Web dev

Ugly is trendy?

Signal vs. Noise

Garret Dimon

Whitespace

Superfluous Banter

Some of the ugliest sites I have ever seen in my life.

Simplicity is fine, but (almost) total lack of visual design has nothing to do with making sites better. Just uglier. The way these sites look now, they firmly fall in the same category as this guy below.

Jakob’s UseIt.com

Which is far from envious, IMO. At least Scrivs does it intentionally.