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Unreadable on pc.

The sad part is the page is perfectly readable if you remove the CSS. They took something that was easy to read by default, and made it less readable in an attempt to make it more readable.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

"Ah, this font is a little too large. Let's just zoom out-" https://i.imgur.com/l7Gh3jX.png

Weirdly enough, zooming in actually widens the columns and makes it almost normal looking

Totally agree. The font size is defined as 3% of min(viewport width, viewport height). On my full-screen desktop browser this results in so large text it is unbearable to read. Fiddling with browser window size results in varying font sizes ranging from way too large to way too small to read.

Massive accessibility fail. Font size is one of the few things that usually works fine out of the box with modern browsers across devices of all sizes - unless someone decides to do crazy stuff like defining the font size in relation to the viewport size.

Same here... I tried to zoom out to to make the font size smaller, but it just shrank the column width while leaving the font size the same :(

Shame as I'm interested in the topic, been trying Pulumi at the moment

Fair warning, I’ve been in situations with Pulumi where destroying and recreating a “stack” is the only way to solve little intermittent bugs. Not sure what level of stability you’d want from a tool like this but it made me raise an eyebrow.

I understood it was basically Terraform under the hood...

I have little experience with either, do you find another tool more reliable?

I guess all of these tools are dependent on the consistency of the cloud provider APIs they're working with

We did evaluate pulumi. Our experience was that it basically gives you alternative, more error prone way to create terraform resource graph. Also while they claim to support python, it definitelly feels like second class citizen, it's not very idiomatic (more like almost-literal rewrite from the typescript).

So for time being we are sticking with terragrun&terraform combo.

But the concept of pulumi looks interesting and we will likely re-evaluate in a year or so to see if it has moved in the right direction.

I had to put it into Outline: https://outline.com/S8at4k

Reader mode in whatever browser you're using will help you. That said, you're not missing much by not reading it...

It's quite readable if you make your window size super short and wide, but it's weird that this is even necessary.

Reader mode on firefox rescues it.

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