| ▲ | tobinfekkes an hour ago |
| Wow, my browser's Reader Mode saved my bacon on this one. Otherwise, I would have left immediately. I'm all for speedy, simple, plaintext websites, but it is a negligible amount of work in 2026 to throw some barebones CSS in and make it approachable. |
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| ▲ | vessenes 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Counterpoint - I like Dan's site. I think it fits his vibe and priorities, and I don't find it unreadable. I can always pick my browser width and font size with a couple keyboard touches, and I never have to fight his idea of how I should want to read it. |
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| ▲ | jaggederest an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ironically a perfect thing to iterate on with your favorite coding agent. "make this page look better, present me 2 versions, I'll pick my favorite, and we'll iterate until I say stop" |
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| You must not look at many academic websites. |
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| ▲ | beyonddream an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don’t know why you got downvoted but you have a point. It looks as if OP doesn’t write for readership and his posts contents have similar characteristics of reckless abandon for conventional norms for a tech post. Too many cross references and link-backs to his own other articles that makes it really hard to follow the main thread of the essay. |
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| ▲ | privong an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The downvotes may be related to community enforcing what's in the HN guidelines: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | |
| ▲ | phist_mcgee an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Dan Luu is a bit famous around HN. I think he might subscribe to the philosophy of everyone should style websites however they like and not be prescribed by the author. | | |
| ▲ | markdown an hour ago | parent [-] | | Nah, he's just trying to be different. It's vanity. He's had a usable website in the past. This one is explicitly made to be shitty. "Look at me, I'm such a geek" energy. | | |
| ▲ | tom_ an hour ago | parent [-] | | His site has always looked like this, i'm sure of it. This is what sites look like if you just write them as text. Not everybody knows how to use sql or css or java or whatever thing it is that lets you pick the font. | | |
| ▲ | markdown 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I'm almost certain he used to have a reasonably styled website. I just tried to look it up but it looks like he's excluded the website from WayBackMachine. > Not everybody knows how to use sql or css or java or whatever thing it is that lets you pick the font. lol at the idea that Dan Luu can't add css to his website by copypasting some links into his html. He could make the site readable in about 3 mins and never have to worry about it again. <!-- Google Fonts -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,300italic,700,700italic">
<!-- CSS Reset -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/normalize/8.0.1/normalize.css">
<!-- Milligram CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/milligram/1.4.1/milligram.css">
BTW this is just the first such library I found. There are lots of 'em, and all very well documented, requiring less knowledge to use than what it takes to publish a blog... which he's mastered. |
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