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Comment by timw4mail | Hacker News Reader

Why do I have to click a link to read the article? I don't understand why it's a thing to add a "fold" to a web article.

More on topic, this does seem like a decent overview.

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Sorry about that! The SVGs are a bit on the heavy side and the various social preview crawlers didn't appreciate it.

Hey, I really like the animated diagrams in your posts. Could you share a few tips about how you create them?

Thanks! I use Inkscape to create the SVGs and then animate them with javascript and greensock. I still haven't quite found the right layer of abstraction for this, so it is a tedious process that takes a lot of time. Once I do, I might release a tool that will help with it.

Would a `<details>` block also work?

I'm not sure. Wouldn't the webcrawler still have to load it?

I put my heavy blog content on BunnyCDN. It’s impossibly cheap. I’m happy to pay a few quarters if a blog post happens to blow up.

Ahh so it was an informed choice. I understand. But Hacker News doesn't do previews anyway :)

Not a design/advertising guy, but often times I think it's to be able to display an ad at the bottom without the user to fully read the article, and without putting it ahead of the article (which is ugly IMO).

Here though I don't think it's the case.

There are no ads on my blog and will never be. That's a promise :)

That is why you are a poor dev :-)

Ads on dev blogs pay peanuts, if that. It's a way to stay poor.

Yeah a direct link would have been better: https://www.poor.dev/blog/terminal-anatomy/

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