It's really not a great design. It's just nerdy in a HN way. A great website would list projects in approximate order of importance/notability, would use the tiniest bit of CSS to make the text readable on wide screens, and would have images for projects with a visual component. The only reason his site is appealing is because you already know who he is.

The website of Daniel J. Bernstein is similar: https://cr.yp.to/djb.html

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein

> Great programmers often also have great personal website design, everything is so clear and not one bit of redundance.

It's literally just a list of <p> tags. This is ridiculous. It's running a single sentence across the entire window.

> not one bit of redundance

What about the url on the first displayed line?

Not saying it's bad - got me thinking about this self-reference that most modern websites do with the logo on the header.

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