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Mark Otto
Personal blog · markdotto.comprogrammingdesign
Mark Otto writes @mdo, a personal blog at markdotto.com about programming and design. Since 2011, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “Bootstrap.less”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mark Otto's blog for Bootstrap material, including Bootstrap 2 announcements and docs, Preboot and Bootstrap.less, GitHub's Primer toolkit and system font stacks, and an essay on the designer-developer spectrum.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- A post on the design and development spectrum, described as a sentiment one commenter loved; a Less boilerplate CSS page described as possibly of interest to th
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Designer, developer, and advisor. Building Pierre. Previously at GitHub and Twitter. Creator of Bootstrap. Huge nerd.
Most-linked posts?
- Bootstrap.less5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-03-21
- Bootstrap 23 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-24
- Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-14
- Shipping the new GitHub Issues3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-08-04
- Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-24
- /2015/03/23/introducing-primer/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-23
- Introducing (Unofficial) GitHub Buttons 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-27
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-27
- 3D Text Using Just CSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-05
- Better code reviews with Blended Diffs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17
What Hacker News says?
What is the relationship between this and Bootstrap.less ( http://www.markdotto.com/bootstrap/ ), other than it appears to be by the same person? What about Skeleton ( http://www.getskeleton.com/ )? Are they just 3 different visual approaches to the same problem, or is there an evolutionary progression among them?
Comment linking /bootstrap/
on “Twitter Bootstrap”Submitted Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback as a story · 310 points
HN discussionMain dev is Mark Dotto who previously released Bootstrap.less: https://github.com/markdotto/Bootstrap.less http://markdotto.com/bootstrap/
Comment linking /bootstrap/
on “Twitter Bootstrap”Submitted Bootstrap 2.0.2 released as a story · 99 points
HN discussionMiscellaneous technical stuff: - https://danluu.com/ - https://blog.jessfraz.com/ - https://adamwathan.me/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ - https://dankim.org/ - https://mtlynch.io/ - https://rgz.ee/ - https://markdotto.com/ - https://thorstenball.com/ - https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/writing/ - https://lukesmith.xyz/ - Quirky minimalist linux & free software stuff. I don't agree with many of his…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Introducing (Unofficial) GitHub Buttons as a story · 99 points
HN discussionHere is my list of solo developer blogs. Usually they are on topic. This does not include personal blogs I follow that happen to be developers. @mdo (Bootstrop) - http://markdotto.com/ Keith Cirkel - https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/ Coding – Corbin's Treehouse - https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog Aaditya Purani – Ethical Hacker - https://aadityapurani.com/ Ben Balter - http://ben.balter.com/ fulldecent - https://pr…
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Learnings from open-sourcing Bootstrap as a story · 45 points
HN discussion`@primaryButtonColor`, a less variable is by default set to `@blue`: http://markdotto.com/bs2/docs/less.html#Conponents . You can always change and recompile.
Comment linking /bs2/docs/less.html
on “Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback”Submitted GitHub's CSS as a story · 22 points
HN discussionhttp://markdotto.com/bs2/docs/less.html Odd, it says that lessc can take --compress, but using the most recent version of less in npm says that there's no such flag. Maybe it's on the way, or the bootstrap authors know something we don't.
Comment linking /bs2/docs/less.html
on “Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback”Submitted Better code reviews with Blended Diffs as a story · 11 points
HN discussionNot quite a concise summary, but looking at the documentation, the biggest changes I noticed were : - Responsive design using media queries - CSS Progress bars - A few new javascript plugins (Carousel, Typehead) - Icons The documentation is online here in case you missed the link the article : http://markdotto.com/bs2/docs/index.html Maybe someone has a better summary
Comment linking /bs2/docs/index.html
on “Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback”Submitted Shipping the new GitHub Issues as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe docs offer more details: http://markdotto.com/bs2/docs/index.html Here's my quick (and probably incomplete) list: - new 12 column grid - responsive layout - tons of new JS plugins - stacked forms are now the default - lots of new 'controls', like split buttons, new tabs, toolbars, highly styled radio buttons and check boxes. - icons(!)
Comment linking /bs2/docs/index.html
on “Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback”Submitted 3D Text Using Just CSS as a story · 8 points
HN discussionDoes anyone know if there are more detailed upgrade docs available? The ones provided in the repo ( http://markdotto.com/bs2/docs/upgrading.html ) mainly cover features and I don't fancy finding all the various classes that have changed since 1.4.
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on “Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback”Submitted GitHub.com flow as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBootstrap is great and would be my top recommendation, I see Mark Otto from Twitter is working on v2. See his blog at http://www.markdotto.com/ .
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on “Design for Developers”Submitted The Designer-Developer spectrum as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIndeed. From the announcement blog post: "It will always be GitHub’s internal toolkit first, designed to help build GitHubby things. That said, we love to share." [1] [1]: http://markdotto.com/2015/03/23/introducing-primer/
Comment linking /2015/03/23/introducing-primer/
on “Primer – CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub”Submitted Bootstrap.less as a story · 4 points
HN discussionRelated blog post: http://markdotto.com/2015/03/23/introducing-primer/
Comment linking /2015/03/23/introducing-primer/
on “Primer – CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub”Submitted Shipping Blended Diffs: A new diff style as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne of the authors of bootstrap also released, today, a version of the Bootstrap framework (with another name since he left twitter) using mixins and mobile first. But built with less and not sass. http://markdotto.com/2013/02/28/reintroducing-preboot/
Comment linking /2013/02/28/reintroducing-preboot/
on “Zurb Launches Foundation 4”Submitted macOS Web Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou don't need custom style sheets. One font-family declaration can hit them all: https://markdotto.com/2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/#the-st...
Comment linking /2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/
on “Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021”Submitted Introducing Poole, the Jekyll butler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi Nick! Thanks for making this, I'm going to add it to a project right now. One quick note -- it'd be cool if you had a big "find me on Github" button near the top, just for convenience. And so that people understand right away that it is a project they can easily download and mess around with. You could even go for something snazzy like an unofficial Github watch or fork button: http://www.markdotto.com/2011/11/26…
Comment linking /2011/11/26/introducing-unofficial-github-buttons/
on “Bootbox.js - alert, confirm and flexible dialogs for Twitter's bootstrap”Submitted Stop the cascade as a story · 2 points
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