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The key paragraph in the article kindly submitted here appears to be below the fold:

"Pirates ship

"To launch on time, we have knowingly held off on finessing certain details and (like you do) decided to suppress a few niceties until after the relaunch. If you spot a quirk in the UX logic, an inconsistency in the design hierarchy, or a curious flaw in the CSS, we are probably working on it."

As announced on my HN user profile, I am updating my personal website (which is seventeen years old, and which I last extensively updated in 1998). I'll party like it's 1999 by reading the new-and-improved A List Apart both on my desktop and with my Nexus 4 phone, and see what I think over a few weeks about how well the new site design responds to the huge range of devices used to acccess websites these days. This should be interesting food for thought.