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Gwern is the person I'd become if I could properly monetize my ADHD and rabbit hole seeking behavior. I absolutely love his website and everything he publishes, and I am always delighted to look over his new stuff. Wish there are more people like him to read from.

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His website is the best designed website I have genuinely ever visited, so fast, easy to navigate and very little blank space which makes it information dense. I also love the inline link opening, I definitely will be implementing that when I make my own website in the future.

>His website is the best designed website

The forced R and L margins suck for people with oldster eyes who have to increase the text size.

Kids these days!

I don't really understand your comment. The size of the margins doesn't really have anything to do with the size of the text. (If we increased the base font size, as we've done a few times already, the margins would probably be kept the same.) If you increase the text size with the standard browser zoom commands like Ctrl-+/-, the margins are not fixed or anything like that, and you will get bigger text & lines.

Yes, with Ctrl+ I get bigger text, but the margins stay the same and make the text flow further down the page so I have to scroll too often to read in a fluid manner. Compare to HN margins, which are smaller and when you enlarge beyond a certain point, the margins get even smaller.

That's odd, because that's not how browser zoom works. I checked in both Firefox & Chromium, and if you zoom in, the margins do get smaller & smaller and eventually go away completely when you reach mobile-mode where the text is edge to edge. (Are you sure you didn't do something like enable "Zoom text only" in your browser settings? That it works 'properly' on HN doesn't mean much because HN uses weird table layout for everything.)

"Zoom text only" was enabled. I checked a freshly installed Firefox and that is not the default so I am unsure how it was enabled, but it was. Thank you so much for helping me solve this!

Glad to hear that. I was worried that you would say you were using Safari. We keep having problems with Safari doing the wrong thing and we don't have convenient access to Safari instances.

I have not seen the page on PC, all I can say is that it works very well on mobile.

Are you perchance able to provide some kind of RSS feed to his website? I'm having a hard time finding his newest stuff. You can subscribe to his newsletters but he stopped doing those two years ago

There is the firehose from his patreon though that might not be exactly what you are looking for. Personally, I just check 'newest' on his frontpage every now and then.

https://www.patreon.com/gwern

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