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This very light grey text on white background = almost unreadable. (Firefox 89 on linux)

Apologies for this -- I apparently failed to test on dark mode in Firefox. I fixed it up just now (https://github.com/grork/personal-blog/commit/b9df1e924ef296...), and should be much more readable.

Much better, thanks!

Reader mode to the rescue! It is almost the default way I consume most blogs and news sites, reading experience is so much better!

Same here. I use it on every other website and it's just great.

"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

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

Edit - ah: I see the author is present. Ok then!

Interestingly, the background is black for me in Chrome, and white in Firefox (both under macOS)

Almost seems like Chrome has some default styles for dark mode, such as a black background on <body>.

Edit: TIL about the color-scheme (draft) CSS property. FF doesn't support it.

similarly, it renders light on black/dark grey for me in safari.

> "Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Something is screwy with the dark-mode CSS.

Yep, it's fine unless you use a dark mode, in which case it looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/7XwxrSb.png

If you're not using dark mode, it's #EBEBEB on #121212, which has plenty of contrast:

https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23EBEBEB-on-%23121212

If you're using dark mode, it doesn't simply do nothing, which would be the reasonable approach with those colors, it gives you that light gray text on #FFFFFF pure white background. It's basically the opposite of dark mode.

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