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OpenAI stealing Scarlett’s voice for their new product after being told “no” is so perfectly on-brand, it’s almost painful. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her
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This is some real good user-interaction #CSS content right here. https://dbushell.com/2024/03/10/css-button-styles-you-might-not-know/  @Meyerweb These are truly the most wonderful feats of engineering, albeit they don't actually do anything useful. I know I have very little ground on which to comment on the beauty of a typeface, but this variable font is *SO GOOD* and I really wish I’d found it before “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition” published a month back, because it would have been **perfect** for the examples in the Fonts chapter. Try out all the features and variability of Elstob at https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/, which also links to a Github repository where you can get it.
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 @Meyerweb yeah, it is gorgeous. I immediately wanted to switch the headers in my blog to it. @Meyerweb That's a nice font! Always nice to see new work with an open license. No support for Egyptian transliteration, unfortunately. Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.
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  “Even if Twitter were to drop the designation altogether, [NPR CEO John] Lansing says the network will not immediately return to the platform. 'At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,' he says. 'I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.' ” https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label  I have officially reached the point in book edits where I hate everything I wrote and want to just burn it all and start over. “Once you start down the Dark Mode path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.” —FEDi Master Yoda This is a really, really nice base stylesheet with excellent typography (at least in the serif and monospace families) and markup considerations. https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
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 @Meyerweb Ed Tufte the absolute king. I started reading his work in the very early days of web design and he changed the way I see everything - now he's foundational of course, but for awhile there "actually, unless it's an art site, focus on the content and make the presentation serve that" was a bit revolutionary on the ol interwebs @Meyerweb , while reading the overview document I discovered that their "clever" CSS trick to underline links in a nonstandard way results in invisible underlines when viewed in forced dark mode on all browsers I tested. Forced dark mode (light text on dark background) is an essential accessibility feature for many vision-impaired users, including me. I understand the desire to share an artistic vision through site design. I just wish people would do it without creating a11y barriers. |
