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There's something funny to me about the idea that the user-level Git commands are called the "porcelain," as if they were a toilet. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6976506

unrelated: I wish people would stop insisting on using full-width columns to display their blog content because it is nearly impossible to read on a 27" monitor.

Wrap that blog content with a

    <div style='max-width: 65ch'>


> I wish people would stop insisting on using full-width columns to display their blog content because it is nearly impossible to read on a 27" monitor.

There's a noticeable portion of tech people who seem to believe that unused screen space is somehow wasted. No margins + no line breaks is the gold standard to them.

I don't get it, it's unreadable to me.


Dan Luu is famous for this.

I can barely read the page it's so harsh.

eg. https://danluu.com/futurist-predictions/


You don't have to run your browser maximized you know


Please tell me about how you will replace me with a very small shell script next.


Telling someone to change their workflow because a website refuses to deal with larger screen sizes is silly.


The whole point of HTML is to let the client display it the way it wants to. Don't blame the server when you tell the browser to be as wide as possible.


The idea that everyone wraps semantic content in their own UI is ludicrous and does not bear out in the real world. I didn't tell the browser to do anything, it's the website owner's job to ensure their content is legible for small devices up to large devices.

source. Guy who has maintained/maintains many websites large and small.


I think that we have seen that in the real world, not every website is going to support your particular workflow.

So you can be practical, and apply the very simple workaround, or you can continue to tell the void how wrong those people are.

Personally I think that your expectations put unreasonable burdens on websites which may not be run by large businesses with big budgets. Niche forums and blogs run by regular people as a labor of love shouldn't be expected to have to devote a lot of resources to be accepted on the web.


Literally as easy as:

https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

And before you say I should do that myself, again, if you want your work to be comfortable to read for the world, the bare minimum involves legibility.


And will that be future-proof? How do you know?


A completely separate argument (and yes btw, as long as html is supported, these solutions will work.


Citation needed.




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