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I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.
Yes, styling is a must for me. If I ever were to blog, I'd also require images and latex rendering. But that's about it.
For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.
You can get a QR with your text too :-)
For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.
For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.
(hashify) 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197
(shortly) 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696127
Heads up: it doesn’t have no JavaScript at present, because Cloudflare’s email protection system is in place. (I hate that thing. It mangles non-email addresses all the time if they look even vaguely like an email address, e.g. a package with version number “foo@1.2.3”. Penalising users that disable JavaScript.) https://herman.bearblog.dev/ contains a “Get in touch” mailto: link that gets ruined, and the following sc…
Ah shit. Turning it off. Thanks for the heads up
Not blaming bearblog, but FYI
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Just change the font to something other than Garamond like Verdana. It is a nice font for paper, but not on websites.
Georgia is a decent serif that will typically be available. Or just `font-family: serif` which will most commonly be Times New Roman or similar, but will be whatever we prefer for those few of us that set the default fonts.
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I find that a curious attitude; I rather appreciate when I come across a site that uses a serif font. Sans-serifs are so terribly overused.
Sans serifs are overused because they look better on low resolution screens. If you haven't had to use a low resolution screen in a while then you are one of the privileged few.
But for 16px and up, which is what websites of today use, serifs are perfectly fine even on 1× displays (though sure, they’ll look better still on higher-DPI displays, but so will sans-serifs).
I should clarify that it depends on the font. Sans-serifs tend to have fairly even stroke width, but serifs tend to have more variable stroke width, and if the thin is too thin, you get a terrible font. That’s a common shortcoming of serif fonts, and Garamond demonstrates that, being quite unsuitable for screen use below 20px, maybe even 24px. Others like Georgia don’t suffer that weakness.
For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.
What are the economics of this? Presumably you are paying web hosting fees out of pocket. If this is successful, what's the plan for when you no longer want to be that charitable?