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dropin-minimal-css
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dohliam / dropin-minimal-css

dropin-minimal-css

Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks

15Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.8KGitHub stars
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Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-05-04 20:05:30 UTC to 2024-02-08 12:48:39 UTC.

02462017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Nice work! I like that you have included support for prefers-color-scheme, which is one of the more highly-requested features for these kinds of frameworks. I've added Lissom to the big list of minimal CSS frameworks [0] which aims to collect all of these types of projects (more or less) in one place for ease of discoverability and comparison. You can preview the CSS on some HTML5 boilerplate here [1]. [0]: https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css [1]: https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/?lissom
In Show HN: Lissom.CSS - A classless, minimalist, and themeable CSS library
This reminds me of a css switcher project I found on GitHub [1] while I was messing around with classless style sheets. Makes it just so easy to switch and select. Embed in your html page, select an item from the drop down and see what it does to the page, when you’re happy, remove ! Simple. Genius. Wonder why I never thought of it. Also has a demo page [2] to try it out [1]: https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css [2]: https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/
In MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
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In MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
This is great! I've added it to this big list[0] of classless/minimal CSS frameworks (100+ frameworks) to make it easier to compare to other similar projects. For those interested in Pico (which is already on the list), you can preview it on some boilerplate HTML here[1] or use the Javascript bookmarklet[2] to preview how it would look on any arbitrary page, which can be helpful for prototyping a new site. [0]: https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css [1]: https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/?pico [2]: https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css#bookmarklet
In Pico CSS Framework
Interesting the author mentions he is inspired by MVP.css[0]. I am in the process of changing my home page yet again to remove the current CSS framework I used. No more classes. After a few months not touching my site I find don't understand my own web site. Interestingly I still remember HTML elements I learnt in late 90s. I am sticking to styling HTML and will use one of the minimalist CSS frameworks that have been popping up on HN[1][2] of late. I see this can be used with pandoc, I just installed pandoc yesterday to see if I should use pandoc as my static site generator. Look forward to trying this out. [0]https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ [1]https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23220081
In Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support

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