- S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off

- A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something

- opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about everything and my life is too short to be reading all that

- these are the S-TIER ones on my system

- https://growingswe.com/blog

- https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

- https://mlu-explain.github.io/

- https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html#firstPage

- https://svg-tutorial.com/

- https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables

- these are the BEST of the BEST, you ll be blown away opening each page is how good they are. i am thinking of creating a bookmark manager that uses my criteria above and runs across every damn blog link ever posted on HN to categorize them as S-TIER, A-TIER, opinion and so on

Tasteful: https://colly.com/

Artsy: https://anhvn.com/

Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/

Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/

Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/

Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/

Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/

I have more. You can keep rolling the dice on https://indieblog.page/random and eventually you'll stumble across some pretty sites. Usually the nicest ones are from frontend / design engineer types of people. EDIT - oh and the sites in the internet phone book! https://internetphonebook.net/ as well as browsing screenshots at https://personalsit.es/

- https://henry.codes/

- https://www.fev.al/

- https://hugo.blog/

I just like this type of typography.

One I like is Tom Macwright’s blog [1], which somewhat famously loads insanely fast thanks to having a sort of the web equivalent of a brutalist design while still looking nice [2].

[1] https://macwright.com/

[2] https://macwright.com/2016/05/03/the-featherweight-website

https://www.joshwcomeau.com

I prefer simple designs.

Steph Ango's website comes to my mind: https://stephango.com/ramblings

I guess I also really like my own: https://bryanhogan.com/

I also realised writing this, 3 other pages I wanted to share didn't include a blog (1. https://www.yasmins.site/projects 2. https://www.alasdairmonk.com/ 3.https://glenn.me/ ).

Very artsy but also nice: https://www.nicchan.me/about/

The typography in Maggie Appleton's blog is unparalleled

https://maggieappleton.com/

https://lynnandtonic.com/ is really well-built and has a distinctive style. Recommend checking it out!

One of my personal favorites: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com

https://onethingwell.org comes to mind

https://web.archive.org/web/20170608203825/http://onethingwe... - used to be slightly simpler and less colourful.

There might have been few more such blogs over the years but this one has stayed in memory long after I stopped going to it and eventually it stopped (sort of). It was not just the design but also the simplicty of the conent and being very accessible.

This isn't a blog, but more than 20 years ago I saw a Flash web game which I've always remembered as the most beautiful piece of interactive online content I'd ever seen.

It took a while to find it again... (I searched Google images until I found a screenshot that looked right.) Somebody archived it and resurrected it with Ruffle. (It looks better if you go to "Full Screen" mode.) But the aesthetic was just incredible...

I give you -- "A Murder of Scarecrows."

https://www.gamesflow.com/jeux.php?id=2062366

Not sure if it counts as “most beautiful”, but I spent a lot of time tinkering with my own blog UI and interactions:

https://simonaking.com

Ah darn, someone already mentioned Maggie Appleton's website. It's simply gorgeous.

https://allaboutberlin.com is optimised for readability and ease of navigation. That's what a website should do, although I love when bloggers use their own art in the designs.

There are some great looking websites here! I like https://vmfunc.re/

https://simonsarris.com/

I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to get some feedback on mine: https://ayman.eldidi.org/articles/unicode-identifiers/

While this might be pushing it, some have had blogs on it.. but, I will love the UI.

https://www.yourworldoftext.com

Mine is pretty cool looking: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2026-02-26-alpaka-elements-t...

Maybe not the best, but I like the direction Luke Smith takes with his site: https://lukesmith.xyz

I like minimal UI so https://szymonkaliski.com/ is my absolute favorite.

I’m not sure about “most beautiful”, but I’m particularly proud of my own site:

https://bryson.cc

Shoutout to my own: https://www.tyleo.com

I think Eric Meyer's is a nice one:

https://meyerweb.com/

The amount of people promoting their own LLM generated blog has derailed this thread

https://danluu.com

i recently did a overhaul of mine and I love it, i think can compete with the best https://chetangangappa.me

I quite like this one: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

Although it is a bit slow to load sometimes.

I have been having a great time using Astro with https://github.com/lucernae/astro-blog-template . Looks modern and minimal, but not too minimal which i despise. On the technical side of things, Static Site Generation is perfect for small blogs, so after some tweaks I got its loading times down to milliseconds! Here's the blog I came up with: https://blog.cellutils.com/

I just finished building mine! https://gpeake.com

* gwern

* lesswrong

I’m disappointed to see how few of these sites contain a link, or at least one I could find easily, to an RSS feed.

This is rage-bait. Everyone knows discussing design will just end in someone mentioning Hitler :D