October 2024 Forty-three posts

• 25-Oct-2024

  
  Fractal Kitty’s Mathtober sketches I think Fractal Kitty’s Mathtober sketches are just wonderful. You owe it to yourself to look at the whole CodePen collection of the animated ones, this one, entitled dodecicosacron I really love: See the Pen dodecicosacron by Sophia (fractal kitty) (she/her) (@fractalkitty) on CodePen. I had a clear glass puzzle when I was a pre-teen...

  artmathmathtoberxoxofest
• 24-Oct-2024
  Another take on a semicircular border Among the bounty of blog posts I’m reading in my new RSS reader that got my brain humming was this post on semicircular borders on a round element. I have of late been saying that every graphical problem looks like a nail I can solve by applying the hammer of a CSS Gradient. As such,...

  cssprogramming
• 23-Oct-2024
  Dune and Colonialism I’ve been doing maintenance. I’ve finished porting over all the RSS Feeds from one reader (Tiny Tiny RSS) to a new one (FreshRSS) and doing that has allowed me to revisit a lot of old feeds, friends and acquaintances who have died (Heather Armstrong and Jennifer Simpson, notably and shockingly, both died too young and...

  dunescience fictionuspolitics
• 23-Oct-2024

  
  Unfrozen Caveman Web Video Do I hate and fear web video. Yes. Mostly. Phil Hartman as the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer on SNL in the early 1990s. A slickster who claimed modern technology scares him. The first time I encountered video for the web I was capturing and processing videos of video gameplay down to postage-stamp size. This was for...

  cssbattlevideowebdev
• 21-Oct-2024

  
  Webmentions, explained. A Non-Technical Intro to Webmentions can’t help but be a tiny bit technical. But it’s certainly approachable. Nice work Natalie! Here’s how Natalie boiled them down: Webmentions are a way to let a website know that you linked to it. Webmentions, tech-wise

  indiewebwebmention
• 21-Oct-2024
  CSS Battle for October 21, 2024 on Video I recorded myself doing the today’s CSS Battle for the day. I used OBS which was pretty straightforward to set up. And I’ve uploaded it to YouTube. My CSS Battle Plugins on GitHub

  cssbattleprogrammingvideoyoutube
• 21-Oct-2024

  
  Perhaps you want a PNG file of the old Dodgeball.com dude illustration? In that case, I have you covered. Go read about Dodgeball (service) on ye olde Wikipedia. Illustration recreated in Procreate.

  dodgeballdrawings
• 21-Oct-2024

  
  I made a troll sign I made a troll sign to hold up during Zoom meetings I have been known to say “Printers are terrible.” I have also been known to say that I will only do tech support on printers for people I love. I later expanded my “Printers are terrible” to be a broader maxim: “Computers are terrible.”...

  craftingindiewebzoom
• 16-Oct-2024

  
  Got asked about my double handplanes after the session this morning.

  IFTTTswim2024via-instagram

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• 16-Oct-2024

  
  History Rhyming (Flickr, Chumby, BarCamp…) During today’s IndieWeb HWC Europe meeting the topic turned to old hardware and hardware hacking. I said “on the topic of old hardware…” and got out my Chumby with a few weeks ago took out of a storage box with the intent to… hack it? Sell it? Recycle it? It was a hit and fun...

  barcampchumbyenshittificationindienewsindiewebsocial-software