I’ve been meaning to write this for a while. Now over the Christmas period I finally pen some of my thoughts on the sorry state of Hearthstone, one of Blizzard’s biggest new games.
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The FT need to to just one thing on their next site to vastly improve the user experience: increase the size of the headlines relative to story importance.
Just look at this first example today:
The headline is so ridiculously small that even with the standfirst in the first example it only takes up a quarter of the box. This happens all the way down the page. Every headline is the same.
Running on hexo.io!
I’ve had a lot of fun transitioning this from a ghost.org install on a DigitalOcean $5/mo VPS to this Hexo.io static install utilising Amazon AWS’s S3, CloudFront and Route 53 services. Actually all relatively simple too, and gives you a lot more freedom with something like Dropbox to write from anywhere with an internet connection in a pretty distractionless environment of whatever text editor you have open.
I’ll likely be recommending it to pretty much everyone I meet over the next week.
A post I wrote in 2014 following graduating on the student media funding crisis at Queen Mary
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