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I just skipped to the bottom of this crap to find the real gem: it's produced with the help of ed.

Yeah, someone working with ed its not going to like 19 repeated leading spaces across lines for vertical alignment. They will like that less than even somebody working with Notepad.

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...the author is using ed scripts as a static site generator, in a way completely unrelated to the post content. People are allowed to do oddball things.

Oddball things lead to oddball opinions. Like: you have to go to the monstrous effort of repeating nineteen spaces into the next line again and again to achieve this aligned appearance, therefore it looks ugly.

That's one way to think of it.

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