Cat HicksFeb 27

I enjoy when using tech tools on my extremely femme-gendered hobby projects makes them feel out-of-genre important

What an interesting way to trigger some stereotype incongruence and realize how much "tech weight" we give things just by all these relatively shallow signifiers

Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
Look at that font. She must have a hacker brain
Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
Are there things that make work "look Technical" to you? Are there secret signifiers you have become aware of? I love hearing people notice these things
Show threadGlyphFeb 27
@grimalkina off the top of my head: monospaced fonts, dark mode, hosting things in source control, customer service with issue trackers rather than ticketing systems, Markdown (sort of, that gets complicated), command-line instructions or aesthetics
Show threadCat HicksFeb 27
@glyph I CANNOT do dark mode ! But I love making silly dark mode versions of plots, so matrix
Show threadGlyphFeb 27
@grimalkina oh this reminds me. Because I understand these conflicting requirements I always try to keep the stylesheets on https://blog.glyph.im looking good and cohesive in light mode. but, also because of my own particular vision issues, I basically never actually *look* at it in light mode. As you are one of the few regular light mode users, if you ever see some wonky styling errors please let me know!
Deciphering Glyph :: index

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Show threadJeff Miller (orange hatband)
@glyph Looks fine to this light mode user. The headings are in a statement font, for sure.
Feb 27 at 8:25pmWeb
Show threadGlyphFeb 27
@jmeowmeow my font choices are at what I would consider the outside acceptable edge of legibility in order to be distinctive :)
Show threadGlyphFeb 27
@jmeowmeow although arguably somewhat *more* legible than i.e. Mastodon, since I was careful to pick one that allowed for visually distinguishing "I" and "l"
Show threadGlyphFeb 27
@jmeowmeow in any case: thank you!
Show threadJeff Miller (orange hatband)Feb 27

@glyph arrrrrgh

1 I l |

Show threadJeff Miller (orange hatband)Feb 27

@glyph and whatever happened to user style sheets?

gone with the snows of Web 1.0