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Comment by phblinn | Hacker News Reader

Just fixed that. It now accommodates cell width.

Unfortunately even on desktop, this is far from a nice experience... https://i.imgur.com/9oPlfkU.png

Just put the content on the page, with each section left to size itself based on however-much content is in it, instead of giving each section its own scrollbar at least?

It's somehow even worse now as the text takes up a third of the screen width and there's so much UI that doesn't tell you what it does.

Looking at your source code, any reason you're doing hand-rolled css, layouts, scrollable divs with main content, inline css?

I remember doing this 15 years ago.

Today this is a problem that was solved dozens of times, from Bootstrap, to Zurb and Tailwind - with productivity, accessibility and variety of devices and screen-sizes in mind.

Your website is unpleasant to use and scroll. It feels you're reinventing the wheel just for the sake of it?

I make my website hand-made too, but because I found those tools to take too long to set up exactly how I want or they're too bulky.

I write my own css for my statically generated website (andrewzah.com). The problem with bootstrap etc is exactly that they’re aimed at being generic. They’re not specific enough to do what I want quite how I want it… and there’s the burden of learning them.

It’s a lot easier to start with a good, semantic html structure and come up with exactly the CSS that one needs, rather than continually fight a system aimed at no one in particular.

Not to mention the bloat of unnecessary CSS/JS that you don’t actually need.

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