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by technifreak 4643 days ago
This. Complaining about how hard it is to read someone else's website when you use an awful green text on black background is reason enough for me to not take you seriously. It's a Wordpress site, for god's sake, and that is the template you came up with (or chose)? Glass houses, indeed.
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It's a design intended to recall the look of the author's original webpage, which has been on the internet since before the word blog was coined.

The man was a pivotal figure in writing the first modern web browser, it wouldn't kill you to show some goddamn respect.

If Jamie's post had been about literally almost anything else web related, I would concur.
There is a difference, I think, between "I find green on black to be hard on my eyes" and "I can't read the content because it is obscured by ads and popovers."