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Niki Tonsky

“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.” — Jarrett Fuller

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patricus

@inautilo yeah, but also not having any features at all, simplicity is bad for that.

Khrys

@inautilo I totally agree : my website is definitely a radical act of small protest.

ms. leave-a-mix

@inautilo

I agree and would go even further with the usage of standard communicqtion protocols you free yourself from technical dependencies. I.e mastodon to share links and quotes instead of an rss feed or a mailing list, or using an Irc server for chatting and questions.#mailinglist #irc #oldtechnology

Niki Tonsky

Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it:

tumblr.com/foone/7502161359354

TL;DR: It's because Sony.

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Tirrimas

@foone we used to call them "cookie disks"

itgrrl :donor:

@foone I love “the clicky thing that goes pyoing” & “the swooshy thing that goes snap” 😂

Niki Tonsky

Interesting to see users working around the lack of tactile buttons in some modern cars:

Verb

@danluu byob: bring your own buttons

Cali

@danluu Cheers to ingenuity, but booooooo on the people that let this design go to production.

Niki Tonsky

CSS challenge! First picture is what I need, second is what I get. Can you fix it? Has to stay a single grid. Start here jsfiddle.net/3qjebucd/2/

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Roma Komarov

@nikitonsky The `.poster` elements should always have a `span` that will cover more lines that you think it should: in this case the second and third poster should have a span 3 and 4.

If you're ok with removing the vertical gap from the grid, then you could do something like span 99, but with a vertical gap (like in your example) it won't work.

Sergey

@nikitonsky I did it for #esperanto. Not quite sure what I was expecting but this is kind of boring. :(

Niki Tonsky

Germans: we already sorted everything for you 💪

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adingbatponder

@nikitonsky axes illegible because too small... what do they say ?

InsertUser

@nikitonsky If it was sorted wouldn't it be a diagonal line?
This actually makes it look like they're the least organised.

Niki Tonsky

CSS is still hard and it’s winning

Niki Tonsky

Hardest part of working on clj-reload is that you can’t use clj-reload during development.

When I was hacking on tools.namespace, I also found out the hard way that /cognitect-labs/test-runner depends on tools.namespace too

Niki Tonsky

2022/2024. That’s one way to close doggie daycare

Niki Tonsky

Are you a Steve or Tim type of person?

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Zaͩnͦsͤt̀́rͤa̅̆̈

@nikitonsky LOL. Steve has a very cute small Power Mac (G4) on his desk.

juni 2.91

@nikitonsky Steve. Tim's office looks like Patrick Bateman designed it.

Bret

@nikitonsky My office is very much like Steve’s there. But there’s only one of him.

Niki Tonsky

Sometimes simple things are actually not simple

Patrick Dubroy

@nikitonsky I'm kind of surprised CSS doesn't let you specify the interpolation function.

How did you determine the steps? Is it a linear approximation of a Gaussian or something?

Jonathan Dallas

@nikitonsky Computer graphics are layers of abstractions 🙃 Everything simple thing is complex. The lack of simplicity here is arguably just that this tool is missing an abstraction for eased gradients

Niki Tonsky

Two blog posts in one day? Why not? Humble Chronicles: Shape of the Component tonsky.me/blog/humble-defcomp/

Niki Tonsky

I was watching the latest “No CGI is just invisible CGI” video and noticed this VFX breakdown from Last of US.

First (clear) one is unfinished. Second is “finished” comp.

But WHY?

You can see so much more in the first one, it looks great already IMO

Warren Henning

@nikitonsky one of the best reasons to watch Father Brown and Sister Boniface Mysteries on the Peacock channel is that they are not afraid of shooting in broad daylight and having bright colors that are not color graded into grey muddy dishwater. a revolutionary act in 2024

Julik Tarkhanov

@nikitonsky I've done a ton of those - the likely reason is "guiding the viewer's attention". So it is possible that for Story™ or Director Vision™ it was important that the lights are more apparent than the rest of the scene, even if the scene is great.

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