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This website's background color is considered harmful, and "considered harmful" essays are considered harmful.

sudoit 7y ago
I changed the CSS before reading
oefrha 7y ago
Site is also non-responsive with <meta name="viewport" content="width=640" />, looks horrifying on the 12.9’’ iPad Pro even without taking color scheme into account. I know complaining about blog design is out of scope, but if @tonsky is reading this thread, please consider fixing your meta viewport tag.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  > I hope you have a wide enough monitor to read this. Perhaps they're merely unaware of how their website looks?
  - madeofpalk 7y ago
    Yeah, I did think it was amusing reading that on my 27" 2550px wide monitor monitor that the site formatted it so narrowly. https://i.imgur.com/VG31Kpj.png https://i.imgur.com/VG31Kpj.png
    - Fauntleroy 7y ago
      For body copy that line length is pretty much ideal (for readability), but the code blocks could definitely benefit from being as wide as possible...
      - madeofpalk 7y ago
        Yeah, the reading experience was pretty comfortable. Just thought it was amusing that the author hoped I had a big monitor when the author constrains the code blocks to such a narrow width.
  - jamil7 7y ago
    This part also tripped me up since I _was_ on a large monitor but the width was tiny.
  - oefrha 7y ago
    Or they use some special monospace font where 157 characters at 16px could somehow fit into a 544px wide column (well, that still got nothing to do with monitor width, though).
  - stan_rogers 7y ago
    That refers to a <pre> block with no carriage returns, which ordinarily wouldn't wrap.
- barbecue_sauce 7y ago
  I always see people complain about the narrowness of Medium and think they're overreacting, but this site is pretty extreme. I could fit 3 of these side-by-side across my 13" MacBook Pro's screen.
- briandear 7y ago
  > I know complaining about blog design is out of scope In this case, considering the topic, such a complaint is really warranted. A set of sensible defaults for that blog would have made it more readable — the blog design is pretty much a rebuttal of the content.
choward 7y ago
After reading this I agree that SwiftUI terrible. I still don't get why it's considered "harmful" though.
- timerol 7y ago
  This is basically a clickbait title at this point. After a now-famous CS letter by Dijkstra, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the title format expanded dramatically. I'm personally a large fan of Meyer's '"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful'[2] as a explanation and satire of the genre. Wikipedia also has a decent summary[3]. 1: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p... 2: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
  - Stratoscope 7y ago
    This letter was also a classic example of how writers don't always choose titles, editors do. Edsger Dijkstra's original title was "A Case Against the Goto Statement". Niklaus Wirth was editor of the Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) at the time and changed the title to the now infamous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful".
  - choward 7y ago
    Explaining "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful
hombre_fatal 7y ago
The background made me think Flux turned on spontaneously.
airstrike 7y ago
Agreed. Going from a solarized-themed HN to that link was simply painful.

I changed the CSS before reading

Site is also non-responsive with <meta name="viewport" content="width=640" />, looks horrifying on the 12.9’’ iPad Pro even without taking color scheme into account. I know complaining about blog design is out of scope, but if @tonsky is reading this thread, please consider fixing your meta viewport tag.

saagarjha 7y ago
> I hope you have a wide enough monitor to read this. Perhaps they're merely unaware of how their website looks?
- madeofpalk 7y ago
  Yeah, I did think it was amusing reading that on my 27" 2550px wide monitor monitor that the site formatted it so narrowly. https://i.imgur.com/VG31Kpj.png https://i.imgur.com/VG31Kpj.png
  - Fauntleroy 7y ago
    For body copy that line length is pretty much ideal (for readability), but the code blocks could definitely benefit from being as wide as possible...
    - madeofpalk 7y ago
      Yeah, the reading experience was pretty comfortable. Just thought it was amusing that the author hoped I had a big monitor when the author constrains the code blocks to such a narrow width.
- jamil7 7y ago
  This part also tripped me up since I _was_ on a large monitor but the width was tiny.
- oefrha 7y ago
  Or they use some special monospace font where 157 characters at 16px could somehow fit into a 544px wide column (well, that still got nothing to do with monitor width, though).
- stan_rogers 7y ago
  That refers to a <pre> block with no carriage returns, which ordinarily wouldn't wrap.
barbecue_sauce 7y ago
I always see people complain about the narrowness of Medium and think they're overreacting, but this site is pretty extreme. I could fit 3 of these side-by-side across my 13" MacBook Pro's screen.
briandear 7y ago
> I know complaining about blog design is out of scope In this case, considering the topic, such a complaint is really warranted. A set of sensible defaults for that blog would have made it more readable — the blog design is pretty much a rebuttal of the content.

choward 7y ago

After reading this I agree that SwiftUI terrible. I still don't get why it's considered "harmful" though.

timerol 7y ago
This is basically a clickbait title at this point. After a now-famous CS letter by Dijkstra, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the title format expanded dramatically. I'm personally a large fan of Meyer's '"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful'[2] as a explanation and satire of the genre. Wikipedia also has a decent summary[3]. 1: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p... 2: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
- Stratoscope 7y ago
  This letter was also a classic example of how writers don't always choose titles, editors do. Edsger Dijkstra's original title was "A Case Against the Goto Statement". Niklaus Wirth was editor of the Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) at the time and changed the title to the now infamous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful".
- choward 7y ago
  Explaining "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful

hombre_fatal 7y ago

The background made me think Flux turned on spontaneously.

airstrike 7y ago

Agreed. Going from a solarized-themed HN to that link was simply painful.