That 'reveal' is definitely overkill - in a world where shaving off 10s of milliseconds in load time helps engagement, adding 100s of milliseconds of unnecessary pause before content does seem a little silly.

That said, 'has javascript' is a reasonable assumption for most websites these days. Most people outside the HackerNews echo chamber wouldn't dream of turning it off, but then I suppose this blog is aimed at the HackerNews audience (among others).

Thanks for your comment. I'll fix this.

Just changed the blog theme - it now works perfectly with JS disabled - serious, huge thanks for telling me this, I wasn't aware of that issue.

Many thanks for your comment. You are totally right.

This is a theme from the Hexo platform I use.

I'll probably create a theme to address this and other issues.