I was back on Mastodon for less than a week before I’d seen a few Takes™ linked to that were so banal, so contemptuous, and so absurd, I felt the need to write about them. I’d know, because I’m looking at my drafts folder now.
Hundreds of words. I didn’t like writing them. You wouldn’t have liked reading them. I left my lunch break feeling deflated not accomplished. fs...
Today’s Music Monday is another of my happy songs. If you need a pick me up, here it is.
I loved the Far Side
Underlined text has always been a bit of an issue in HTML and CSS. For example:
The colour of the underline could only be inherited from the text.
The CSS specification doesn’t define an underline thickness, leaving it to vendors to decide how to derive it. The end result was some browsers rendering thicker underlines than others, especially at larger font s...
By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-11.
A milestone birthday this year had more of an effect on me than I expected. I thought I’d be one of those cool people who say age is just a number, or that growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional. Well okay, I still believe the latter. Truth is, my views of the world have changed massively in the last twelve months. I can’t say whether this was ...