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Lesswrong for both sidebars: the heading based TOC on the left, and the margin notes on the right: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bJ2haLkcGeLtTWaD5/welcome-to...

For interactive / code snippets Maxime Heckel: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-study-of-shaders-wit...

Honorable mentions Maggie Applebaum https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment Marek Chotoborski https://zanlib.dev/blog/number-inputs-in-react/

Line width, sane fonts, avoiding clever shit unless very polished, gets you a long way.

I like reading Julia Evans blog. Aside from the good writings, I think the typography and the paragraph width fits nicely.

https://jvns.ca/

https://gwern.net

I like the design of https://dbushell.com/blog/

Though mainly I just like the general 50s aesthetics of it, rather than specific UI elements.

Here is a decent collection of some text heavy personal sites. Not affiliated in any way: https://mnmm.xyz/

https://computer.rip/

One of my favorites.

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ - book design adapted for web

https://practicaltypography.com/ - tons of practical advice on typefaces and text-based UX

https://harmful.cat-v.org/ - more of a "website-style" layout than the above two

Language Log: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

The simple layout/theme does not get in the way of the reading.

https://www.worksinprogress.news

https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku.htm

Explanation of Sudoku in APL. Lots of information, absolutely no clutter. Entire page is nothing but text in a single precise sans-serif typewriter font, the same size and strength for everything: headings, explanation, code, and tables. Typewriter font includes mathematical symbols.

Anything here: https://bearblog.dev/discover/

This one looks good to me. https://matklad.github.io/. Coincidentally the author has recently posted about CSS for blogs https://matklad.github.io/2026/06/04/css-unavoidable-bad-par....

I have my own blog, but I'm unhappy with its design as well; therefore I'm not sharing it. Nevertheless, I find particularly challenging two things: 1. Make tables readable from a smartphone. There are a few tricks which allow you to make a responsive table. However, those tricks implies that you use <ul> or <div> instead of <table> which defeats the point of having a table. 2. I had an article where I needed to put a tiny mind map. Eventually I put it as a picture, because the solutions to draw a mind map with JavaScript made the page as twice as heavy.

Not tech related but I'm a fan of https://acoup.blog/

https://zed.dev/blog (somewhat quirkier, sidebars)

https://tailscale.com/blog (overall clean)

https://arun.is/blog (sidebar, colors)

https://www.vitsoe.com/us/voice (general feel)

https://github.com/TryGhost/Headline (interesting article header, open source)

surprised this isn't top

> https://ciechanow.ski/

I’ve gotten a few emails complimenting the format of this post below. It’s got fragment-links that scroll and highlight the corresponding part in the code snippet.

https://ericfortis.com/blog/freebsd-jails-network-setup

https://sites.gatech.edu/alexburgin/on-self-respect-by-joan-...

Dramatic sepia photograph contrasts with understated gray text on light gray background with lots of empty space.

I like the formatting and readability of https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/28/protestware-for-coding-agents.... though I wish it loaded faster.

I think the website of James Sinclair has some great typographical choices, see the colophon for details: https://jrsinclair.com/about/

https://www.datagubbe.se/short/

Header, body, trailer panels with three complementary background shades that soften the large black sans-serif typography.

commenting so i come back here at some point and read some of the blogs people are suggesting. I pretty much haven't found any text-heavy blogs that I enjoy anymore.

I really like https://dynomight.net/

Just finished a series on

acoup.blog

Must also mention

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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