To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.

I think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this

I'm sorry. I looked at this website, and he explicitly blames me and my people for controlling and destroying the country (and the World Trade Center) and wants me destroyed. I can't look away from that. It's sad that that's OK on Y Combinator's Hacker News, but at least I know what I'm dealing with here.

If you interpreted this thread as an endorsement of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists then I think you ought to re-read it. To restate in case it is unclear: the original author of the page turned out to have hateful views, but it needn’t reflect at all on the homage that jtwaleson made and they shouldn’t feel bad about it.

He's clearly an insane person. There's no use getting worked up about what some digital hobo is screaming.

I don't think you should feel bad for admiring his work. I'd hesitantly say that he may have some mental troubles and we should rather feel bad for him, which I personally do, sincerely. It's like how many admired TempleOS.

Whew, "some" is putting it lightly.

When trying to recreate the site in HTML5, how did you not notice the big "SOL" button on the flash page linking to his blog about how the Jews did 9/11 and other nonsense?

See my other comment. I gave it a cursory look and ignored it and I'm not sure what I feel about that. I agree with some others in the thread and try to look at the "art" separately from the "artist".

I can assure you that I do not support this.