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Sijmen Mulder
Personal blog · sjmulder.nlprogrammingweb
Sijmen Mulder's personal blog at sjmulder.nl covers programming and web. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Text-Only Websites”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site's textonly.html page, a curated list of text-only websites that commenters cite as a directory of sites that load almost instantly. Commenters don't discuss the author's own writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Text-Only Websites13 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2017-09-27
What Hacker News says?
> I long for a curated list of such sites. Text only websites - https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html (Disclaimer: The author has kindly included couple of my websites in the list).
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on “How I Experience Web Today”Submitted Text-Only Websites as a story · 302 points
HN discussionSome more lightweight old-fashioned internet portals other than the ones mentioned before: https://marijnflorence.neocities.org/linkroll/ https://neonaut.neocities.org/directory/ https://webring.xxiivv.com/ https://dreamwiki.sixey.es/welcome.dream/ https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://www.cameronsworld.net/
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on “How I Experience Web Today”Submitted Windows 11: a survey of text boxes as a story · 125 points
HN discussionYeah, I emailed Sijmen Mulder to have my blog listed on his excellent text-only blog list: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html They all load almost instantly.
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on “Medium is not the home for your ideas”Submitted Hyperlinked Text – Directory of Text-Only Websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI maintain a similar list at https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html Like the GitHub repo it's still very short but I'll add more sites as I find them.
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on “Text-only NPR”Submitted Hyperlinked Text: directory of sites that stick to simple, marked up text as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might enjoy my small list of lightweight websites here: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
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on “The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text”Submitted Type IDs in C++, a hack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI see the usefulness of spans, but I'm not sure if they fit well with the C model. Consider these cases: void foo1(char *p, size_t sz); void foo2(char p[2]); If I understand correctly, your proposal applies to the first case. The two arguments could be reduced to one, which is currently not possible for the general case without generic or template structs, but that alone would in my view not be worth introducing fat…
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on “Span<T> in C#”Submitted An app is not a blank canvas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am not a sports follower, but the site is very nice. It is a very nice quick goto when some friends start talking sports and I can pretend I care :) My favorite sites are: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://text.npr.org/ Plus gopher and gemini :) Thanks
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on “The beauty of a text only webpage”Submitted Using FFmpeg for Advent of Code visualisation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMaybe one of my favorite examples https://plaintextsports.com/ Another well known one and particularly interesting since it's one of the most valuable companies in the world and this is their real website and not something they've just kept for historical purposes or something. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website i…
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on “The beauty of a text only webpage”https://sjmulder.nl/en Currently completely static and handwritten HTML (except the generated download indices) but I do intend to add some sort of publishing thing to it at some point.
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Also worth checking: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://danluu.com/
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on “A Love Letter to Personal Websites”I've made a little list of some text-and-hyperlink websites that I like: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html It also includes 'lite' variants of some news sites and such. A great reprieve from the heavy, popup and overlay infested web.
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on “A Love Letter to Personal Websites”Also of interest, since text usually means minimalist: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816 )
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on “Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?”Location: Amsterdam area, Netherlands Remote: no Willing to relocate: no Technologies: generalist, but most experienced with Swift, C# and Objective-C. (Also JS/React/etc but I don't fancy working in that area primarily.) Résumé/CV: https://www.sjmulder.nl/files/sijmen-mulder-cv-hn2016.pdf Email: ik+hn@sjmulder.nl So far I’ve mostly been involved with iOS as well as web front- and back end, but I have very broad int…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)”I'm trying to assemble a list: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html but so far there aren't many sites like this that I found useful.
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on “Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off”https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
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on “Ask HN: What are some of the best text-only websites?”I’m keeping a list here: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textielhandel.html There’s not that much out there, unfortunately.
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on “Ask HN: What are some of the best text-only websites?”https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
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on “Ask HN: News.google Alternatives?”Here’s some lists of text-only websites: * https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html * https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/
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on “He was 'creatively dead.' Then he harnessed the power of boredom”If you're the author of this site, please consider toning down the number of sticky elements on the page. This is not a good experience: https://sjmulder.nl/i/rubygarage.png
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on “What’s the Best Tech Stack for Mobile App Development?”
