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Simon Collison
Personal blog · colly.com/articlesdesignwebwriting
Simon Collison's personal blog at colly.com covers design, web and writing. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Used to be our playground (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Simon Collison's personal site, linked on HN as an example of tasteful personal blog design and as a source of footnote ideas in a redesign essay.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to Simon Collison's website. I'm a web and product designer, writer, multimedia artist and musician based in Nottingham.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-24
- Used to be our playground (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-20
What Hacker News says?
Here Simon Collison has tried a decent approach for footnotes: http://colly.com/comments/redesigning_the_undesigned/ Search for "A few Easter eggs"
Comment linking /comments/redesigning_the_undesigned/
on “Telescopictext”Submitted Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design as a story · 58 points
HN discussionDo you know Simon Collison? I was just wondering as both your sites have the same unique theme going: http://colly.com/ Anyway, great site, though I find it rather cluttered with all the oversized text and images. Scale it all down a bit, and it will be much easier to get an overview of what is going on. Good luck!
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on “I'm Everyone, a live, anonymous image/video site (potentially NSFW).”Submitted Used to be our playground (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTasteful: https://colly.com/ Artsy: https://anhvn.com/ Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/ Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/ Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/ Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/ Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/ I have more. You can keep rolling th…
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on “Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?”Submitted Used to Be Our Playground as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor web design, I would recommend against a book. Create a delicious account and start tagging well designed sites as "inspiration". Then steal, steal, steal. http://colly.com/ http://riotindustries.com/ http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/black_and_whi... http://www.weareagoodcompany.com/ http://cssremix.com/visit/giant-peach-design/
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on “Ask HN: Books To Learn Web Design (HTML/CSS/XML/PHP) ”Submitted Stream On as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "We are the explorers" - Simon Collison as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adaptive Systems as a story · 1 points
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