ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
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 ma...
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 ...
February 2024
Mondo Bizarr, two concerts, Kunstakademie Rundgang and carneval. (23 photos)
BurgeonLab: Main Feed Full-Text
• Naty S
GitHub Pages Alternative: SourceHut Builds + Bunny.net
Learn how to replace GitHub Pages with SourceHut Builds, Bunny Storage and Bunny CDN. Set up a CI static site deployment workflow replacing GitHub Actions, with tools like SFTP, Rclone, and Curl using SourceHut’s CI platform running on Alpine Linux.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Shawn Kerri Panel San Diego Comic-Con 2025
I’ve written a bit about and colored the work of Shawn Kerri before. I first learned about her–I believe–from Scott Shaw. Shawn Kerri is a comics creator, cartoonist, musician, punk rocker with an amazing history. San Diego Comic Con 2025 Friends of Shawn Kerri panel Celebrate the work of legendary cartoonist and San Diego local...
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 whe...
BurgeonLab: Main Feed Full-Text
• Naty S
GitHub Pages Alternative: SourceHut Builds + Bunny.net
Learn how to replace GitHub Pages with SourceHut Builds, Bunny Storage, and Bunny CDN. Set up a static site workflow with a complete GitHub migration guide.
BurgeonLab: Main Feed Full-Text
• Naty S
GitHub Pages Alternative: SourceHut Builds + Bunny.net
Learn how to replace GitHub Pages with SourceHut Builds, Bunny Storage, and Bunny CDN. Set up a static site workflow with a complete GitHub migration guide.
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. W...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
I enjoy it when I’m deferring to a surfer taking off from the lineup and they beg off, giving me the go ahead to ride the wave. Happened today and yesterday.
Björn Stierand
• Björn Stierand
Add Open Graph support for link previews
Some (social media) sites render link previews if you paste an URL when creating content. If you don't add the proper tags to your website, most parsers try create some on the fly and fail horribly. So, why not configure your website accordingly in the first place?
The key t...
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 signi...
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 ...
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 mor...