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by knighthack 533 days ago
I knew he was a world-class engineer the moment I saw that his site didn't bother with CSS stylesheets, ads, pictures, or anything beyond a rudimentary layout.

The whole article page reads like a site from the '90s, written from scratch in HTML.

That's when I knew the article would go hard.

Substantive pieces don't need fluffy UIs - the idea takes the stage, not the window dressing.

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I wonder what he uses, I noticed the first paragraph took over a second to load... Largest Contentful Paint element 1,370 ms This is the largest contentful element painted within the viewport. Element p
Looks like it loads all the Google surveillance without asking. Should IP-block the EU.
Glad to know I was a world class engineer at the age of 8, when all I knew were the <h1> and <b> tags!