The Principle of Scannability
Good web design allows users to scan a page quickly to find what they’re looking for. Long blocks of text can be intimidating. Marginalia, or sidenotes, help break up the text and provide quick summaries for the reader.
This system works by using a Jekyll include. The include tag inserts a small piece of HTML into the final page. Our CSS then sees this new HTML element and uses a Grid layout to position it in the left-hand column, next to the paragraph it’s associated with.
On mobile devices, a two-column layout doesn’t work well. Our CSS includes a special rule called a media query. If the screen is too narrow, it automatically switches to a single-column layout and styles the sidenote as a simple, indented quote above the paragraph.
Book Notes
Here you can find summaries and notes on various books.
“I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.” - Sam Bankman-Fried