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I couldn't help but notice the highlighting of the website is weird. If you start highlighting somewhere on the text then everything except the paragraph you clicked on will be dimmed, and there is a slight background difference on the actual highlighted text.

Gimmicks like this put me off websites straight away.

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I actually thought that was really clever, I often highlight the current section of what I'm reading to help me keep track of my progress, and this certainly helps do that.

Seems like this guy's site is designed more like a portfolio and less like a blog.

Yep, you're exactly right on all points.

I'm still not sure of what I want to do with this website, but for now it's part portfolio, part blog, part experimentation.

I like this approach to selection reading.

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