Page weight matters

25 points by slab

nickbors

This is my first blog btw, so let me know if you find any errors or have any feedback. Id love to learn more about effective writing tips and such :)

sunflowerseastar

put tldr at top, not bottom
quantumish

There's a decent number of typos throughout the post, so you might want to consider running a spell checker (or you might not - these days it seems like typos are a pretty reliable indicator a human actually wrote the thing...)
- nickbors
  
  Thanks for the tip. I was writing in nvim without the spellchecker on. Good shout.
ratsclub

The only noticeable issue I had was the page having a horizontal scroll on an iPhone 14 Pro screen due to the "triad" links not wrapping.
- nickbors
  
  Yep, mobile is a big mess haha ive told the siteowner some recommended fixes (the justified text also looks horrible for some…)
  - chrismorgan
    
    the justified text also looks horrible for some
    
    Frankly it’s more about the monospace than the justification, though it’s the combination of them that makes it particularly bad. But monospace is simply unsuitable for body text/prose, and always has been—it’s a stylistic choice inimical to readability. I urge you to ditch it; a page’s readability always shoots up when you do so.
    
    slab
    
    I think monospace + justification looks quite cool and unique, although granted, I have set my browser to turn all fonts into the one seen on nh3 so I might be a tad biased.
    
    nickbors
    
    I personally petitioned to use a system font stack to avoid this or at least another font that isnt monospaced for body text. (Plus system font stacks load faster too!)
  - markerz
    
    Congrats on getting into writing! This is a huge milestone and you should be proud! On feedback, personally I can tell I already aligned with your blog post so I didn’t read it thoroughly.
    
    I skimmed your blog post by reading the first and last sentence of each paragraph. A lot of strong writing leads and ends with a good intro and summary of each thought piece like this, and yours does a decent job at it. I appreciate this!
    
    I had trouble with your parenthesis usage. You follow a main thought (with a side thought in paren) quite often and some are a bit long. I recommend keeping these short and minimal. I find it’s easier for me to read side thoughts as independent sentences rather than injections into other sentences in order to maintain the flow of ideas orderly. My brain doesn’t work well with function calls and recursion — it works best following a list of ideas one by one.
    
    nickbors
    
    Thanks you flatter! I’ll keep that in mind for the next post haha. I also prefer imperative programming so maybe it would be nice to apply that here.