<story><title>A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine</title><url>https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_qwfv</author><text>Any food beyond soylent is just unnecessary complexity. Any books beyond reference manuals are just unnecessary complexity. Any interior colors on your walls other than white is just unnecessary complexity. Any music beyond Bach is just unnecessary complexity...&lt;p&gt;Maybe people enjoy aesthetics other than minimalist? Maybe some people enjoy complex things?</text></item><item><author>massivecali</author><text>A great graphic design tip for simple websites is stop using additional files. If you can&amp;#x27;t do it with a single HTML file, you&amp;#x27;re adding unnecessary complexity.</text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&amp;gt; Only one weight (regular) of a font is used, demonstrating that content hierarchy can be communicated without loading multiple typefaces and weights.&lt;p&gt;This point has nothing to do with energy use (or very, very little) but is a really great graphic design tip for those looking to make a site more pleasant to browse.&lt;p&gt;The other weight that&amp;#x27;s not being used in favor of regular is &amp;quot;bold&amp;quot;. Instead of bolding, the font size attribute is changed to establish hierarchy. Faux small caps are also used.&lt;p&gt;From the CSS:&lt;p&gt;h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
 font-weight: normal;
}</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattkrause</author><text>Bach is, quite literally, famous for being baroque, not minimalist.</text></comment>
<story><title>A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine</title><url>https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_qwfv</author><text>Any food beyond soylent is just unnecessary complexity. Any books beyond reference manuals are just unnecessary complexity. Any interior colors on your walls other than white is just unnecessary complexity. Any music beyond Bach is just unnecessary complexity...&lt;p&gt;Maybe people enjoy aesthetics other than minimalist? Maybe some people enjoy complex things?</text></item><item><author>massivecali</author><text>A great graphic design tip for simple websites is stop using additional files. If you can&amp;#x27;t do it with a single HTML file, you&amp;#x27;re adding unnecessary complexity.</text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&amp;gt; Only one weight (regular) of a font is used, demonstrating that content hierarchy can be communicated without loading multiple typefaces and weights.&lt;p&gt;This point has nothing to do with energy use (or very, very little) but is a really great graphic design tip for those looking to make a site more pleasant to browse.&lt;p&gt;The other weight that&amp;#x27;s not being used in favor of regular is &amp;quot;bold&amp;quot;. Instead of bolding, the font size attribute is changed to establish hierarchy. Faux small caps are also used.&lt;p&gt;From the CSS:&lt;p&gt;h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
 font-weight: normal;
}</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sh87</author><text>Poor overly generalized statement there. Point being importance of identifying and addressing complexity as a &amp;#x27;I want&amp;#x27;... not a &amp;#x27;I need&amp;#x27;. Accept it or abhorr it, first recognize it as a complexity.</text></comment>