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You don't really have to make it look "current" to make it better. I think a good example is antirez blog: http://antirez.com/latest/0

It's clean, very simple and renders fine in everything, even mobile. No distracting content, proper font and font spacing.

It's actually very problematic from an accessibility standpoint. The entire text of each post is a single pre tag which makes it almost impossible to use with a screen reader. This is exactly why there were complaints about fancy style on websites; it often ruins the structural markup of a page.

And has terrible contrast on the main page content's text making it hard to read if you have poor eyesight, poor light conditions or a poor monitor.

This would probably fail a basic Universal Accessibility test based on that alone.

I don't like low-contrast sites, but on my monitor that one is stark black-and-white. In fact there are no CSS rules for the color, and the font stack is "Inconsolata, Courier" so I don't know what the issue could be.

Not seeing what you're describing either.

It's black and white on my MBP (Chrome). Maybe your browser is the one messing it up.

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