Firehose

Sure, sex is great and all, but have you ever felt a shower stream on a freshly shaved head?

To the tune of Devo’s Beautiful World.

It’s a beautiful web we log on to,
A realm of quiet art–
Handcrafted pages and thoughtful words
Where each voice leaves its mark.
Makes me want to say…

It’s a beautiful web,
It’s a beautiful web,
It’s a beautiful web
For you, for you, for you.

It’s a great time for creation,
A moment to truly share;
Mindful code and written dreams
All built with honest care.
Makes me want to say…

It’s an uplifting space,
It’s an uplifting space,
It’s an uplifting space
For you, for you, for you.

Hey!
Tell me, what do you see?

Introverts bathed in LCD light,
Finding meaning in the night.
Hey, hey!

It’s a beautiful web we log on to,
A realm of quiet art–
Handcrafted pages and thoughtful words
Where each voice leaves its mark.
Makes me want to say…

It’s a beautiful web,
It’s a beautiful web,
It’s a beautiful web
For you, for you, for you.

It’s not for me.

(It’s a beautiful web) For you
(It’s a beautiful web) For you
(It’s a beautiful web) For you
(It’s a beautiful web) Not me–
(It’s a beautiful web)…

Put together a fresh website and new branding for my Revolt moderation bot AutoMod.

Dipped my toes a little into experimenting with Material 3 styling.

https://automod.vale.rocks

I dunno why tens of people have been accessing my website with legacy Microsoft Edge, but, if you’re one of them, I hope you know I’m going to have to kill you.

I’m sorry, that’s just the way it goes. You brought this upon yourself.

It came to my attention that my search wrapper was broken on Windows.

I have now fixed this (and added more providers).

Happy searching!

https://search.vale.rocks

I do rather enjoy the funny run business people do when they’re late for their bus.

Linus knew exactly what he was doing when he called the command ‘git blame’.

Was eating dinner and various cables and USBs kept getting stuck to the magnet in my hand.

Such a first-world cyborg problem.

(I’ve just realised this honestly sounds like some sort of satire and not an actual experience I had.)

Nothing makes me want to commit genocide quite like an editor auto-closing my HTML tags.

I think the main reason I prefer e-readers to paper books (beyond my love for e-ink as a technology) is the fact that I can bring up the definition and etymology of a word.

Of course, not having to prop open the book I’m reading while lying semi-comatose is another benefit.

I kinda miss the days when sites would get complete redesigns pretty much annually. It kept the web feeling fresh and cutting edge.

I suppose it was simpler to do everything over when all it took was a bit of hacking away with HTML and CSS.

Usually it’s infuriating, but sometimes it can be fun to write CSS within the constraints of existing, untouchable HTML.

Does Flexbox still feel really new to anyone else?

It is like my concept of ‘new CSS things’ just broke at some point.

Ever met someone who hates melted cheese? No? Exactly!

Somehow I reckon’ we could harness this power to achieve world peace.

I thought selling body parts was illegal, but apparently ARM stock is at an all-time high…

No wonder my battery life has been terrible lately. I’ve had the full Revolt Chat stack running Dockerised in the background for the past half week…