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Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

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Post by labrador »

Tomte wrote: post #26
labrador wrote: post #12

Some links I've saved. That said, there's no accounting for taste: https://tylr.fun/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440123 https://world.hey.com/dhh/google-suffers-from-a-digital-petr... https://vpostrel.com/ https://h3rald.com/ https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/boring/ http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html https://moxie.org/stories.html https://trevorklee.com/my-terrible-plan-for-reducing-opioid-...…

You've missed the best one of the *websites: https://bestmotherfucking.website/

A new one on me! I know some are offended by the language, but I think a tough talking web designer is funny. They kind of give me that Maddox vibe. He started the trend of tough talkers for comic effect many years ago

http://maddox.xmission.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

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Post by prmoustache »

dprophecyguy wrote: post #29
joe_guy wrote: post #16

http://danluu.com/

Man, it has page wide reading view, It's not at all good UX in any means.

Isn't relying on your window manager the best UX instead of relying on universally bad tricks from web devs?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

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Post by selfmodruntime »

prmoustache wrote: post #33
dprophecyguy wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man, it has page wide reading view, It's not at all good UX in any means.

Isn't relying on your window manager the best UX instead of relying on universally bad tricks from web devs?

No. Tablets and Phones do not have window managers. Also, a well defined side margin is not a "bad web trick" but an idea that's as old as print media, perhaps even as old as just written documents.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

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Post by jessfyi »

https://maggieappleton.com/ for her take on a digital garden. She also compiled more below [0] if opening your thought process to the public is your thing (adopting the concept actually got me to add more structure to my serious notes and actually post more)

https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works because of how in-depth he went with hosting his notes, bookmarks, and other projects.

https://wattenberger.com/ for its reactivity/place for her d3.js experiments.

and here is a general collection of dope blog additions: https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-w...

My overall advice is unless you're a designer flexing your skills is to focus less on the design and more on the actual writing! The internet is littered with the emaciated husks of nice good looking sites hosting nary an entry beyond "How I Made My New Blog With X"

[0] https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners

Re: Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

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Post by prmoustache »

selfmodruntime wrote: post #34
prmoustache wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't relying on your window manager the best UX instead of relying on universally bad tricks from web devs?

No. Tablets and Phones do not have window managers. Also, a well defined side margin is not a "bad web trick" but an idea that's as old as print media, perhaps even as old as just written documents.

Have you opened aforementionned link on a smartphone? I did and it renders well.

Plain text is responsive by design.

Also the browser on my phone allow me to dial font sizing in 3 seconds.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?

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Post by nicbou »

jessfyi wrote: post #36

https://maggieappleton.com/ for her take on a digital garden. She also compiled more below [0] if opening your thought process to the public is your thing (adopting the concept actually got me to add more structure to my serious notes and actually post more) https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works because of how in-depth he went with hosting his notes, bookmarks, and other projects. https://wattenberger.c…

The illustrations on Maggie's website are gorgeous.

I've been focused on content for 5 years (for my website that pays the bills), but the website is so bland. I'd love if people could go "nice" when they use the website.

It seems like Maggie nailed that. Thanks for sharing.

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