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Out of curiosity I asked Codex to build a version of this article that can be read/scrolled in a normal way while preserving the original graphics/text. Codex built it in about 10min with GPT-6.1 Sol High (consumed 8% of my 5h quota). It even thought of adding a dark/light mode switcher which is useful too. It still needs a few prompts of minor polishing, but already more readable to me.

Or you could just save all that time and effort and scroll through it like a reasonable person.

If you use Reader View in your browser, its much easier to read.

I'm absolutely sure I don't like it, and I'm reading it on desktop.

Only made it a couple of "pages" in and had to close the tab entirely because of the convoluted animated presentation.

None of it felt like it was in service of anything other than screaming "look how neat this is!" which is just terribly distracting.

I personally hate all sites that hijack my scroll wheel for animation purposes.

On desktop it is very difficult to read.