that thumbnail box appears at random and takes a couple seconds to be populated. Wikipedia has those but they only appear when you hover over some links. When they appear, they are already populated.. Man, that box keeps popping up for no reason..
Design of This Website (2021)
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#22It's terrible.
When browsing this website, one needs to be careful not to move the mouse over anything that will trigger a popup and cover the page they are trying to read. It's quite easy to accidentally get to 3 layers of pupups.
Popups are antipattern, at least when they appear automatic, without user interaction.
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#23I fund gwern unreadable, despite their focus on typography. Maybe it's just my b rain not working very well with serif fonts.
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#25The ideas are great, but the implementation is too heavyweight for a phone. There is delay when clicking a side note and the Lorem Ipsum page crashes.
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#26Gwern’s site always reminds me of the Talmud (Jewish religious text), which also has a highly distinctive design with multiple “panels” and heavy emphasis of commentary and references. It’s also somewhat confusing and intimidating the the “uninitiated” reader! It is certainly memorable though.
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#28I'm amazed by Gwern's ability to write. It seems that this guy's writing throughput is higher than my reading throughput. It also reminds me somehow Fravia's SearchLores, it has a similar philosophical feel to it.
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#29I wouldn't necessarily call this a minimalist design. I do like Tufte-style websites with sidenotes, but these don't show on mobile for this site, despite my tablet having a large screen.
> Gwern.net used Baskerville, but system Baskerville fonts don’t have small caps.
Can someone explain to me what is meant by this? I don't understand what not having small caps means. I use Baskerville in my LaTeX documents with Michael Spivak's MathTime2 Pro fonts I purchased. I am currently building my blog, and despite trying to just get it out there and worry about my ideal design later, I am considering trying Baskerville and other such fonts instead of sans-serif fonts.
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#30I wouldn't necessarily call this a minimalist design. I do like Tufte-style websites with sidenotes, but these don't show on mobile for this site, despite my tablet having a large screen. > Gwern.net used Baskerville, but system Baskerville fonts don’t have small caps. Can someone explain to me what is meant by this? I don't understand what not having small caps means. I use Baskerville in my LaTeX documents with Mic…
Small caps are what they sound like, uppercase characters the size of lowercase characters. Kind of.