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Posted by ltratt 18 hours ago

We should be more ambitious with the software we build(danluu.com)
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It used to be that people set the width of their browser window to the text page width they’re comfortable with, and configured a different font if they didn’t like the default one on their browser.

We should be more ambitious in letting the browser software control the presentation according to the user’s preferences. This is not facetious. We should use the increased ease of building software to create software that is flexible, empowers the user, and accommodates different user preferences.

tptacek 16 hours ago|||
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ciupicri 14 hours ago||
I don't find it tangential. If AI is so good with complicated software, it can deal with a simple website, right? Or then maybe it's not that great.

By the way, I'm still waiting for Meta and Google do something about Instagram and Chrome so that my CPU usage doesn't go to the roof. They're front runners in the AI race, so it should be easy for them, right?

nick__m 17 hours ago|||
Most browsers have a reader mode that you can configure to your liking.
shiandow 16 hours ago|||
Pretty sure this is mostly unstyled html. If you don't like how it looks that's on you.
doodlesdev 17 hours ago|||
I find Dan Luu's blog extremely good to read on mobile, with great typography. The website also works with Firefox Reader mode and loads pretty quickly due to using the system's font.
phyzome 16 hours ago|||
If you're using Firefox, hit Ctrl-Alt-r and it looks however you want it to.
bigstrat2003 15 hours ago||
No. Line length and text wrapping restrictions are the devil. If you want smaller width text, resize your browser window rather than making a site that sucks for us who don't want smaller text width.
Vaushite 13 hours ago||
Rotate your monitor 90 degrees and rotate your display output accordingly. It's an underrated life hack. 9:16 instead of 16:9.