Author Archives: Chris

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Conversation on Mastodon. Joe Crawford: go make a web page Me: YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD

Joe Crawford is not my real dad

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That’s an inside joke, my parentage isn’t seriously in question. He is however a fella who delights in knocking together fascinating little CSS experiments, like this replication of tractor feed printer paper. He’s also on the fediverse, as all the best people are. If you too delight in doing fun things with CSS, you should…

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Hebog typography

Poking at my <kbd>

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I’ve had a really productive day working on the typography for a client’s site, and along the way I found myself giving the much-overlooked <kbd> element a bit of a spruce-up. Not that the client will likely be using the element much, but the thought struck me I hadn’t really done anything much to style…

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Redesigning Mastodon

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I ended up on Mastodon in the Great Twitter Exodus, specifically on Tŵt Cymru since I live and work in Wales. Overall it’s a nicer place, but I’ve been having some niggles with the UI. Here’s what I see when I open up the site. Part 1: fixing the left sidebar That incongruous post form…

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A walnut fronted PC with small VU meters and a large Art Deco sunburst grille

The Art Deco PC

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My mum loves antiques, and she’s an absolute nut for Art Deco. A couple of years ago I gave her a mechanical keyboard with blue switches for the clicky and a set of Tall Deco typewriter keycaps from Datamancer. but it never sat right with me that she had to plug it into a modern…

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