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The Web is the Ultimate Format

Rachel Nabors

I love this idea, and it’s true! It can do any kind of text-based mediums like books, essays, etc, as well as all kinds of other multimedia with various image types and expressive typography, comics, audio, video, interactive stuff, and any combination of these. All in a platform that runs on many devices and is designed to be sustained and maintained long-term.

I wonder how the negative bias humans tend to have interacts with the idea of “rose-tinted glasses“. Are they two sides of the same coin, and we eventually counteract the negative things and discard them? They seem a bit contradictory, but maybe I should research negative bias more; I’m just using my vague understanding without a real definition.

Came across this workshop from 2018 all about comics, typography and other publishing topics in browsers, super cool stuff. I couldn’t find any recordings but most of it is transcribed and has slides, for which I am very grateful, so I’m slowly working my way through them.

Very Noise

The day is actually here: I wrote my first nested CSS – just plain ol’ CSS, no preprocessors – for a little project, and it works great in all browsers 🎉

Just finished up the rebooted Tomb Raider series – really nice games for the summer months. Next I will finally begin Cyberpunk 2077, a mere 3 years after its release. Patient gaming continues to prevail.

I feel like I lean way more towards innovator. I find a lot more enjoyment over discovering new things instead of perfecting something over time. Not always of course (I also like to get into a state of flow, which generally happens if you practice something a lot) but most…

Got around to exploring the new tag processor that’s the first part of WordPress’ HTML API, and it is super cool. Really interested to see other tools that help work with blocks on the server. Every once in a while I need to update blocks en masse (like just recently, which is why I tried out this new API) and PHP is really the only way of doing that, outside of editing one page at a time. Setting up block transforms and deprecations in the editor is cool but it can be hard to manage that at scale.

Maybe you have a large project where there is a sticky header on some pages and not others, or the sticky header changes size based on content. By default if you use an anchor link to jump down to a section of the page it will line up the target…

From The School of Thought, pretty great list of things to keep in mind when discussing typically-polarizing topics.