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In keeping with the HN tradition of off-topic comments about a submission's website design, I'm going to say I love the design of the blog's homepage. I find it very strange that it flows by column instead of by row, but I love the overall newspaper-like layout. I think there is a strange beauty in that chaos, and it's easy to get a birds-eye view of what the author cares and writes about.

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> I find it very strange that it flows by column instead of by row

Years ago I was trying to get it to flow by row, but couldn't figure out the CSS columns stuff, and then realized I like the column flow, because it surfaced older content next to new content, which I think is what I'm going for (think/write about the things I find most timeless).

I can confirm it totally worked in that sense at first glance, but it comes at the cost that I’m still going to browse chronologically, so I’m going to have to go up and down a lot.

If you resize your browser window to be 1 column (or use mobile), then you can go in 1 direction.

Thanks for mentioning it - I wouldn't go and see that otherwise

It does look great!

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