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A UserScript to make paulgraham.com essays less of an eyesore

A UserScript to make paulgraham.com essays less of an eyesore

by cbrunnkvist·Mar 8, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

○Pass

CSS makeover for a specific website; no reusable tool or broader utility.

Strengths
  • •Solves genuine readability pain for a beloved corpus of essays
  • •Lightweight approach: CSS+DOM tweaks, no server or dependencies
Weaknesses
  • •Userscript for one person's website; not a product, tool, or platform
  • •Equivalent to a personal Stylus stylesheet; trivial to replicate for any static site
Category
Other
Target Audience

Paul Graham essay readers, writers interested in retroactive design cleanup

Similar To

Stylus/Stylish browser extensions · Custom CSS userscripts

Post Description

UserScript for GreaseMonkey / TamperMonkey:

Adds a browser-independent "Reader Mode" that transports PG's Default Dead tables-pasta website from the year 2006 all the way to 2026, at least...

If you love reading Paul Graham's essays but suffer from Schlep Blindness every time you try to parse his legacy HTML, this script is for you.

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