Clicking on the article on that site gets me back to the HN link.

I guess that's just a landing page with links to articles he wrote, but doesn't host himself? Strange.

And it really is ugly right now with the spotted background and slightly rotated links.

Is he aiming for the "I just discovered a new feature and so need to use it" vibe? Like when someone makes a PowerPoint presentation and now uses the completely over the top transitions across slides?

But design is subjective, and if you're doing something in your free time, you better enjoy it! So if he has fun making that ugly thing, great ( • ‿ • )

the background looks a lot like an old geocities page to me so I have to assume it's a fashion choice

And the original linked article actually links at the bottom

> Taylor Troesh is mayor of taylor.town, author of scrapscript, and connoisseur of crap.

And on taylor.town is a link to the magazine article which they contributed.

Each of the blog screenshots has a caption like this:

> taylor.town in 202x

The fact that people can’t see beauty in a thing like this feels to me like people looking at a field of flowers and calling it ugly for all the ways it doesn’t look like Disney Land.