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Dan Luu's blog is great and we all love it BUT CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TEACH THIS MAN CSS?

dang 5y ago
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pkrumins 5y ago
  I disagree. THE WHOLE INTERNET IS COMPLAINING.
  - dang 5y ago
    Come on, you've been here for 14 years. It isn't time to start vandalizing the place.
coldtea 5y ago
Nah, we just need to get you to learn to adjust your browser window size and/or font size.
- deleted 5y ago
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chamakits 5y ago
I completely understand this reaction, as I also feel... weird at first whenever I see his site. Specifically I always feel I'd like to have space on the sides. Having said that.... I frequently read his posts, and don't find his lack of space on the sides (or any other lack of style) prevents me from reading his blog posts. Is there any specific reason why we feel this 'weirdness' from the lack of style beyond a built in expectation we all have about styling that we've seen in other sites?
Archelaos 5y ago
Use Firefox in reading mode [F9] and everything is fine. No CSS necessary.
Shared404 5y ago
Honestly, I find this a lot easier to read then most websites. The mf'ing website, though crude, makes some good points. I personally would far prefer if more sites looked like this. Also, before someone comments. Yes I'm allowed to cuss on the internet. No I don't care if you cuss. Yes I'm allowed to not cuss on the internet.
halostatue 5y ago
https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ - The styling and content on this website: I regularly get design folks and typographers telling me how stupid the design is, frequently in ways that become condescending very quickly if I engage with them - - But, when I tested out switching to the current design from the generally highly lauded Octopress design, this one got much better engagement when a user landed on the site and also appeared to get passed around a lot more as well - - When I've compared my traffic numbers to major coprorate blogs, my blog completely dominates most < $100B companies (e.g., it gets an order of magnitude more traffic than my employer's blog and my employer is a $50B company) - - When I started my blog (and this is still true today), writing advice for programming blogs was to keep it short, maybe 500 to 1000 words. Most of my blog posts are 5000 to 10000 words. What I’ve done with all of his posts is used reader mode in Safari.
- bee_rider 5y ago
  Huh, I like his page just fine in normal view, but reader view works really well there. I'm glad he uses minimal styling. Designs which look bad in normal view are usually fixed by reader view. Designs which look bad in reader view are probably completely unsalvagable.
johnisgood 5y ago
Wait... why? What is wrong with content without bullshit? It is black on white text, and just that. I see no problem with it. I would rather have this than one giant word per line in the middle (absurd spacing and absurd font sizes are trendy nowadays).
- fastball 5y ago
  My main issue is that text that goes across the entire screen is less readable. It's much easier to lose your place in the text like this.
  - johnisgood 5y ago
    Oh, I got 1280x1024, so it is good on my end with my old 17" monitor. :)

dang 5y ago

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

pkrumins 5y ago
I disagree. THE WHOLE INTERNET IS COMPLAINING.
- dang 5y ago
  Come on, you've been here for 14 years. It isn't time to start vandalizing the place.

coldtea 5y ago

Nah, we just need to get you to learn to adjust your browser window size and/or font size.

deleted 5y ago
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chamakits 5y ago

I completely understand this reaction, as I also feel... weird at first whenever I see his site. Specifically I always feel I'd like to have space on the sides. Having said that.... I frequently read his posts, and don't find his lack of space on the sides (or any other lack of style) prevents me from reading his blog posts. Is there any specific reason why we feel this 'weirdness' from the lack of style beyond a built in expectation we all have about styling that we've seen in other sites?

Archelaos 5y ago

Use Firefox in reading mode [F9] and everything is fine. No CSS necessary.

Shared404 5y ago

Honestly, I find this a lot easier to read then most websites. The mf'ing website, though crude, makes some good points. I personally would far prefer if more sites looked like this. Also, before someone comments. Yes I'm allowed to cuss on the internet. No I don't care if you cuss. Yes I'm allowed to not cuss on the internet.

halostatue 5y ago

https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ - The styling and content on this website: I regularly get design folks and typographers telling me how stupid the design is, frequently in ways that become condescending very quickly if I engage with them - - But, when I tested out switching to the current design from the generally highly lauded Octopress design, this one got much better engagement when a user landed on the site and also appeared to get passed around a lot more as well - - When I've compared my traffic numbers to major coprorate blogs, my blog completely dominates most < $100B companies (e.g., it gets an order of magnitude more traffic than my employer's blog and my employer is a $50B company) - - When I started my blog (and this is still true today), writing advice for programming blogs was to keep it short, maybe 500 to 1000 words. Most of my blog posts are 5000 to 10000 words. What I’ve done with all of his posts is used reader mode in Safari.

bee_rider 5y ago
Huh, I like his page just fine in normal view, but reader view works really well there. I'm glad he uses minimal styling. Designs which look bad in normal view are usually fixed by reader view. Designs which look bad in reader view are probably completely unsalvagable.

johnisgood 5y ago

Wait... why? What is wrong with content without bullshit? It is black on white text, and just that. I see no problem with it. I would rather have this than one giant word per line in the middle (absurd spacing and absurd font sizes are trendy nowadays).

fastball 5y ago
My main issue is that text that goes across the entire screen is less readable. It's much easier to lose your place in the text like this.
- johnisgood 5y ago
  Oh, I got 1280x1024, so it is good on my end with my old 17" monitor. :)