New comment by mb2100 in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

mb2100 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:09:57 +0000

This. "No loading animations" works if you rely on the browser's loading indicators that all users will be familiar with.

@OP, if you're up for a rewrite of the frontend, happy to help you get started with https://mastrojs.github.io

New comment by mb2100 in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

mb2100 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:27:55 +0000

the achilles heel of SPAs everywhere.

New comment by mb2100 in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

mb2100 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:27:05 +0000

right? or give me GitHub issues before the React rewrite – at least they loaded fast...

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mb2100 — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:42:19 +0000

What AI is doing to the jobs of programmers feels very familiar to a lot of us frontend developers – because it has happened to us before.

New comment by mb2100 in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

mb2100 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:17:13 +0000

Yeah, while you certainly can write semantic HTML with Tailwind, it absolutely doesn't encourage it. It's funny how Tailwind is conceptually going back to inline styles.

But sure, if you have , <Header> and <Button> components etc. instead of using HTML elements <h1>, <header>, <button> etc. directly, then why not stuff the CSS into the components as well? It all depends on whether you prefer to use components, HTML elements or a combination as your favourite abstraction.[0]<p>[0]: <a href="https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-11-27-why-not-just-use-inline-styles-tailwind/" rel="nofollow">https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-11-27-why-not-just-use-...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:06:15 +0000</p> <p>Sounds similar to <a href="https://nightride.com" rel="nofollow">https://nightride.com</a> ?</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "I’ve banned query strings"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:17:05 +0000</p> <p>That's because Apache is basically what today's JS crowd would call a "file-based router", and then the app implements the actual routing in that index.php file. Just like early SPA stored the route in a hash. It's funny how history repeats itself.<p>I've gone back and forth on file-based vs programmatic routing. But each has pros and cons, so in the end I implemented both in Mastro: <a href="https://mastrojs.github.io/docs/routing/" rel="nofollow">https://mastrojs.github.io/docs/routing/</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "Zig → Rust porting guide"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:47:37 +0000</p> <p>What's the main motivation for considering Rust?<p>For what it's worth, in my last experience with Bun[0] I ran into a couple of bugs where it seemed Rust could have helped, e.g. using Bun.write<p>[0]: <a href="https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-10-29-what-struggled-with-porting-mastro-to-bun/" rel="nofollow">https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-10-29-what-struggled-wi...</a>)</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:31:12 +0000</p> <p>Agree that TypeScript is nice, especially for sharing templates and types between server and client. But you can still use TypeScript on the server without sending it all to the client, and without a complex and insecure protocol like RSC. I’m working on making this as simple and dependency-free as possible: <a href="https://mastrojs.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://mastrojs.github.io</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "The End of Eleventy"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:01:11 +0000</p> <p>That was exactly my experience as well, hence I created a "Minimal Astro": <a href="https://mastrojs.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://mastrojs.github.io</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Deno Employees Leave</h1> <p>mb2100 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:53:39 +0000</p> <p>Article URL: <a href="https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-18T07:00Z/">https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-18T07:00Z/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426555">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426555</a></p> <p>Points: 6</p> <p># Comments: 1</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "A simple web we own"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:33:37 +0000</p> <p>Yeah, for that a git-based CMS like Sveltia is really nice.<p>And for people that actually want to learn a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Mastro JS is as simple a static site generator as I could make it.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:32:05 +0000</p> <p>if you're not using CSS modules, why would you import the css file into your javascript? But anyway, I think we agree. Feel free to read the linked blog post ;-)</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:30:19 +0000</p> <p>button, .button { /* my button styles */ }</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:43:31 +0000</p> <p>If everything in your code is a React component, I get why you would just want to write the styles right there.[0] Then again, why write `<Button>` if you could just write `<button>` and style it with standard CSS.<p>[0]: <a href="https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-11-27-why-not-just-use-inline-styles-tailwind/" rel="nofollow">https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-11-27-why-not-just-use-...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "[dead]"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:53:09 +0000</p> <p>In Unix, everything is a file. In Mastro, everything is an HTTP route. You use the standards-based Request/Response-API not only for writing your server, but also for static site and asset generation. And it's beautiful.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:43:51 +0000</p> <p>Tell me you're nostalgic for Win95 without telling me...</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:40:51 +0000</p> <p>As company size grows, managers want to settle on a "standardized" tech stack that doesn't get in the way when they want to hire and fire people at will.<p>Nobody was ever fired for choosing React (or IBM). But everyone can get fired when they're working on a React app.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "jQuery 4"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:35:31 +0000</p> <p>That's a very nice pattern indeed. If you add signals, the update function even gets called automatically. That's basically what we do in [Reactive Mastro](<a href="https://mastrojs.github.io/reactive/" rel="nofollow">https://mastrojs.github.io/reactive/</a>) ;-)</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by mb2100 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"</h1> <p>mb2100 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:18:47 +0000</p> <p>that very much depends on your definition of "modern web framework".</p> </article> </main></body></html>

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