I'm not unaware of Ravenwald's reputation on HN. I've liked some of what he's done myself.
Part of the reason I'm making a bit of a stink about presentation is that 1) this is a technical site, technique is what we discuss, and 2) I'm aware of the tools and capabilities for doing this.
If you've got a system with the tools on it (my tablet, as noted, isn't one), then it is completely trivial to output a usable and useful format.
I do this fairly routinely myself, and on third party sources. E.g., a 1793 document, running 72 pages formatted, which apparently doesn't have a high-quality contemporary formatted version available: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lhw2eq4qmnnwxijlcrfyba
On my desktop system, where it's supported (again, tablet, not), I've written 1800+ CSS stylesheets (most pretty similar and fairly simple), to fix annoyances with sites.
It's not that I can't fix this, if arsed enough to do something about it.
It's that deliberately fucking up presentations is hugely disrespectful to readers. It's why I try to take pains in what I write and style to not fuck shit up. Which is sometimes difficult (client systems are a complete and total shitstorm). But not falling over the low-hanging fruit such as providing mark-ed up rather than rendered text for readers helps a tad.
(And yes, I've ranted at blog editors, magazines, The New York Times, and Hacker News about various foul-ups.)
There's a greater irony, perhaps, in that my own psychological state is giving me a literal headache looking at Ravenwald's presentation here, given its topic. I really don't have the damned spoons for it.
Part of the reason I'm making a bit of a stink about presentation is that 1) this is a technical site, technique is what we discuss, and 2) I'm aware of the tools and capabilities for doing this.
If you've got a system with the tools on it (my tablet, as noted, isn't one), then it is completely trivial to output a usable and useful format.
I do this fairly routinely myself, and on third party sources. E.g., a 1793 document, running 72 pages formatted, which apparently doesn't have a high-quality contemporary formatted version available: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lhw2eq4qmnnwxijlcrfyba
On my desktop system, where it's supported (again, tablet, not), I've written 1800+ CSS stylesheets (most pretty similar and fairly simple), to fix annoyances with sites.
It's not that I can't fix this, if arsed enough to do something about it.
It's that deliberately fucking up presentations is hugely disrespectful to readers. It's why I try to take pains in what I write and style to not fuck shit up. Which is sometimes difficult (client systems are a complete and total shitstorm). But not falling over the low-hanging fruit such as providing mark-ed up rather than rendered text for readers helps a tad.
(And yes, I've ranted at blog editors, magazines, The New York Times, and Hacker News about various foul-ups.)
There's a greater irony, perhaps, in that my own psychological state is giving me a literal headache looking at Ravenwald's presentation here, given its topic. I really don't have the damned spoons for it.
Just sayin'.