One web design style that seems to have become unfashionable: external link icons:
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I think it's because links are already distracting, and adding icons doesn't help. An email icon is still handy for mailto: links, as they don't open in the browser.
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I'm still tinkering with the website for my PL experiment. I want the styling to express "labour of love hobby project".
Choosing what program to show on the home page is really hard too. All the keywords are links like Racket.
What do you think? https://www.garden-lang.org/
It's rare to see ANSI escape codes for URLs in the wild, but cargo has it!
This example links to https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#default-profiles, describing the different profiles.
Considering releases vs debug is a source of confusion for new users expecting better performance, this seems wise.
I have a bunch of open tasks on my GH repos, so I tried asking ChatGPT and Claude to write a card-based web UI that showed some random open issues.
ChatGPT gave me something that worked, but the Claude mock-ups look better (and render inline!).