I like reading Julia Evans blog. Aside from the good writings, I think the typography and the paragraph width fits nicely.
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#13https://gwern.net
Came here to say this, absolute best blog typography in the last 30 yrs
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#14This one looks good to me. https://matklad.github.io/. Coincidentally the author has recently posted about CSS for blogs https://matklad.github.io/2026/06/04/css-unavoidable-bad-par....
I have my own blog, but I'm unhappy with its design as well; therefore I'm not sharing it. Nevertheless, I find particularly challenging two things: 1. Make tables readable from a smartphone. There are a few tricks which allow you to make a responsive table. However, those tricks implies that you use or instead of which defeats the point of having a table. 2. I had an article where I needed to put a tiny mind map. Eventually I put it as a picture, because the solutions to draw a mind map with JavaScript made the page as twice as heavy.
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#16https://gwern.net
Gwern's website changed my life at least 12 years ago by introducing me to spaced repetition, which solved my greatest bottleneck at the time: very smart and totally unable to remember anything in the moment to actually apply those smarts to. I'm glad I got the opportunity to finally remunerate him some very small amount after he set up a Patreon or what have you around the time of that Dwarkesh podcast. There are like at least a dozen other works on there that were formative for me too, very highly recommended.
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#17https://www.datagubbe.se/short/
Header, body, trailer panels with three complementary background shades that soften the large black sans-serif typography.
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#18https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku.htm
Explanation of Sudoku in APL. Lots of information, absolutely no clutter. Entire page is nothing but text in a single precise sans-serif typewriter font, the same size and strength for everything: headings, explanation, code, and tables. Typewriter font includes mathematical symbols.
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#19https://sites.gatech.edu/alexburgin/on-self-respect-by-joan-...
Dramatic sepia photograph contrasts with understated gray text on light gray background with lots of empty space.
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