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with words, wonder
13 Apr 2025 • James' Coffee Blog

Morning CSS

Before leaving the house this morning, I decided to work on my website. I have 15 minutes before I leave, maybe I can fit in some web weaving.

I worked on the mobile navigation bar. For a while, I have thought that the reading experience could be improved. There were lots of links; all the links were text. Last night, I reduced the number of links and this morning I added icons.

I was writing CSS down to the wire. If I didn’t finish on time, I would miss my train. I had done some experimentation in the evening so I was as ready as I could be. But I didn’t have time to set the spacing between elements.

By the time you are reading this, the mobile navigation bar will have a new, more focused design, with icons to differentiate links!

Why are there no movies where a character has to write CSS in a hurry? To whom do I write to propose such a plot feature?

Manton Reece
13 Apr 2025

Back in Austin, down at St. Edward’s for Staple! Amazing that the first show was 20 years ago. Got to meet Kazu Kibuishi and pick up the final Amulet book.

Scripting News
13 Apr 2025

I keep beating the drum about Bluesky. Their story says they know they need to be replaceable. But until they deliver on replaceability, it's a 5-alarm fire because of what happened with Twitter. It should not have been possible to acquire Twitter's user base. In hindsight we know it could have been avoided. And it can be avoided by Bluesky, but my guess is the last thing they want is to be replaced. If they really meant it, we could make it happen in a few weeks, and then we could build some really incredible systems, starting in late May, early June. I really believe that. Next journalist that interviews them should ask about this. Thanks for listening.

Ben Werdmuller
13 Apr 2025 • Ben Werdmuller

Notes from Perugia: journalism, values, and building the web we need

We can own the platforms that support us

Ben Werdmuller
13 Apr 2025 • Ben Werdmuller

Notes from Perugia: journalism, values, and building the web we need

As I write this, I’m flying home from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. Now in its 19th year, it’s an annual meeting of newsrooms, journalists, and news professionals from all over the world. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was blown away by ...

Scripting News
13 Apr 2025

Developers: This is the WordPress API. Compare it to AT Proto and ActivityPub. It's got a lot of advantages. It does the basics of social media. It scales, is mature, stable, and well-managed. A stronger, stable, more broad and better foundation imho to build on than the others.

Adactio
13 Apr 2025

Paying it forward

For the past couple of years, myself and Jessica have been going to the Belfast Tradfest in the Summer. It’s an excellent event with great workshops, sessions, and concerts. And it helps that Belfast is such a lovely city to spend a week in. What struck me the first time we...

Adactio
13 Apr 2025

GeoCities Time Machine!

geocities.live/

Fun!

But also …never forget, never forgive.

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IndieNews English
13 Apr 2025 • dri.es/about

My phone's battery has been blogging for 7 years

dri.es/my-phone-battery-has-been-blogging-for-7-years

Ben Werdmuller
13 Apr 2025 • Ben Werdmuller

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

[Zoë Schiffer at WIRED] The Social Security Administration is changing its communications strategy in a surprising way: ““We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and ...

IndieNews English
13 Apr 2025 • osteophage.neocities.org

Twitterlike is a Bad Shape

osteophage.neocities.org/essays/twitterlike

ArtLung
13 Apr 2025 • Joe Crawford

It’s been foggy at the coast. Some interesting swell happening too.

Manton Reece
12 Apr 2025

Updated my NBA arenas web page for the game last night in Phoenix. A few good moments in the game but Spurs lost badly, missing too many players even beyond Wemby.

with words, wonder
12 Apr 2025 • James' Coffee Blog

Coffee shop details

When I visit coffee shops, I like to take notes of things that I appreciate about their design, as well as wishes for what would improve my experience in the coffee shop. Most of these notes are scattered throughout the forest that is my digital notebook, so I thought I woul...

with words, wonder
12 Apr 2025 • James' Coffee Blog

How audible is this URL?

When I am designing URLs, I consider whether a URL is something that would be easy to understand if heard aloud. This does not need to apply to all URLs – for example, I wouldn’t mention a post URL verbally – but it does apply to many pages, like a contact page or an about p...

with words, wonder
12 Apr 2025 • James' Coffee Blog

A magic coffee cup that doesn’t spill

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!

with words, wonder
12 Apr 2025 • James' Coffee Blog

Email attachments and forgiving design

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...

with words, wonder
12 Apr 2025 • James' Coffee Blog

Today

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...

ArtLung
12 Apr 2025 • Joe Crawford

The Castle (1997)

For the IndieWeb Movie Club I watched 1997’s The Castle IWC April 2025: hosted by Zachary Kai Usually I will read and research before seeing a film. I don’t mind spoilers. So a trailer and a wikipedia synopsis would be a first step. For this, I took it on faith that it’d be worthwhile. The...