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Hi, I'm the author. While I've got your attention, I would be interested in hearing feedback about how I can improve the reading experience (text colour/fonts/

Hi, I'm the author. While I've got your attention, I would be interested in hearing feedback about how I can improve the reading experience (text colour/fonts/sizes/wording etc.) of my blog posts. I used to have blinking text for the email signups at the bottom, but I got rid of it since it didn't have a huge effect (I think it only doubled the conversion rate). I have learned that some people really hate blinking text.

ComputerGuru 11y ago
Hey Robert! I've had your virtual memory article open in a tab since it made the HN homepage recently - but I had to close it because every day it would cause a massive memory leak in Safari for some really odd reason. I'd repeatedly kill the process hosting the webpage (it'll respawn 3 times then surrender) but every time I visited that tab by accident it would happen again. Just an FYI :)
- robertelder 11y ago
  Yes that's not surprising, the code for that implementation is quite scary and in order to make the page not lag terribly I realized at the end that I would effectively have to re-invent some of what react.js does (because it would have taken too long to completely re-write). I've considered re-writing an open source version with react that people could fork and incorporate into course material, but all that stuff takes time. I can think of a few places where there would probably be circular object references, so that's probably where the memory leaks come from. Thanks for the feedback :)
simoncion 11y ago
The color, layout, and font sizes are quite fine the way they are. The containers for your paragraphs expand to the full width of the screen, no matter the width, which is awesome! Everything in the linked article is easy to read on my crummy laptop screen. (Its screen makes seeing too-low-contrast color changes [0] rather difficult. The fact that all of your site is legible is a strong indicator that your contrast and color scheme choices are perfectly adequate ones.) In short, don't change anything about the layout, unless you are really motivated to do so. You've made good choices! [0] Such as -2 or -3 and below comments on HN.
dredmorbius 11y ago
Actually, pretty good, though I'd recommend letting body font being solid black or perhaps #330 (and no lighter). I can't view elements from mobile, but the results look good. Layout is comfortable, good margins, well-differentiated bits, and all without being distracting. I've got a general set of tips most of which you can likely ignore. Check that you're using em/rem rather than px or pt for font sizes: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/29eqrk/web_design_principles_achieved_through_experience/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/29eqrk/web_des...

ComputerGuru 11y ago

Hey Robert! I've had your virtual memory article open in a tab since it made the HN homepage recently - but I had to close it because every day it would cause a massive memory leak in Safari for some really odd reason. I'd repeatedly kill the process hosting the webpage (it'll respawn 3 times then surrender) but every time I visited that tab by accident it would happen again. Just an FYI :)

robertelder 11y ago
Yes that's not surprising, the code for that implementation is quite scary and in order to make the page not lag terribly I realized at the end that I would effectively have to re-invent some of what react.js does (because it would have taken too long to completely re-write). I've considered re-writing an open source version with react that people could fork and incorporate into course material, but all that stuff takes time. I can think of a few places where there would probably be circular object references, so that's probably where the memory leaks come from. Thanks for the feedback :)

simoncion 11y ago

The color, layout, and font sizes are quite fine the way they are. The containers for your paragraphs expand to the full width of the screen, no matter the width, which is awesome! Everything in the linked article is easy to read on my crummy laptop screen. (Its screen makes seeing too-low-contrast color changes [0] rather difficult. The fact that all of your site is legible is a strong indicator that your contrast and color scheme choices are perfectly adequate ones.) In short, don't change anything about the layout, unless you are really motivated to do so. You've made good choices! [0] Such as -2 or -3 and below comments on HN.

dredmorbius 11y ago

Actually, pretty good, though I'd recommend letting body font being solid black or perhaps #330 (and no lighter). I can't view elements from mobile, but the results look good. Layout is comfortable, good margins, well-differentiated bits, and all without being distracting. I've got a general set of tips most of which you can likely ignore. Check that you're using em/rem rather than px or pt for font sizes: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/29eqrk/web_design_principles_achieved_through_experience/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/29eqrk/web_des...