Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
The most over-engineered blog that I know of is Casey Muratori's at <a href="http://mollyrocket.com/casey/" rel="nofollow">http://mollyrocket.com/casey/</a> . "View source" and you'll see a long list of auto-generated variables and function calls, unlike anything else you've probably seen for any website.<p>Casey attempts to explain what he did in a podcast[1]. Apparently, he was frustrated enough with CSS's margins that he built a layout engine in C that calculates offsets for every piece of text in the page, then generates hundreds of lines of Javascript that apply fixed positioning to arrange the text.<p>[1] transcript: <a href="http://mollyrocket.com/jacs/jacs_0004_0010.html" rel="nofollow">http://mollyrocket.com/jacs/jacs_0004_0010.html</a>