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I’d like to tinker with that font, it burns my eyes to try and read the words styled like that, maybe that’s the intent?
"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.
When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.
The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.
I used to resonate with the word "taste" as a distinguishing factor between good and bad quality, but a comment on HN some months ago about one of the many blog posts that talks about taste really nailed it: "Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things. When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities. The more I thought…
I’d like to tinker with that font, it burns my eyes to try and read the words styled like that, maybe that’s the intent?
i am fascinated with that effect and turned off every CSS rule on the page I could find but did not identify how you make that effect
body::after {
content: "";
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 1px, transparent 1px);
background-size: 2px 2px;
background-repeat: repeat;
...What exactly does "taste" mean in this context? Taste is about artistic quality. Aesthetics is generally a tertiary concern when it comes to software or hardware tinkering. That assumes it's a concern at all. And while I'm talking about artistic quality on HN, I have to take some obligatory potshots at the website in question. When I have to use Safari's reader mode to see what you wrote, something has gone terribly…
> And what I mean by taste here is simply the honed ability to distinguish mediocrity from excellence. This will be highly subjective, and not everyone’s taste will be the same, but that is the point, you should NOT have the same taste as someone else.
Concisely, discernment.
So your comment about “artistic quality” may apply. But from your ends sentence It seems you equate “artistic quality” to aesthetics , and I don’t think that’s what the author intended.
I’d like to tinker with that font, it burns my eyes to try and read the words styled like that, maybe that’s the intent?
i am fascinated with that effect and turned off every CSS rule on the page I could find but did not identify how you make that effect
body::after {
content: "";
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 1px, transparent 1px);
background-size: 2px 2px;
background-repeat: repeat;
pointer-events: none;
z-index: 9999;
}I despise the word "taste" for preferring specific software and workflows. Why are you selecting for aesthetic experience over usefulness? I do get satisfaction from the results of my work, not through the mechanical process of arriving there. Tools are useful or not and this is the category by which I decide to use them or not.
Also usefulness is very subjective too depending on the context and scope.
The irony of an article about taste displaying little of it.
I despise the word "taste" for preferring specific software and workflows. Why are you selecting for aesthetic experience over usefulness? I do get satisfaction from the results of my work, not through the mechanical process of arriving there. Tools are useful or not and this is the category by which I decide to use them or not.
It is not about aesthetics , from my reading. You brought that connotation into the conversation.