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6/9/2026 at 7:35:00 PM

Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs the are a joy to read

by joshmarinacci

6/10/2026 at 8:50:45 AM

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

6/10/2026 at 4:55:23 AM

I like reading Julia Evans blog. Aside from the good writings, I think the typography and the paragraph width fits nicely.

https://jvns.ca/

by faizmokh

6/9/2026 at 9:00:37 PM

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

6/10/2026 at 12:54:19 AM

Wow. Maxime’s site is gorgeous.

Thank you

by joshmarinacci

6/9/2026 at 11:12:41 PM

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.

by deckplecksetter

6/10/2026 at 2:36:56 AM

https://gwern.net

by sammygutierrez

6/10/2026 at 9:22:58 AM

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.

by hiAndrewQuinn

6/10/2026 at 7:47:44 AM

Came here to say this, absolute best blog typography in the last 30 yrs

by genericacct

6/9/2026 at 10:32:34 PM

Here is a decent collection of some text heavy personal sites. Not affiliated in any way: https://mnmm.xyz/

by b00palicious

6/10/2026 at 9:09:36 AM

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by Torikul007

6/10/2026 at 7:05:44 AM

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