Somebody solved the problem of truncating text with ellipsis in the middle: https://github.com/LalitSinghRana/dynamic-middle-ellipsis
Of course you need to throw React at it! 🫠
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
06.05.2026
Walking
Something different catches my eye, my ear – all my senses – on every walk. I walk through streams of thoughts and feelings and sensations. Today, what first caught my eye was a bird perched on a tree along a path lined with trees and bushes. The song of the bird eased me int...
Announcing Wonders of Web Weaving
If you have ever spoken to me, you may have heard me express a meandering interest in doing something with audio. I think the heart of this interest is that I love conversations and storytelling. I love hearing people talk about the things that make them light up. I love aski...
05.05.2026
BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
• Naty S
Weeknote 2026-W19: Catching Up, Git & Double Link Roundup
Catching up on the /changelog page, trying to learn more Git to fix my Git mistakes, Mother's Day, and XL link roundup for missing last week's weeknote.
Experimenting with a self-hosted mailing list today. It has been on my to-do list for a while to get a basic version going, although I wonder if anyone would prefer email digests.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Bubbles and Gatekeeping - Island in the Net
Telling it like it is.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Top Albums from last.fm on 10/05/26 1, Chet ...
Top Albums from last.fm on 10/05/26
1, Chet Baker, Chet, (9);
2, Michael Brecker Quindectet, Wide Angles, (6);
3, Anouar Brahem, Le Pas Du Chat Noir, (1);
4, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday, (1);
5, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Alone & Acoustic, (1);
Serendipity
The steam of the espresso machine — of focusing in the milk to make sure it is just right, of tapping to remove the bubbles, of preparing. Soft instrumental music plays in the background, more upbeat than the music to which I was listening earlier — easing me more into the da...
I'm an idiot
School
In 1979 I moved up to senior school. School was different in those days before the Margaret Thatcher and Tories gamified (gamification was not a thing in those days but it is what happened) schools. When you left Junior or Primary school (7-11 year olds) you then went...
@MoritzGlantz @ginader @ErikGustafsson @DanielGoransson my plan is to pick you folks up at 8:50 at your hotel. I have space for four people. Would that work for you?
Shelf Source: Tom MacWright | Road Less Read
Shelf Source talks to readers who share books they love on their sites. Today I'm joined by Tom MacWright. Hope you enjoy reading, and do visit their site and say hello! ...
Books I Didn't Finish | Road Less Read
Not every book and I are right for each other or right for each other at this particular moment. Here are the ones I set aside, organized by genre. Perhaps some will get a second chance. ...
Books To Read | Road Less Read
For so long I've tracked books I wish to read via Goodreads alone, despite having a perfectly suitable book blog for the last seven years. I'm remedying that here. This combines my general to-read lis...
Shelf Source: Tom MacWright | Road Less Read
Shelf Source talks to readers who share books they love on their sites. Today I'm joined by Tom MacWright. Hope you enjoy reading, and do visit their site and say hello! ...
To Live by Yu Hua
Some books aren't meant to be enjoyed. They're meant to be survived. Review Written by a Chinese writer who grew up inside the Cultural Revolution, wh...
04.05.2026
Monthly report: April 2026
On the road, as it were, right now, so this report will be updated with the necessaries when possible.
Highlights of the month:
Published a link to Photographs on the main site
Seedlings still having a hard time of it, but other stuff on the terrace flourishing
Sporadic me...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Lazy and Prompt
Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements.
Scott Jehl, tech lead of Squarespace’s Perfo...