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My brain is in a very "oooh, shiny" state today. Keeps going off on tangents & down rabbit holes based on posts I read.
Someone shares a "beautiful minisite" from a type foundry launching their sensible new sans serif body typeface, and within seconds my brain jumps from "I should try making a font again" to an image of decorative block-capital handwriting letters where up-strokes on verticals are ribbons wrapping around solid downstrokes.
Brain dumped & preserved for posterity / future me:
Ever since the last #Firefox update (to 135.0), the context menu (the menu that pops up when you right-click an item) has been completely borked: it shows every possible item, for all possible contexts, all at once in a giant scrolling menu.
And none of the options, relevant or not, actually work.
But checking the version just triggered a new update download, so it might improve soon?
I don't usually download .0 versions, but I guess I'd ignored the v134 update for too long!
Hey @chriscoyier, I'm getting a little annoyed at you hanging out in my open tabs, staring impatiently at the stuff I'm actually reading instead of finally getting back to the video in your blog post.
This might be what makes me declare open-tabs bankruptcy. There's a lot that have been waiting for much longer than you!
(But at least it's not the grumpy-tough-guy pic from your site header! Now that's a Chris you don't want to leave waiting.)
GQ with a particularly classy way of handling a social media embed that gets blocked by my anti-tracker settings.
(Even if the whole article still seems to be on of those "people made a hashtag joke on X-Twitter & we've decided that it is a thing now". But it is also kind of a nice ode to the hyperlink, while pondering on the nerdy need to dig up the context of every interesting fact.)
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/wikipedia-boyfriends-2024
I still want to go back to my keyboard power user status, but I am getting better at swiping the trackpad instead of the screen. Of course, now I sometimes swipe the screen with two fingers for maximum smudges.
One issue: swiping too much to left or right on the trackpad in Firefox caused a next/previous navigation in my browser tab history. Very annoying. I couldn't find any Firefox or Windows setting to fix it. If this annoys you too, go to about:config,
search browser.gesture & edit to match
Accessibility specialists: To ensure legibility, it's important that the text has strong contrast.
Font designers: Strong contrast means an extreme difference between the thick and thin strokes in each glyph, right?
(I don't know if native readers of Cyrillic languages can spot the difference between И, Н, and П in the serif font without squinting, but I sure can't.)
(The cookies were yummy, though.)
"We need your support today. Independent journalism is more important than ever. This timely and essential task, however, is expensive to produce."
"That's why we run active fingerprinting scripts on your web browser, with as precise geolocation as we can generate, store it as an advertising profile, and sell it to 848 (and counting) advertising partners!"
I appreciate y'all's honesty (and the European laws that require it), but imma gonna "Reject All".
Web designers:
When I have to shrink my browser window horizontally to "tablet" size in order to get a usable reading area vertically, you done messed up.
Sticky headers can sometimes have their place, yes, but that place shouldn't be more than half the height of the window!!!
