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I love pages like this because this is how the internet used to be. weirder.


What do you mean by weird? The extremely high content-to-style ratio compared to a lot of pages today?


I don't know, if this were a "Top 10 vim tips, number 6 blew my mind" style article I feel I'd engage with it more. Also, show only one tip at a time with pagination so I can learn one thing at a time.


I don't know what the other guy means by weird, but I mean the extremely high your-brain-has-to-operate-like-a-combined-parser-and-compiler to make any sense of that kind of thing. You're telling me you're not dulled into a stupor by trying to read that?


s/used/should/

It's nice to not "read more after the jump" or "below the fold", no over-pagination, no 100% width 400px deep semi-relevant banner image, no pull quotes in 30px ultra-bold fonts floated over to the sides, no "you may also be interested in" and no asinine comments, .. oh, wait!


s/used/used to/


I disagree. This is way to much information for me to digest. I think a happy medium is nice. Enough information on the screen to get the point across but not too little that I have to click everything to find out what I need.


Of course I'm exaggerating, and I agree this page isn't particularly friendly but nor is it intended to be, its a reference to be searched rather than a piece of prose to be read.

A lot of pages I find frustrating are often trying to spin a narrative around what amounts to reference material, or vice-versa & results are often framed with the tropes I mentioned above.


It seems like those could even be two different views into the same material, potentially.


As opposed to the modern trend where there is too much non-information to digest.


Wouldn't you like to know how to do all of this in five easy steps? /s


...That Emacs Users Don't Want You To Know!


If you click on "Tips Home" it gets even weirder. Like the url for "Technical tips" being "make-money-online-tips/", and check the Blogroll.




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