Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs the are a joy to read
After ten years I’m working on a redesign of my personal tech blog. I want to look at some other blogs with good modern design. Of course searching for ‘well designed blogs’ or ‘webdesign 2026’ brings up endless marketing listicles. Even after wading through the crap, the advice is focused on advertising and product centric sites, not prose heavy sites with good typography. So my question to you is: What are some of your favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read? I don’t mean the content (though that helps too), but rather sites where the actual experience of reading is pleasant. Think: good fonts, sticky headers (or not), well formatted code snippets, and responsive images. Slide in navbars vs inline table of contents. Thanks, - j
Discussion Highlights (9 comments)
RickS
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.
kyawzazaw
https://www.worksinprogress.news
ktrnka
I like the formatting and readability of https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/28/protestware-for-coding-agents.... though I wish it loaded faster.
b00palicious
Here is a decent collection of some text heavy personal sites. Not affiliated in any way: https://mnmm.xyz/
gustavus
Just finished a series on acoup.blog Must also mention https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
deckplecksetter
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.
realityfactchex
Language Log: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ The simple layout/theme does not get in the way of the reading.
sammygutierrez
https://gwern.net
faizmokh
I like reading Julia Evans blog. Aside from the good writings, I think the typography and the paragraph width fits nicely. https://jvns.ca/