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• Naty S
Uses: Dependable Services and Tools I Rely On
Discover the tech, gear, and essentials Naty relies on; from hardware, software, and services to daily tools like bags, coffee gear, EDC, watches, and more.
Worth watching, asking, knowing, doing, repeating
I was featured in Dense Discovery’s Worthy Five series, in which participants are invited to share five things that are worth seeing/doing/watching/asking, et cetera. Dense Discovery is among my favourite weekly newsletters. I recommend subscribing!
When I write for other s...
Browser extensions I use
I have been thinking a lot about tech tips lately. How should I document the tools I use or configurations I have that improve my experience using technology? While I think about this, I wanted to start by publishing a list of browser extensions I use.
I use Firefox every d...
Finished the #Skyline50k #trailRace in 9:34:51 yesterday! My 3rd best 50k, and first 50k in over two years since the Marin Ultra Challenge 50k in 2023.It was quite the journey to get back here, and a lot went well in this race. From training to preparing and planning, the tem...
Björn Stierand
• Björn Stierand
about-tonight-what-great-evening
About tonight. What a great evening! 🍻
Coffee conversations
Inspired by Ben, Zachary and Courtney, I’m going to make an offer: join me for a virtual coffee chat! For the next two weeks, I’m going to keep 9am - 11am UK time on Wednesdays (excluding August 6th) and 6pm - 7pm UK time on Thursdays open for coffee chats. We can chat about: ArtPoetryMaking websitesThe future of the webDesigning technologyInterface designYour favourite Taylor Swift songOr just say hello! If you’d like to chat, feel free to email me at readers@jamesg.blog with the time that works best. I’ll send over a calendar and Zoom invite in which we can meet. I look forward to saying hi!
Ideas and insecurity
I have this list of ideas, but would you believe I am insecure about not having enough ideas? I said to a friend recently. As soon as I said it, I realised how direct I had been about a persistent, deep anxiety I have had about coming up with ideas. Another part of my mind re...
The joy of links
Today I have been thinking about how wonderful links are. With a link, I can send a resource to someone that they can immediately open and read. I can share a blog post I wrote, a blog post I read that is relevant, a Wikipedia article, a news story, a collaborative document, ...
Sharing ideas on my website
Having a website encourages me to document, and share, my ideas, especially in prose. Whereas some ideas exist as notes in my notepads, having the medium of a blog post available as a means of expression encourages me to develop some ideas. Through this process, I consider my...
Icon overload and undoing changes
When I am using Notion – a notes tool – on my phone, sometimes I accidentally press a button and my text ends up formatted in a way I did not expect. Notion offers an undo button, except I didn’t know it was there until recently.
There is an icon tray of several buttons, bu...
Experimenting with Ghost
For the last year or so, I have used my static create page to prepare posts for publishing on my blog. The tool generates a file that I can then add to the Git repository from which my site is generated. This workflow works well for posts that are mainly words, but falls shor...
Björn Stierand
• Björn Stierand
just-booked-ticket-for-beyond-tellerrand
Just booked my ticket for Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2025. I'm already excited! 🥳 @btconf
Fanfiction Conversation With Sara Jaksa | Zachary Kai
Over the last two months or about me and Sara have traded questions and answers about fanfiction. Below here is the recording of our exchange. The Questions Zachary: ...
What I Choose To Capture And Why | Zachary Kai
You'll find my attempt at a post with the aforementioned title, as suggested by Zoe Loukia via our post title trade! Read more about the initiative, or contact me if you'd also like to trade! ...
Coming soon
This is James' Coffee Blog, a brand new site by James that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!
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Pattern: Search aliases
When I search for the word “:laugh” in Discord, I see the :rofl: emoji. When I search for “:pumpkin” in Slack, I see a result for the :jack_o_lantern: emoji. The : key triggers an emoji autocomplete interface in these tools. Here is an example of the :laugh phrase in Discord:...
Three quick CSS tips
Setting a 1px solid coloured border makes it easy to see how much space an element is taking up on the page, or what the CSS selector you have written selects. This is helpful in debugging where rules apply on the page. The :target selector lets you select an element whose ID has been targeted. For instance, if you are viewing example.com/index.html#coffee, the element with the ID coffee would be targeted. This is useful for adding a highlight (i.e. a background colour or a border) to the element that the page the user is visiting has linked directly to. Add line-height: 1.5 to text on the page to create more space between lines of text on the page. Learn more about line height.
Delightful technology experiences
My previous blog post on the need for link best practices for Stories, wherein I note some deficiencies with existing Stories implementations on the open web, has me thinking about the opposite end of user experience: what technology experiences or features have been delightf...