There's a great essay hiding in that page, but oh my goodness that is a frustrating format and layout.

A small plea to authors - if you absolutely must use scroll-linked animations and fade-ins, please at least make sure all the text is fully readable within 25% of the scroll height. It is so frustrating not being able to read things until they reach the middle of the page. Trying to look at images that aren't fully loaded until the top is already scrolling off the page! What's the point of having a 4k monitor if I can only use the top half!

Looked like a broken page until I happened to scroll (as that works with broken pages). Stopped and closed when I saw Apple crap.

Sorry, I try to keep both camps in mind as I build these things. There's a text version linked at the top, but the link is here: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii

It sure looks like the author likes webpages coming alive too!

Link at top...

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii

Well, it's LLM generated for sure. I wouldn't call it great.

prefers-reduced-motion == 1 quiets that nonsense in a lot of cases, but many sites don't respect it. I wish this gratuitous animation fad would just die already. It adds nothing.