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I love a minimal, text-only website as much as the next crotchety HN reader, but a little bit of CSS goes a very long way in terms of readability. Edit: Upon f

I love a minimal, text-only website as much as the next crotchety HN reader, but a little bit of CSS goes a very long way in terms of readability. Edit: Upon further inspection I see that this page was designed to be hard to read. Very curious.

occamrazor 7y ago
Reader view helps a lot, and with such a simple website it is guaranteed to give a good result.
- dr_zoidberg 7y ago
  Not just a lot, it actually makes it readable. However I do feel this article needs a few graphs and diagrams. I've written [0] about data recovery and SSD/Flash storage is a massive beast to tackle even with diagrams to give you a vague idea of what's going on. [0] in old fashioned tree-based paper, unfortunately
  - ShroudedNight 7y ago
    Is there an available method to acquire some of these marked-up dead trees?
- 867-5309 7y ago
  not if you're reading via Materialistic via Android browser with no responsive design or zoom ~,~
  - Flott 7y ago
    In Materialistic you can hit the red round button that appears bottom right of the screen. That way you can zoom. It won't help you much with this article, but it can be handy sometimes.
computator 7y ago
If the author is reading this, I’d like to ask him to please run his article through a spell checker. All the effort to write a nice article is spoiled by having dozens of typos and spelling mistakes.
- Bozzz 7y ago
  I found some of his grammatical choices to be questionable as well.
- ryanmercer 7y ago
  never realized how awful some of my own posts were with such errors until I ran my favorite ones through Grammarly after having paid for it last year to help me with writing a book draft (I abuse the hell out of commas apparently too, I blame Reddit). Worse, some of them I'd sent to people dozens of times to read and there were these horrible typos cringe.
gowld 7y ago
How so? It's a nice single column of test on my mobile.
- thejj100100 7y ago
  It's a wide column of text on a larger screen - usually text is centred in the middle.
hollander 7y ago
Use reader mode

occamrazor 7y ago

Reader view helps a lot, and with such a simple website it is guaranteed to give a good result.

dr_zoidberg 7y ago
Not just a lot, it actually makes it readable. However I do feel this article needs a few graphs and diagrams. I've written [0] about data recovery and SSD/Flash storage is a massive beast to tackle even with diagrams to give you a vague idea of what's going on. [0] in old fashioned tree-based paper, unfortunately
- ShroudedNight 7y ago
  Is there an available method to acquire some of these marked-up dead trees?
867-5309 7y ago
not if you're reading via Materialistic via Android browser with no responsive design or zoom ~,~
- Flott 7y ago
  In Materialistic you can hit the red round button that appears bottom right of the screen. That way you can zoom. It won't help you much with this article, but it can be handy sometimes.

computator 7y ago

If the author is reading this, I’d like to ask him to please run his article through a spell checker. All the effort to write a nice article is spoiled by having dozens of typos and spelling mistakes.

Bozzz 7y ago
I found some of his grammatical choices to be questionable as well.
ryanmercer 7y ago
never realized how awful some of my own posts were with such errors until I ran my favorite ones through Grammarly after having paid for it last year to help me with writing a book draft (I abuse the hell out of commas apparently too, I blame Reddit). Worse, some of them I'd sent to people dozens of times to read and there were these horrible typos cringe.

gowld 7y ago

How so? It's a nice single column of test on my mobile.

thejj100100 7y ago
It's a wide column of text on a larger screen - usually text is centred in the middle.

hollander 7y ago

Use reader mode