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by mcint 19 days ago
The overriding of click behavior is quite annoying. 30 years of browser user-agent behavior.

Next, Vercel, already handle this correctly. It takes special effort to violate "least surprise" here. Cmd-click on a link, should open it in a new tab.

It does appear to be an issue with SimpleAnalytics, now Adobe's,

    onclick="saAutomatedLink(this, 'outbound'); return false;"
Free debugging of how the site tweaks, breaks, the 30 year consensus web standard behavior.

Good sites, good blogs, *don't override onclick for links.* Or handle it correctly. I'll leave an issue on the github.

Between your footer, and dotfiles repo, OP does seem to appreciate standards & norms, in principle.