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bobbinson commented on Drunk CSS   shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives
culi · 3 months ago
The theme switcher in general is really cool. Especially being able to see and compare the "nude" version. It's like a modern day CSS Zen Garden

https://csszengarden.com/

bobbinson · 3 months ago
I was excited for zen garden but didn’t see anything there that stood out as I was expecting more of a focus on the design rather than the css purist lens. There are some amazing things that can be done purely through css, https://a.singlediv.com/2014-2019/ comes to mind.
bobbinson commented on Drunk CSS   shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives
nilslindemann · 3 months ago
How about, the reader is old and computer illiterate. Being drunk is not needed. For example, here on this site, there is this unused space left and right. I meanwhile scale all websites with such unused space, using Ctrl+`+` to get the font bigger without losing functionality. But this site has an attribute `width=75%` in the outermost table #main, which makes this unused space stay there. So scaling up the font using the mentioned key combination is losing functionality (= less space). Luckily I can tweak that here using a user CSS (`#hnmain {width: revert;}`) but an old computer illiterate will probably have a slight problem. So, don't make your users drunk, just ensure they are, like, 80 and do not have advanced computer skills.
bobbinson · 3 months ago
Not quite 80, but the same premise http://theuserismymom.com/

There is also so much more to designing for low tech literate than spacing. The accessibility guidelines focus so much on UI and being able to see what is there, but don’t focus enough on understanding what can be done with the website/app. Making sure your buttons actually look like buttons is a decent start but knowing that you can press a button, what it will do as the action, and being able to undo it and go back are so so valuable to helping them learn how to engage with sites.

bobbinson commented on Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025   mbh4h.substack.com/p/neur... · Posted by u/keiferski
plq · 5 months ago
Ursula K. Leguin has a thought-provoking piece in this vein about why she wrote sci-fi:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191119030142/http://theliterar...

EDIT: Here's a better link: https://archive.org/details/dreams-must-explain-themsel-z-li...

bobbinson · 5 months ago
I first read this as a foreword to The Left Hand of Darkness and it has completely changed how I read. It’s important to understand that there is an agenda behind every book, not as a bad thing, but as a way to understand and explore how the author thinks and how they have been shaped by the real world that they live in and build from to create.

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