New bed delivered. Old bed taken away. New bed won't go round the corner at the top of the stairs!

I took off the handrails and a decorative piece at the top of the wooden support pillar. Nope! No amount of twisting, turning or applied geometry was going to make the two halves of the base go round that corner.

This weekend, I attended the State of the Browser conference in London, an event run by the London Web Standards community. I stayed in the city for a few days to attend the event. One of the highlights of my trip, aside from the delightful and engaging

Not only Telegram implements new features, I spontaneously had an idea and a bit of programming desire. As an optional feature GoBlog now offers “reactions”. I don’t think I need to explain this feature, just try it out on this post. 😉

I have been thinking about the typography on my website for months in the back of my head. Every so often, I ask myself: is the typography as good as it can be? First, I wonder whether I should start using a custom font. If I recall correctly, I am using a web-safe default font right now. Maybe a new font will add more character to my blog?

You may be interested in On Web Typography (their other books on design are really good, too).

Your typography for each element should help that element fit its purpose on that given page. i.e. you wouldn't want bold 36px text for your blog posts. Your font sizes for blog post text will probably be different between the main page and the blog post detail page because the purpose of the text is different. Serif fonts, that is fonts with caps on the end are easier to read for longer texts. Give it room to breathe.

You can also use different colors of text to increase/reduce emphasis of a particular element. I use this  technique quite a bit in Tanzawa. For example the page I'm using to write this reply looks like this:

Typography and design are deep subjects and are, in many ways, exactly like programming in the following sense: "Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to pgoram, frustrate him for a lifetime."

I’ve got a spreadsheet where I track the Apple products I own and one of the columns in it is the per day cost. My current Mac (a 13” MacBook Pro I purchased in 2017) remains the most expensive Mac I’ve bought measured on that basis and will remain so until early July. If I want to wait until it’s cost me, say, ¥100 a day, Soulver is telling me I need to wait until 5 December 2024 (!).

Resource Scarcity doesn’t make sense on the web. Artificially creating it here serves no other purpose than to charge money for things that could easily have been free for all.
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This is a world where anything can easily be copied a million times and distributed around the globe in a second. If that were possible in the real world, we’d call it Utopia.

It’s increasingly difficult to buy a non-smart TV, so your only options are to never connect it to the internet (impossible on a Samsung), use router level DNS blocking (until the TVs start using encrypted DNS) or connect something like an Apple TV and use that exclusively.

He's turning Automattic into a different kind of tech giant. But can he take on the trillion-dollar walled gardens and give the internet back to the people?

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After some thought, I decided to build indieweb-utils, a Python library with building blocks that will assist developers in building IndieWeb applications.