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I mean, I can't let this post go uncommented, presented as it is in a style that couldn't be more opposite to my own tastes, a sort of mustard Courier font against a black background, resembling the CRT monitors of yore. Especially when the topic of the post was how that design was achieved for Hugo - a static web development tool I don't use - using Claude. To be sure, the mustard is better than the lime green originally selected, and it is kind of easy on the eyes to read, but there's no way to present images in it without a garish clash of format. And the spacing and text size are actually pleasing to the eye, but only because Courier is not really an easy-to-read font. Opinions on design are strictly my own of course :) and I like the way this is all explained. (p.s. D'Arcy, the map command in the meta author element isn't executed, it's just printed in plain text; see your source).

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