HEhenrid·Oct 30, 2026Submission
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pico
Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML
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Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML
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Observed mentions: 2021-10-23 11:22:45 UTC to 2026-10-30 01:58:44 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesOr PicoCSS https://github.com/picocss/pico
In Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production trafficYou could namespace the Pico styles using SASS. Basically like [1] but you'd extend it to be e.g.
.pico-enabled *:not(.piko-disabled) {
@import "layout/document"
@import "layout/sectioning"
@import "layout/container"
...
Then you can do this:
<div class="piko-enabled">
...
<button>A button with Piko styling</button>
<div class="piko-disabled">
<button>A vanilla browser button</button>
... and any 3rd party components/elements etc ...
[1] https://github.com/picocss/pico/issues/31#issuecomment-91399...
In Pico CSS Frameworkwill recommend water.css over picocss
I feel like this is a design flaw: https://github.com/picocss/pico/issues/13
In Why I built my own static site generator