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1. minimaxir · 1790268018 · focus · HN ↗

   I recently redesigned my own blog (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minimaxir.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minimaxir.com) during some experiments into how well modern LLMs can be conditioned into not outputting the stereotypical telltale designs of web vibecoded slop; it worked well enough (although more difficult than expected) and &quot;how to design a website using agents that doesn&#x27;t look like an agent made it&quot; might be a fun topic for a blog post as there were a few gotchas.

   The main reason I did the redesign is because my blog is running Hugo + PaperMod theme, which is becoming too popular and it makes blogs no longer stand out. There were also a few features&#x2F;shortcodes I wanted added (better video support, better sidenote support, etc) that give me more tools for blogging.

   1. shimman · 1790270361 · focus · HN ↗

      How is your site not an example of your stereotypical web design? No unique design choices, no unique color palettes, just one single column for content with massive amounts of white space; it looks like any other generic dev blog.

      1. minimaxir · 1790270687 · focus · HN ↗

         Stereotypical modifies &quot;vibecoded slop&quot;, not web design in general. As someone who has worked with blog coding for over a decade and attempted to actually do unique design choices, it is a generally bad idea to do so unless you have both a) a good design sense and b) analytics to test such that your unique designs don&#x27;t actually make things worse. Blogs have converged to a one-column layout for a reason.

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