It's so nice and centered! And... it's 8 boxes wide, so I'm going to have to break something to make a calendar. 😖

#journaling

Hey #webDesign, wanna help me find a book?

When I was a kid, I first learned HTML (back in the <marquee> days, pre-CSS) from a little book that I swear was called something like Creating Cool Websites for Kids. I think I remember it was written by a woman, and had a cover with some cartoon dude on it. This would have been in the late 90s or early 2000s. It was printed in color.

I cannot, for the life of me, find this book, and I would love to know what it was, just for nostalgic purposes.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Boosts much appreciated. Thanks!

#helpMeFind

New task on my list, after days of trying to make a CSS Grid-based layout that didn't use any media queries at all to be responsive:

#webDesign #webDesignNovice #CSS

As a kid, I loved snow days. The world was transformed, and daily life was suspended. Why wouldn't it be? The world itself was reminding us to relax, to enjoy and marvel, to put daily business on pause.

I still feel that when there's snow on the ground. My body wants to wonder at the transformed landscape, to slow down, to take a breather. But the society we've built has less and less room for that. If you don't work, you won't have those warm walls around you. You'll be out in the cold. Ignore your impulses, scrape your windshield, leave ten minutes earlier. The winter weather is made a burden by our refusal to allow productivity to pause.

I know, there will always be work that needs done in the winter. Surely, not this much. I can't help but mourn for the magic of winter that gets crushed beneath the American Protestant ethic.

I wonder if Musk even realizes how much he's further destroying his site's userbase here.

From my understanding, Twitter has been one of the more preferable sites for sex workers, cam models and other online sexual content creators, due to a laxer policy on nudity in media. It also happens that such creators (among others, of course!) will often link to simple link-aggregator homepages like Linktree in their bios. This update makes that a bannable offense.

Musk is such a small-minded, insecure man, and it's clear that no matter how many dollars he burns, they won't stave off loneliness's chill.

Promotion of Alternative Social Platforms Policy | Twitter Help

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Knowing that you have enough and not wanting more is being in right relationship to the world.

open.substack.com/pub/douglast…

Reminder that while you're supporting the NYTimes strike by not crossing the picket line, you can get your #Wordle fix in by playing Wordle+! If you're a little tech-savvy, you can even host Wordle+ on your own server.

#SelfHosting

GitHub - MikhaD/wordle: A recreation of the popular game Wordle with additional modes and features. Made with Svelte in Typescript.

A recreation of the popular game Wordle with additional modes and features. Made with Svelte in Typescript. - GitHub - MikhaD/wordle: A recreation of the popular game Wordle with additional modes a...

^GitHub

being a community manager in the gaming industry means I'm often wishing I could just tell entitled asswads to eat shit

anyway, I think I need to get this enamel pin

Eat Shit Pin// Flower Pin // Vintage Pin // Cute Pin // Pins - Etsy

This Pins & Pinback Buttons item by BadaboomStudio has 878 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Canada. Listed on Dec 1, 2022

^www.etsy.com

Alright #ADHD and #Autism gang, can you help me find a post?

It was someone talking about testing for either ADHD or autism, and remarking that if you hear a question like "Do you get lost in the fine details?" and start hemming and hawing about whether that really describes you, because there's This Situation and This Other Situation and, well, you're not really LOST in them—that's it, you're doing The Thing they're asking about.

For the first time, I've written flavor text for #netrunner cards that will actually be going to print!

These two cards are from @Null Signal Games' upcoming release, Parhelion.

You can find those cards, as well as many others, on NetrunnerDB.

Since my last attempt at developing a Hugo theme for my homepage got bogged down in faffing about with presentation before I'd got anything close to a structure in place, I'm forcing myself to develop this next one differently. I started with a tree-view sketch of how I wanted to organize content, imported @Kev Quirk :casio:'s simple.css, and am strictly prohibiting myself from messing with CSS until I've got a reasonable handle on the the basic structure of the site.

The contents of the menu can change—let me just make a menu for now.

I'm definitely going to change how tags are displayed—but first, let me get them displaying at all.

Turns out, maintaining a bit of focus discipline like this can help me get a lot more done! Who'da thought? 🙄

#indieWeb #WebDesign

Simple.css - A classless CSS framework

A classless CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good.

^Simple.css

The internet is a small, strange place. I was looking at Hugo themes, wondering if I could find a good backup theme to use for now until I finish the one I'm working on, and I found an attractive one called Digital Garden, "inspired by Maggie Appleton's digital garden". A neuron sparked in the back of my brain.

I followed the link to check out the inspiration, and was struck by all sorts of gorgeous touches. Maggie's site had beautiful typography and layout, and used seemingly custom illustrations for each essay post. One post I saw had an "intended audience" disclaimer at the top—what a delightful idea! Naturally, I wanted to learn a little more about the person behind this site (and there was that nagging sense of familiarity again), so I checked out the About page, and, well...

Hey, @Maggie Appleton, it's been a while since college! Good to see you again. 😆

Digital Garden

Digital Garden Theme for Hugo A simple Hugo theme for your digital garden, inspired by Maggie Appleton website DEMO This theme includes: a digital garden / blog a projects portfolio library notes Getting started Install hugo and create a new website:…

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me, washing dishes: god, so much of US history and politics, past and present, domestic and international, has been about exploiting the hell out of a class of people while developing policies and force to prevent that same class from actually using their labor power as leverage, and... hold on, I've heard this somewhere

Marx, shouting from beyond the grave: THE HISTORY OF ALL HITHERTO EXISTING SOCIETIES IS THE HISTORY OF CLASS STRUGGLES, MOTHERFUCKER

Every couple years, as now, I get struck with a desire to dramatically pare down my clothes into more of a capsule wardrobe. I think about it for a few days or weeks... and then do very little about it.

It seems the hardest part for me is the actual legwork: determining the pieces I want and actually committing to purchasing them, plus letting go of the articles that are no longer sparking joy.

Fantasizing about it is fun, and so much easier than the work!

#minimalism

oh good, a prominent financial criminal was doing some form of nonmonogamy, I'm sure this will go over great in the press 🙄

#polyamory

@Wouter Groeneveld has written a number of blog posts about web design that really inspire me. I can't even pick one; I just love the entirety of his "webdesign" category on his blog. He's got ideas for implementing search or WebMention on a static site, a compilation of cool things people have done on their own sites, and even a really thoughtful post about decreasing the friction for writing by cutting down on extra steps (like tags, featured images, etc.) and letting the architecture of the system work for you.

I deeply appreciate the hacker spirit of the #IndieWeb community. I can't wait to use some of these ideas in my own personal site.

#WebDesign

In my monthly July 2022 overview write-up, I …

In my monthly July 2022 overview write-up, I wrote: This website got a new search engine! The baked archives page used to be powered by Lunr.js, which has been replaced by Pagefind.app.

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Welp, I'm doin' it. I've set Semiphemeral to start deleting my old tweets, in preparation for locking down my Twitter account and walking away from the site permanently (for personal stuff).

When 2022 started, I didn't expect in the slightest that I'd be fully disconnecting from Twitter like this before the year was out. How things change.