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Au contraire, it's a lot more readable than your link, because it respects my window size.

It's readable for some subset of people, but on a 32" monitor it's worthless - I tried to read it, but just abandoned it in frustration.

Resize your browser window?

Yeah, but asking readers to resize windows, resize the font, and tweak the CSS to get decent line heights is a bit of cheek when it's trivially easy to implement at least minimally pleasant-to-read typography and layout.

It's a bit shortsighted of a writer to completely ignore the realities of readability. The current layout may conform to some vague idea of purity or minimalism, but that puts form over function in a big way.

Resizing a browser window is hardly as involved as tweaking CSS or browser settings.