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sakura

:cherry_blossom: a minimal css framework/theme.

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:cherry_blossom: a minimal css framework/theme.

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For those who find this website's edge to edge text maddening to read on large displays, I highly recommend Sakura (https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura) for a one-click fix for…

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Observed mentions: 2017-05-03 15:30:56 UTC to 2026-10-21 16:49:31 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Exactly this. My entire website is handcrafted, and not once but over the last decade almost ~10 times. It's fun and I almost end up revamping something every year. Everything handcrafted: - the matrix js code on home page. https://oxal.org click on the matrix for a surprise! - it's built using my own Static Site Generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox - my website uses a css theme, again handcrafted: https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura/ - if you go to https://oxal.org/blog/ you will see a small cyborg following you (started with a base image generated by chatgpt and then edited and added animations manually in Piskel sprite editor) - it's deployed on a VPS manually, just run `make` (I've experimented with serving it via a handwritten C http server, but I haven't finished this toy project yet) - i have several shell scripts which upload
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s things to my websites in private locations (think gists, quick share videos, screenshots etc.). - the favicon is also pixel art, made when I was still in college! https://oxal.org/favicon-32x32.png - I even tried designing my own funky font but gave up and used a Naruto inspired font - and as a bonus, try to `view-page-source` on the home page I see my website and feel extremely proud of my journey as a software engineer, and I cherish this simple thing oh so dearly!
In My website is ugly because I made it
In A Drop-In CSS Framework That Transforms Bare HTML into Modern Designs
The blog is built with eleventy https://www.11ty.dev/ and as the previous reply already mentioned, the source code is on GitHub [2]. All posts are single Markdown file each with HTML inserted where I need it. The javascript for the demos is custom and changes from post to post. The basic style comes from Sakura CSS [3] with a bunch of custom stuff on top. [1] https://www.11ty.dev/ [2] https://github.com/FrostKiwi/treasurechest [3] https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura
In AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
oh i collect these! - https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ mvp.css - https://yegor256.github.io/tacit/ - https://github.com/alvaromontoro/almond.css has thin fonts - https://picocss.com/ Elegant styles for all natives HTML elements without .classes and dark mode automatically enabled. - https://simplecss.org/demo 4kb incl dark mode - https://watercss.kognise.dev/ Small size (< 2kb) - https://github.com/xz/new.css (https://newcss.net/) 4.8kb - https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura supports extremely easy theming using variables for duotone color scheming. - https://github.com/susam/spcss - https://neat.joeldare.com/ https://github.com/codazoda/neatcss - https://concrete.style/ Tiny (< 1kb) - https://github.com/zichy/fieber (new, wants feedback) - https://mikemai.net/typesettings/index.html (new) for more: https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy/bl
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In Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards
i collect these for fun! adding to my collection https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dro... more like this: - https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ mvp.css - https://yegor256.github.io/tacit/ - https://github.com/alvaromontoro/almond.css has thin fonts - https://picocss.com/ Elegant styles for all natives HTML elements without .classes and dark mode automatically enabled. - https://simplecss.org/demo 4kb incl dark mode - https://watercss.kognise.dev/ Small size (< 2kb) - https://github.com/xz/new.css (https://newcss.net/) 4.8kb sets some sensible defaults and styles your HTML to look reasonable - https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura supports extremely easy theming using variables for duotone color scheming. It comes with several existing themes - https://github.com/susam/spcss
In Show HN: Neat – Minimalist CSS Framework
In Show HN: Bolt.css – Another classless CSS library
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In MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
This is quite nice! Shameless plug for my version of this (sakura.css [1]) which is - much smaller (3.9kb / 1.9kb gzipped) - looks more in-line with the default browser styles (demo [2]) - but does not use css variables yet, instead different themes are provided as different css files. My reasoning for this is that if you're using this you probably don't want to mess around with css too much :) [1]: https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura [2]: https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/demo/
In Almond.css: Collection of CSS styles to make simple websites look nicer
I agree. That is why I actually just decided to use different css files for different themes in sakura.css (it comes in at 3.8k / ~1.8k gzipped) This also means that they can easily be used by others as well [1]. Have gotten some folks contribute their own themes over the years. I also had friends who didn't want to understand CSS, and adding in media queries, variables, and dark mode support would only just confuse them even more. [1]: https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura/tree/master/css
In Pico CSS Framework

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