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MJ, my blog mascot, has the unique ability of being able to balance coffee cups on his head while upside down. This is reflected in a design concept I made last year for my blog. In experimenting with new article layouts, I thought about what it would be like to have MJ stick to the side of the screen as the user scrolled. Then I thought what if MJ rotated!

Here is MJ at the point that proves his magic coffee cup doesn’t spill:

The MJ cat mascot upside down with an arrow pointing at it that has the message “a magic coffee cup that doesn’t spill”. This is the only feature in the sidebar. The sidebar is next to the main article text.

I, on the other hand, regularly spill coffee.

You can view the web page and its source code if you want to take a peek to see how the scroll-based animation works!

After pressing Send on an email to a friend this evening, my email client opened a window which read You wrote “I have attached”, but no attachment has been added. Do you want to send your message anyway?. Without this feature, I would have sent the email and likely forgotte...

I thought I’d try something different and write not about a snippet of my day but the day in full – almost like a journal. I started the day with reading. I’m reading Goodnight Tokyo, a fiction book about a Tokyo taxi driver and the stories of the people he drives around th...

Photography-wise I’ve been fairly unmotivated recently: no posting, no development, no scanning and only taking few photos. But today was finally a good day again: I spent the whole day outside in the sun with the family and friends while shooting two rolls of Foma 100 with my Lomo LC-A.

Zachary and I recently worked on a collaborative writing project in which we prompted each other to share impressions of an artwork of the other’s choosing. Zachary chose a painting for me to write about. I chose one for Zachary to write about. Below is what we wrote. James’...

I had never noticed the sapling with blossom. It was slightly obscured by an old stone wall. The pink made the tree stand out. I have looked in that direction many times, but my focus is usually captured by the gothic architecture or the green trees of spring and summer. Tod...

I was out in the sunset again this evening. I set off a bit later than yesterday. At the beginning of my walk, I looked to the sun – which would not set over the hills for at least an hour – and thought about where it was this time yesterday. I am now thinking about how my g...

Today I’m making public my little film development web app: https://dt.danielpietzsch.com.

I appreciate being out in the sunset I thought to myself on the final stretch of my evening walk. I thought back to all the times during the pandemic when I would go out for a walk in the evenings. Every day, almost without fail, I would be out for a walk, enjoying the last ...

With the warm, sunny weather that we have had recently, I have twice visited a coffee shop in the evenings. A decaf flat white is my order — my standard after 3pm. Evening walks in the sun feel different. The obligations of the day fade away with each step. I enjoy the way ...

This week I received a lot of submissions to airportpianos.org, the index of pianos in airports that I maintain. Submissions come through a Google Form. The form is intentionally brief 1, asking for two pieces of information: the airport name and the location of the piano. ...

Hear me out: a children’s book called “The Tariffalo” 🤔

The article “Secret to stronger pour-over coffee with no extra beans unlocked by scientists“ recently appeared on the front page of the Guardian. The article notes: Dr Arnold Mathijssen, a co-author of the study from the University of Pennsylvania, said pouring the hot wate...

I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)Thank you for your support.#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)

Well poisoned, @heydon! ☺️https://heydonworks.com/article/poisoning-well/

@jasonsantamaria is back at blogging and I’m delighted to hear he decided to give @getkirby a try. 👏
Welcome back and have fun, Jason! 🤗
https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/once-again-from-the-top

I’m currently working on a project where the devs obviously had no idea about how to implement responsive images correctly. It’s a wild mix of faulty media, srcset, sizes, and size(?) attributes on img and source tags that really feels like guesswork. (This is now a 10-year-old technology, btw…)

What's the best article (or video, @kevinpowell? 😁) about responsive images you know?

My favs:
@mdn – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Responsive_images

@eeeps – https://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/

@grigs –
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-images-101-definitions/

A (command line) utility I’ve been using a lot lately is GitUI. It makes all my day-to-day git-related work easy and enjoyable.

Isn’t it astonishing that after all those decades of global trade, there still isn’t a safety mechanism in place that protects the world economy – and our collective wealth – from the damaging effects of one country electing an erratic, ignorant idiot for president?

@kevinpowell And regarding the tab order/source order issue: did you see @rachelandrew‘s super interesting talk at @css__cafe, Kevin?
That might answer a few of your questions – and potentially also bring up new ones, for another podcast episode, maybe? 😉

https://youtu.be/cJiLnN9EUlI?si=BJ4O-ClYS1E_4Ifh