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David Storey
Personal blog · generatedcontent.orgwebdesign
David Storey writes Tumblr, a personal blog at generatedcontent.org about web and design. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Storey's posts for web typography and personal-website building. The one comment discusses whether justified text works on the web, and points to a post on finer-grained typography.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Generated Content by David Storey: A blog about HTML5, CSS3, SVG, ES5/JavaScript and other open web technologies. Also throws in thoughts about design and general geekery.
What Hacker News says?
> - don't justify text, it doesn't look good It certainly does look good for books and for LaTeX documents though. For the Web the problem is that it requires learning several new CSS properties and learn about some typesetting issues ("rivers" and "ladders"). The following does definitely look very good to me: https://generatedcontent.org/post/44751461516/finer-grained-... We're 25 years in, at some point browsers…
Comment linking /post/44751461516/finer-grained-control-of-hyphenation-with-css4
on “Building a personal website in 2021”Submitted See your site like the rest of the world does. On the Nokia X2-01 as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finer grained control of hyphenation with CSS4 Text as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A List Of Device Screen Resolutions, by OS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted ECMAScript Internationalization API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey -o-, let’s go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Montage and Ninja are released as a story · 2 points
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