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disclaimer: my own blog - https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=Why_I_Block_Scripts_and_Ads https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=Why_I_Block_Scripts_and_Ads I kept look

disclaimer: my own blog - https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=Why_I_Block_Scripts_and_Ads https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=Why_I_Block_Scripts_and_Ads I kept looking for a "minimal" blogging platform, but they all had too much bloat/JS/etc. I guess minimal means different things to different people. I ended up just writing my own. The biggest post I have is 7.41 KB. I used to be interested in front-end design, but since it's the industry standard to use $latest_framework, instead of tried and proven practices, I've given up on that idea.

detaro 11y ago
One extreme end of the scale ;) I feel like investing a few hundred extra bytes on some styling might be worth it, a la http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ vs http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
- CaptSpify 11y ago
  I'm of the mindset that our browsers are built backwards. For "content-oriented" sites, we should present text, and give the users tools in their browsers to present them as the user sees fit. Instead, we expect the site to design it. Something like Firefox Reader View. Some people may like bettermotherfuckingwebsite better, but I personally don.t "presentation-oriented" sites are a different story, of course
  - detaro 11y ago
    Basic styles don't mess with Reader View or other customization, so I don't see a large downside to include them, they just make it nicer for people not using such tools. Unless the point is to get people to use different tools?
    - CaptSpify 11y ago
      > Unless the point is to get people to use different tools? Kind of. I dream of an Internet where people have their own CSS/styles, and they can make it look how they want, rather than how the website wants it. I think of it like this: I'm a linux guy. I want my tools to output plainly to stdout. If I want to format them, I'll pipe them into my own formatting tools. I wish websites worked that way as well.

detaro 11y ago

One extreme end of the scale ;) I feel like investing a few hundred extra bytes on some styling might be worth it, a la http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ vs http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

CaptSpify 11y ago
I'm of the mindset that our browsers are built backwards. For "content-oriented" sites, we should present text, and give the users tools in their browsers to present them as the user sees fit. Instead, we expect the site to design it. Something like Firefox Reader View. Some people may like bettermotherfuckingwebsite better, but I personally don.t "presentation-oriented" sites are a different story, of course
- detaro 11y ago
  Basic styles don't mess with Reader View or other customization, so I don't see a large downside to include them, they just make it nicer for people not using such tools. Unless the point is to get people to use different tools?
  - CaptSpify 11y ago
    > Unless the point is to get people to use different tools? Kind of. I dream of an Internet where people have their own CSS/styles, and they can make it look how they want, rather than how the website wants it. I think of it like this: I'm a linux guy. I want my tools to output plainly to stdout. If I want to format them, I'll pipe them into my own formatting tools. I wish websites worked that way as well.