Notes

On the one hand very sad to not make @webstandards #SotB2025, on the other hand it’s because me and the bf are off to a forge in Gloucestershire to make a sword for our anniversary.

An entirely unjustified early anniversary present for us. But fuck me is this heavy enough to make us feel less guilty about the price.

Happy pancake day, the most important day in the British calendar 🥞

Lovely Only Connect final tonight. Some real great “proper only connect questions” where all the info is there in the question.

Well deserved win by the winnin team.

The gangs all here now. And current campaign is 3ish sessions away from finishing. Almost time to try DnD2024 in earnest.

Why have I been writing my own alias for git recent when it’s a config option?

This is great!
From: @mudge
ruby.social/@mudge/11407042335

Internet, help me solve a mystery. For me the couple on Hitched is Gay, for my straight friend I sent it to they were straight.

Does clicking on this align with your orientation? hitched.co.uk/

The web person in me needs to know if they’re tracking for that.

Still waiting for an IM app like WhatsApp/signal/telegram to come up with a good solution for spoiler signalling, put me in a group chat with all my friends who’ve seen episode X of show Y

Doing some personal website updates and I always forget how much fun it is working with just html/css for projects.

Feels like going from using a band saw to hand whittling some wood.

I cannot wait to win a science victory with Ada Lovelace in the new Civ

Twice in the last 24 hours have I done a toot and ended up bumping into solid 100% cool web tech folks on mastodon, feels like the old days of Twitter. This place is great.

Web dev tools absolutely peaked in 2011. Was trying to help a colleague visualise how divs were placed in a webpage and immediately thought of this tool, but it was discontinued a long long time ago. 😢

@carol @sophie I haven’t been to a conference in so long and I don’t know what the cool kids are talking about these days

Web React people, has anyone used shadcn/ui in a production app? What was it like? And if not, if you were to start a new app with a react component library which would you use? #web #react

I’ve only just been told about PostHog and am already a total sucker for their tone of voice.

Their Fantasy or Taylor Swift Data Protection Agreement generator is just divine posthog.com/dpa

New Blog Post: joehart.co.uk/posts/2025-01-22

It was my New Year’s resolution to write more and here we are near the end of January finally doing it 😅

TIL about ‘system-colour’ in CSS. You can set other elements like a fake pseudo element to stuff like HighlightText. But annoyingly it doesn’t inherit.

This really is gonna a terrible time for those fake YouTube movie trailer channels now AI video is getting easier to use.

Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl is such a good “dnd” movie. I can see every roll they’re making

God damn, Bicentennial Man is the perfect saccharine, plodding wonderfully excitingly dull but heartwarming Asimov movie.

This may just be the childhood nostalgia talking but I love this movie.