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Swiss Miss,
Spaghetti Mayhem. Thanks for the chuckle, Kottke. – My wonderful friend Maria Popova has entered the poetry stages with her beautiful Spell Against Indifference. There’s nothing I respect more than when I see humans expand, stretch, and break into new territory. Go Maria! – I am in the Swiss Alps. Just found this Youtube of […]
Waving From Switzerland
Posting has been light as I am currently on my yearly pilgrimage to the Swiss Alps with my kids. The scene above is what I am currently seeing and hearing outside our 200+ old farmhouse Airbnb in the Appenzeller mountains. (Cowbells are real!) You can follow our journey along on my Instagram and especially this […]
A ‘Book Doctor’ at Work
I hated it when someone asked me “What do you want to be when you grow up” when I was a kid. I should have just said A Book Doctor (via the kid should see this)
MDN’s rogue definitions of <b> and <i>
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From 1993 through roughly 2008, the <b> and <i> tags in HTML meant “bold” and “italic,” respectively. Using those tags will still, in 2023, cause most (all?) browsers to render text with either a bold font weight or an italic font style, but the tags no longer “mean” that. It’s now more correct to consider […]
How to get Jetpack’s “Writing Prompts” in WordPress
The WordPress Jetpack plugin recently (and experimentally) added “Writing Prompts” like those seen on WordPress.com-hosted sites since…I wanna say 2020? I’ve been thinking about getting more into “Personal Blogging” elsewhere, and I figured these would be useful in getting words out. In order to get these prompts on a self-hosted WordPress site, you need to […]
“The Moon” Is Wrong
Three years ago, in December 2019, a tweet went viral posting a link to a YouTube video in which all the lyrics to Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” had been changed to “The moon is right.” Two days later, another, far more viral tweet joked that the lyrics can be read as the interruption of an […]
Generating editor snippets from SassDoc
I’ve always loved SassDoc, and I’ve always loved editor snippets, but as a Vim and Neosnippets user, (a) other people’s (VSCode) snippets weren’t useful to me, and (b) my (Neosnippet) snippets weren’t useful to anybody else. At some point it would be great to build a tool that can convert snippets of one format to […]
David Cameron makes shock comeback as Rishi Sunak’s foreign secretary in UK reshuffle
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Dramatic return for ex-prime minister ousted after Brexit referendum follows firing of Suella Braverman.