People have been trying to go to /now, /about, and /links on my site. I don’t have these pages nor links to them anywhere. Wonder if it’s time to make some…
ARIA sure you need those roles and attributes?
You oft hear of regurgitation, but not much about standard gurgitation.
Got around to sorting out my syndication feeds. Go subscribe!
Media Review Reasoning
How many stars equals good?
A breakdown of the reasoning behind my reviews with particular emphasis on the five-point and binary rating systems and why I dislike them yet go along anyway.
https://vale.rocks/posts/media-review-reasoning
Been upgrading and building on this. Pretty happy with it now. It has tons more engines added, a nicer UI (still simple—speed is the priority), and snaps inspired by Kagi which are lovely.
Pretty convinced jackiechan.com is peak web design.
This has had me thinking about website layouts, and how typically we’ve had navigation situated at the top. Perhaps we need to rethink our designs based on the embrace of sidebars as they become the ‘new normal’?
A wise man once said “Ogres are like onions. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers.”
Make your CSS like ogres and onions.
I’ve been thinking about the concept of “heritage listed websites”. We have buildings that we feel are too important to alter and must keep frozen in time – why not websites?.
I suppose this is less important with the web, as we can ‘simply’ archive copies of things but it’s been playing in my mind nonetheless.
Really interesting seeing what posts get picked up on Fedi, and what posts get picked up on Bluesky. I’m struggling to identify any real pattern.
Part of my diploma at North Metropolitan TAFE was a live-works project redeveloping the website for Public Libraries WA.
My team and I took what was an outdated Joomla site and revitalised it into a sleek, modern experience. The old site was built back in 2009, had security flaws and lacked responsive design, rendering it nigh unusable on mobile devices.
We rebuilt it from the ground up using WordPress paired with a custom theme built using Tailwind and a tailor-made plugin to perfectly fit our client’s needs.
It was awesome working with Emily Drage, Zoe Chan, and Maria Benic on it.
Say what you will, the phrase “hacked up, bastardized simulacra” is genuinely pretty awesome. I suppose we at least got something out of this mess.
The best time for productivity is any abnormal hour of the day when I can sit semi-comatose, powered purely by stimulants.
Saw a guy sprinting through the city with a Sonic the Hedgehog shirt on.
It took a hideous amount of restraint not to yell “GOTTA GO FAST!”
I see a lot of stuff gain traction that I’d have figured is too well known, too obvious, or too low effort. I need to do more stuff.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take after all.
Honestly pretty excited to give Ghostty a whirl with the upcoming v1.0. Looks pretty rad!
I think this is one of the best things I’ve ever read on LessWrong. It perfectly resonates with motivation as I experience it.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JBR6AF9Gusv4u6Fwo/laziness-death-spirals
Coming around to that time of the year when I update and refine all my configs. I’ve got a lot of notes on what needs work.
Should be rad.
Lorem Ipsum
'Blah blah blah' doesn’t look quite as good.
A page for testing and trialing formatting, features, and typography by seeing how they interact in complex arrangements to catch edge cases at scale.
https://vale.rocks/posts/lorem-ipsum
I’m always amazed by the cool features I find when I misstype in Vim.
I really hate the term ‘WebFinger’. Stop fingering around for some JSON. Frankly, keep your fingers to yourself.
Perhaps the real enhancement is the progression we made along the way.
How does one represent a dinkus in HTML? A <hr> with some styling? Not sure on the semantics here…
New CSS logo dropped. It looks great! Now, when do I get all those cool unused designs on a shirt?
I’ve been very disappointed with DuckDuckGo results recently. Seems there was a sharp drop in quality ~3 weeks ago.
Kagi gives the best results I’ve found, but at a financial premium. I’m kinda just jumping around search engines looking for a home.
I really appreciate that people in my feeds engage in nuanced AI discussion. Yes, there are negatives. Yes, there are positives. No, flame wars don’t get us anywhere.
Thanks for all being so awesome and eloquent with your words.
Just updated my services page. If you’ve got JavaScript enabled, it’ll now show the service status inline on the page.
For anyone wondering, you absolutely can enrol your toe as a fingerprint on a Google Pixel 7a.
I usually steer clear of political posts, but I can’t stress enough how important it is for every American to get out and vote. The world will be a little better for it.