There’s still plenty more to come, so please enjoy them until your body just can’t stand the fun!
There’s still plenty more to come, so please enjoy them until your body just...
Designing a mobile-first HTML editor
Writing HTML on a phone is difficult. To write HTML – like all programming languages – you need to use a lot of symbols. The main symbols that you need for HTML are the open and closing angle brackets (< and >, respectively).
On iOS, these are in the tertiary keyboard....
Developing an alt text button for images on my website
Mastodon shows an "Alt" button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image. Here is an example of a post with an attached image that has alt text:
The Mastodon user interface s...
The first star
Under the blanket of the late evening, having been in awe at the beauty of the sunset, I looked to the sky and saw a star – a single star. There are other stars out there, but they are not yet visible. My eyes fixate on the first star, feeling awe at the sparkle in the night ...
Golden
Look at the hills! I remark every week at a particular point on a journey through the countryside. They span for miles, I think to myself. The scene is awesome, in the traditional sense of the word. On a bright, clear night like tonight there is often a slight haze above the ...
Between
On the bus this morning, I listened to an album by Death Cab for Cutie, a band whose music I enjoy. As the songs passed by, I noticed there were occasionally small pauses at the end of a track. A few seconds – no more than four or five – but enough to feel that this pause may...
Most people have to earn their sea legs, but mine are already attached! It’s...
Most people have to earn their sea legs, but mine are already attached! It’s land legs that elude me.
An incremental migration
I recently moved to using Ghost to manage the posts and pages on my website. With Ghost, I now have a user-friendly web interface in which I can format my blog posts and pages. I am especially enjoying the ease with which I can upload images. When I publish a page, a webhook ...
Morning web weaving
This morning I have been doing a bit of work on my website. With a cup of coffee by my side, I have worked on something that I have had on my TODO list all week but haven’t gotten around to: enabling incremental builds for my static website. This feature means that whenever I...
The profit margin on our clothing is so low, no matter how hard I...
The profit margin on our clothing is so low, no matter how hard I work, it feels like I get nowhere!
I’ll let you in on a little secret, OK? THE SUIT IS TAKING OVER...
I’ll let you in on a little secret, OK? THE SUIT IS TAKING OVER MY MIND.
Hey, I can’t be a terrifying symbol of doom, darkness, and despair 365 days...
Hey, I can’t be a terrifying symbol of doom, darkness, and despair 365 days a year, you know?
Dates in notebooks
The first thing I would write in my notebook at the start of a class in school was the date, followed by a title. The date was among the only text that would occupy the margin. Dates helped me find information.
Memories of writing dates in notebooks came to me this week when...
It is done. Done like the past. Tomorrow is here!
It is done. Done like the past. Tomorrow is here!
A foggy morning
When I woke up, the hills outside were mostly invisible through the fog. A thick haze – an autumn fog – enveloped the landscape. In these moments, my mind turns to what is immediately in front of me – the trees. The trees are starting to change colour, I thought to myself. Wi...
Digital, physical
When the Internet Phone Book was released, it came up in several calls I was in. I had a copy of the book on the table next to me so that I could bring it out. Knowing that some people may not have seen the book – or heard of the project – showing the physical copy had signif...
Collaborative web weaving
At last week’s Homebrew Website Club, we had a discussion about making websites collaboratively. The discussion made me think back to the time when several participants all edited the same web page at the same time. The setup was an Etherpad – a web-based collaborative text d...
What is the web equivalent?
Interface design is intertwined with real-world metaphors. Computers save information to files. Files are stored in folders. We can open one or more windows to view different applications. We put files we no longer want into the rubbish bin (trash can). While looking for more...
personal website cards
Last night I went to bed thinking "what if I made business cards for my website". So I spent much of today designing them and cutting them out badly.
My printer is actually a bit messed up right now so the black isn't black so much as weird Cyan. But I like the cheap(?) vibe it gives the cards because it fits with what I kind of imagined for my site redesign, as I described it in a post from a few days ago. I printed them in black (blue-ish) and white and then highlighted each one. I actually used multiple colors to highlight them differently.
I put the paper in the wrong way, the paper has this sort of pattern on one side and now the text's on there and it's a little harder to read.
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The past as more than a mirror
A while ago I read a poem that made me reevaluate how I think about the past; or how we in general tend to approach the past as primarily a resource from which we can draw comfort and knowledge. I'll just show you the poem and tell you what I mean, maybe it's a bit strange.
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