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Having an insight into one area of computing doesn't make you an expert in all areas of computing.

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It certainly makes some people think they do though.

They can't separate the content from the medium.

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Consider if I was an expert in databases. Why would the appearance of a site dedicated to databases matter? It'd be completely unrelated to the topic I'd be sharing information on, and time I could spend improving the site could be time I spend improving my knowledge even further.

As for this Lisp scripting site, for all I care the author could've shared the information via a Pastebin site and I would've got the same value out of it.

And this happens regularly! I know of experts in programming languages[0], compression[1], graphics[2, 3], and computational geometry[3] who all have sites that both have excellent content, and look fairly awful.

[0]: http://piumarta.com/index.html

[1]: http://cbloom.com/

[2]: http://iquilezles.org/ (okay, this one doesn't look that bad in retrospect)

[3]: http://paulbourke.net/

[0] and [3] look great, unless you are opposed to simplicity. They kind of follow "brutalism" in a web architecture.

Except that most pastebins would at least make the text more readable than it is there. Especially on mobiles.

Markdown with Strapdown inclusion, a pastebin, a CMS, bare Bootstrap... anything would be more readable than this.

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