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Spencer Schoeben
Personal blog · netspencer.comstartupscareer
Spencer Schoeben's personal blog at netspencer.com covers startups and career. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal site of Spencer Schoeben. Its only comment is general advice on minimal personal-site design in an Ask HN thread and does not discuss this site's writing.
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.
Spencer Schoeben is the founding engineer at Delphi. A problem solver at heart, and a dad. Previously Capital, Untapped, Magma, and Integral.
What Hacker News says?
The best way to design a personal site is go minimal - bare minimum. But problem is you need a designer to handle white space well. Non-designers fear it (yes the blank canvas is white space) So just go with one column layout. Use Georgia, seif; typeface stack. Use variations of size and italics to differentiate high-lites. Use shades of gray. Don't make it wider than 1000px. Bonus Tip: Keep line height of text (css…
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on “Ask HN: When designing a personal site, how to get through creative-block?”Submitted My Tribute to Steve Jobs as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Left Teens in Tech as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted You should be your own technical cofounder as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I think Stamped will be useful while Oink will just create more noise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gain a user’s trust as a story · 1 points
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