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Frances post Highlights of my week has inspired me to write a list of things I love and that bring me joy. I have done this before but I thought it would be fun to write another list. I encourage you to write one, as well. You can keep it private if you want – it’s the writi...

Ahhh, yes. Haven’t seen this in a long time. That’s a mistake. So good from start to finish.

👍 Recommended!

I stand at the bookshelves — art and Nature and biography and memoir — and ask myself what story I want to tell. What do I want to write? What I do know is I want to write something. And so I begin. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ My adventure began with zines. I packed four zines to read: three p...

If any of your communities use Slack, especially the “free” version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your “Slack team” to their “PRO” version (for 30 days).In the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like:“PRO: Your team is on a free trial”Thi...

Went for a bike ride and pondered a fitness problem. If I am getting fitter, and I am, how come Apple Health says my cardio fitness is going down?

https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/back-on-my-bicycle

#bicycle #fitness

⏱️ 02:17 total (1:40 actual) ⇄28.9km ⌀17.2km/h ↗109m ↘?m At last, the weather was cool enough to go for a bike ride at a reasonable hour. I stopped early on at the still new park along the river for coffee and a bun to fortify me. There was a gaggle of cyclists alr...

Further to yesterday’s post about improving this site’s performance, one of the lead developers of Grav was able to diagnose the problem. Turns out its an unruly plugin. Disable it, and rebuilding the site takes 2–3 seconds, versus the 15 minutes I was experiencing. Trouble is, that plugin’s author is less than responsive, so I’m not inclined to raise another issue or submit another PR. The developer did suggest an alternative, which I’ll try, but for now I am going to disable the plugin before updating the site and see what difference that makes.

Later: Confirmed. The rebuild is essentially instantaneous. I wonder what will happen when I re-enable the plugin after uploading this addendum.

Later still: What the heck. I asked Claude for help fixing the problem, and it seems to have worked. Still undecided whether to create a PR given the lack of interest.

Piqued by Peter’s recent post on Core Web Vitals I decided to submit my own home page and a post to PageSpeed Insights. The results were not perfect, but perfectly satisfactory; 99, 98, etc. But there is a bigger problem behind the scenes. Any time I change anything at all o...

I love reading, and then day-dreaming, about the kind of cycling infrastructure I’ll never get to enjoy, like these cycling bridges in Limburg, BE. Time was when I used to visit Leuven, but never with a bicycle.

https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/09/five-striking-cycling-bridges-nearby/

#bicycle

Our team at @tollwerk designs for screen and print, and I couldn't find a tool that checks whole palettes for accessible #contrast in both. So I built one: https://pairette.tollwerk.de

It checks palettes against #WCAG 2, #APCA and DIN 32975, handles translucent colours, builds tone scales evenly spaced in contrast, keeps palettes in a URL and speaks Design Tokens.

It's still very young. I'd love for you to play with it and tell me what you think! 🙏

#a11y #accessibility #design

The feeling of fresh air after having been in an art gallery — the feeling of the natural light after being in a room without windows and also a room with many windows, windows through time and to the feeling of home and to impressions of Nature — to the sea and the sky, the...

This week I was writing a story and noticed something strange: I didn’t give the document a title, but, after saving it, the document had a title that I did not expect. If I don’t have a name for a story yet, or if I am doing free writing, I will often not give a document a ...

This morning the postman rang the bell. That usually means one of two things: something I ordered has arrived or someone sent me something. This time it was the latter. A small package from Australia. Inside was Shaun Tan’s new book, Hometown. There was a little handwritten ...

Today’s #WASSUP tip: Turn on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in your Firefox Preferences. Advanced Settings. Custom: Always use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior. [x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn’t available.There are both security and privacy reasons ...

Hm. I probably expected something different from this movie. Both thematically and visually. It certainly has its good (and funny) scenes. The main character is very likeable. And the tongue in cheek references to slashers are good, too. But the story was weird and too meta for my tastes. And visually this was all over the place, and I was partly really turned off by the CGI and the kitschy landscapes. So, not quite my cup of blood.

I stand under a warm autumn sun and look back and see a dark cloud, seemingly resting still in the sky. I know it is moving — getting slightly closer. But yet the day is still beautiful. There is light to appreciate.

After spots of rain, the cloud blew away and the blue in the sky where there was grey marked a new beginning.

The nineteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 19, I chat with Daniel, the author of melonking.net and maintainer of the Melonland community forum about, among other things, longevity on the web, the 'web revival', the creative potential of the web, and more.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Happy #8bitday!And happy Progammer’s Day! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day) — one of the rare annual ordinal date observations, based on the day of the year, rather than day of a specific month of the year.Piano Day is another, celebrated on the 88th day of the year:* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day* https://tantek.com/2024/088/t1/world-piano-day-ordinal-date-iso-8601Do you know of any other annual ordinal date observances?Besides New Year’s Day of course.Previously, previously:* https://tantek.com/2025/257/t1/happy-8bitday-255-bytes-max* https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byte (more previous posts there)#ProgrammersDay #ordinalDate #dayOfTheYear #ordinalDateObservance #annualObservance #annualEvent