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My website is ugly because I made it


If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didn’t want good art – she wanted my art. Somebody with good taste could’ve made my website, but then it wouldn’t be mine. To bake

If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. In the past, I just wanted simplicity and friendliness: remove noise, boost contrast, flatten menu depth, boring HTML, reduce CSS, avoid JS, etc. I wanted my site to react to cursor movement without JS; this CSS produced a pleasant “touching grass” feeling:

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