Crummy.com is my favorite blog. Not only for the subject matter but the look and usability.

Subject Matter
The writer has written 3 books on Ruby, a web programming platform. He writes science (or speculative) fiction, cooks with his wife, and plays obscure board and computer games. When all that gets boring he creates amazing trivial tables garnered from Amazon and Imdb.

Look
He uses only one font. Right now there are only 3 images. These are links to his books on Amazon. He has random cool sayings in title tag and under the title. He started this site over 12 years ago and has never seen the need to change the layout.

I found this page many years ago through and I keep coming back because the content is great. I like to think he’s like me if I had a LOT more energy.

Usability
There are six areas and they always fit on the first screen. The top line are his categories, then a line for links to his friends. Below the title section is an archive link, his book image links, and links to past posts on that day. The posts are below that.

That’s it. It’s like great cooking, take great ingredients and leave them alone.