Adam Argyle
nerdy.dev · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Adam Argyle, a front-end developer formerly at Google, writes about modern CSS, UI techniques and web components.
What HN saysHN commenters link his modern CSS list as excellent, though one finds his 'minimalism' claim at odds with a heavy landing page.
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Igelau · 2020-10-08
I followed the one author's blog link: https://nerdy.dev/
It says he enjoys 'minimalism'.
I keep seeing this from UX people with these baroque monster websites, is that just a meaningless buzzword now?
alwillis · 2026-08-12
An excellent list of modern CSS: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce.
There's also https://modern-css.com/.
unicornporn · 2020-10-08
> is that just a meaningless buzzword now?
Very much, yes. If anything that word is now a warning sign. Thanks mr. minimal nerdy dev for having me download a minimal 9 MB auto playing header video over my mobile plan on your landing page[1].
This[2] is a better example of "minimalism" (I have to wash my mouth now). Notice something? Not a single mention of the word "minimal" in the entire article. Aaand, developer tools says it's 84 KB of data. Compare that to the the 13800 KB of the nerdy.dev landing page. Funny, [2] seems to be 164 times "more minimal" than [1].
[1] https://nerdy.dev/
[2] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/low-bandwidth-hosting-tips.html
jakelazaroff · 2025-12-28
That is no longer true! You can do it in CSS with a combination of `@starting-style` and `transition-behavior: allow-discrete`. [1]
Another gotcha you'll run into is animating the height. A couple other new features (`interpolate-size: allow-keywords` and `::details-content`) will let you get around that. [2]
Modern CSS is awesome.
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/entry-exit-animations
[2] https://nerdy.dev/open-and-close-transitions-for-the-details-element
nine_k · 2025-05-11
Maybe they are safe from being laid off, though you never can tell [1]. But it does not mean they enjoy the tension, the demands, the disagreements, etc that likely crop up. At their position, they can afford to not put up with that, not hold onto the enviable salary, like many others doubtlessly and begrudgingly do.
[1]: https://nerdy.dev/ex-googler