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Lean Rada
leanrada.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2023
Lean Rada writes about small, hand-built web techniques, including htmz, CSS-only image placeholders, collision detection, and vanilla web rewrites.
What HN saysHN commenters point to htmz as a 160-byte alternative to HTMX, and like its CSS blurry placeholders compared with BlurHash.
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- 1Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML8 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2024 · 242 comments on HN
- 2CSS Sprite Sheet Animations2 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 3AI art is not generative art2 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 4Gallery2 people · first shared 2025
- 5Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders1 people · 470 points · first shared 2025 · 75 comments on HN
- 6Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)1 people · 340 points · first shared 2024 · 58 comments on HN
- 7Rewriting my site in vanilla web1 people · 15 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Pure CSS single-page app routing · leanrada.com1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9Simple live reload for developing static sites1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 10Compressing a Web Page into a URL1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Homepage1 people · first shared 2024
- 12Sweep and prune 21 people · first shared 2024
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fuzzythinker · 2024-08-14
Part 2: https://leanrada.com/notes/sweep-and-prune-2/
Check out his other goodies https://leanrada.com/
niutech · 2026-05-30
You don't need HTMX, there is 160-bytes HTMZ: https://leanrada.com/htmz/
recursivedoubts · 2026-01-31
I mean you're not wrong: end of the day htmx is just some javascript written on top of standard vanilla javascript apis. It tries to handle things in a more html-centric, attributes-driven manner than script-oriented approaches do, but it's nothing too complicated
check out fixi for our ultra-minimalist take on the idea:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi
Or, for extreme minimalisim, htmz, which repurposes iframes for a similar idea:
https://leanrada.com/htmz/
kitd · 2025-12-18
Ofc if you really want to lose bloat, there's always Htmz
https://leanrada.com/htmz/
8n4vidtmkvmk · 2025-04-03
The half blue / half green image still looks better with LQIP than BlurHash. I was getting ready to use BlurHash in my app, might try this instead!
In fact, LQIP looks better than most of the BlurHash examples in the gallery (https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/gallery/); not sure if these were cherry picked or what.
rckt · 2025-04-03
In the gallery https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/gallery/ there's a good example of what I mean - the bottom right image or 4th from the end. A completely different image in comparison to the gradient.
As for the minimalism, I understand what you mean. But I understood the "minimal" part in regard to implementation, not usage. If we only mean usage, we can say the same about a lot of libs, that they are minimal. Yeah, it's minimal for the end user, but under the hood it is not as minimal. It's not anything bad, it's just how I interpreted the title.
Kalabasa · 2024-05-20
Nowadays, it's easy for people to see the term "generative art" and immediately assume "AI art".
It's kinda annoying, so I wrote this post https://leanrada.com/notes/ai-art-not-generative-art/
PreInternet01 · 2024-03-30
Yup. And it's good. My aspiration, though, it to migrate to https://leanrada.com/htmz/
shagbag · 2025-01-07
Even better:
https://leanrada.com/htmz/