http://lea.verou.me/writing/
Comment linking /writing/
on “Ask HN: Learning modern web design and CSS”Submitted On the blindness of blind reviews (2015) as a story · 9 points
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