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- This 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 <ul> or <div> instead of <table> 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.
by laladrik - Anything here: https://bearblog.dev/discover/by nicbou
- https://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.
by jonjacky - by kyawzazaw
- for some reason, stripe owns this magazineby matrix87
- https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ - book design adapted for web
https://practicaltypography.com/ - tons of practical advice on typefaces and text-based UX
https://harmful.cat-v.org/ - more of a "website-style" layout than the above two
by zbikowski - Language Log: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
The simple layout/theme does not get in the way of the reading.
- https://computer.rip/
One of my favorites.
by pockybum522 - Here is a decent collection of some text heavy personal sites. Not affiliated in any way: https://mnmm.xyz/by b00palicious
- I like the design of https://dbushell.com/blog/
Though mainly I just like the general 50s aesthetics of it, rather than specific UI elements.
- I definitely read that as D-Bus hellby xref
- Came here to say this, absolute best blog typography in the last 30 yrsby genericacct
- 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.
- I like reading Julia Evans blog. Aside from the good writings, I think the typography and the paragraph width fits nicely.by faizmokh
- Lesswrong for both sidebars: the heading based TOC on the left, and the margin notes on the right: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bJ2haLkcGeLtTWaD5/welcome-to...
For interactive / code snippets Maxime Heckel: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-study-of-shaders-wit...
Honorable mentions Maggie Applebaum https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment Marek Chotoborski https://zanlib.dev/blog/number-inputs-in-react/
Line width, sane fonts, avoiding clever shit unless very polished, gets you a long way.
by RickS - Wow. Maxime’s site is gorgeous.
Thank you
- Less Wrong is wrong a lot lol.by wrentopher