| ▲ | _doctor_love 8 hours ago |
| I love Dan's writing. I really do. But I don't understand why he doesn't have some basic styling on his blog so that it's easier to read. |
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| ▲ | Kuyawa 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| body { margin: 5%; } That's all it needs, responsive enough for all devices. He can keep his styleless design but margin is always needed. |
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| ▲ | chiply 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I love this take because I had exactly the opposite idea. I thought the combo of remarkably simple text (not even wrapped) with incredible, full width visualizations was chef's kiss. I really like the balance there personally, but I hear you. Does your browser have Reader Mode or something like that? I don't use those tools personally, but I believe they will recast the text parts into something that renders optimally for reading (ideal font size, number of characters per line, etc....). |
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| ▲ | scared_together 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It may be an artistic/engineering choice to demonstrate what minimizing bloat to an extreme degree looks like. https://danluu.com/web-bloat/ |
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| ▲ | nicebyte 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| reader mode helps. |
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| ▲ | 9rx 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Users being able to supply their own stylesheet is a core tenant of CSS. Go nuts and make it look however your heart desires! |
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| ▲ | _doctor_love 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Supply my own stylesheet? No thank you, I'm not here to do work for free. | | |
| ▲ | 9rx 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is doing something for yourself really working for free? That's an interesting take. But I can understand why you don't want this for yourself, so enjoy the page in all its splendour as it is already! | | |
| ▲ | lyall 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Go to restaurant > Order food > Food comes out as raw, unprepared ingredients > Complain to chef > Tells me to go cook it myself > wtf, I'm not here to do work for free > "Is doing something for yourself really working for free?" | |
| ▲ | _doctor_love 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So every person who reads Dan's blog and finds the layout too dense, they should write and maintain a stylesheet for his site? And every person globally should do this as well for any other website that doesn't have a good default reading experience? | | |
| ▲ | dash2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If most readers of danluu don’t find that, then yes! | |
| ▲ | lemming 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean, if it really bothers you you could fairly trivially apply picocss or whatever to it using a user stylesheet. That is so little effort that calling it working for free would be disingenuous to say the least. | | |
| ▲ | tclancy 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Multiple people, me being the third or fourth, are not feeling the default layout and you all read that as a signal it's working as intended? | | |
| ▲ | lemming an hour ago | parent [-] | | No, just that it’s easy to change for those that don’t like it. Clearly some people do like it (including Dan, presumably). |
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