Browser zoom works fine for me. Does it not for you?

The page fights against zooming by reducing the text size to compensate.

I can zoom in somewhat only if I press Ctrl + fast enough many times in succession, but then it is easy to overshoot.

Interesting, when I zoom in to 300% the T in TLDR is exactly 3x taller than when at 100%. Seems to be an embedded Google Doc though so the canvas does a weird recentering jerk on viewport size changes.

Zoom works until the page width is about the browser width. After that it starts fighting your zoom level.

The author is actually one of the most prominent and respected people in this space.

> making your article force a tiny, fixed, unchangeable font size seems like a good way to convince people that you should be nowhere near text rendering infrastructure

You may want to see who you are taking about: https://behdad.org/

actually read the very beginning where it's clear why he's using this google doc thingy which the bad text...