Nick F

@nickautomatic
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I make web things.
Websitehttps://nickautomatic.xyz
LocationLondon, UK
Pronounshe / him

✍️ New Article: Better fluid sizing with round()

I wrote about how CSS round() enhances the values you get from clamp() in sizing, typography, and spacing. Why it matters, and how to use it.

🔗 https://ishadeed.com/article/css-round

European Parliament passes resolution affirming trans women's rights
The resolution includes a “call for recognition of and equal access for trans women to protection and support services”.

From Feb this year -
https://gcn.ie/european-parliament-resolution-trans-women/

European Parliament passes resolution affirming trans women's rights

The European Parliament has passed a resolution on gender equality, which contains a declaration that trans women are women.

GCN
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

Julia Evans

I wrote a blog post last week, but then immediately went off to Leeds for a bit, and then got ill, so forgot to post it. Until now!

It's about a fairly niche topic: switching to Linux. Not sure whether there's anyone on Mastodon who's interested in that sort of thing, but hey.

https://nickautomatic.xyz/posts/my-year-of-linux/

My Year of Linux

My personal home page on the internet

Don’t ask forgiveness, radiate intent

https://medium.com/@ElizAyer/dont-ask-forgiveness-radiate-intent-d36fd22393a3

I think about this @elizayer post all the time. I don't know of a single piece of advice that has helped me more to appreciate complex organisations yet retain the ability to act

TIL you can get a DOI for any (GitHub) code repo via Zenodo, a free service by CERN. This makes your code, dataset, or project properly citable in academic papers and research, with a permanent, versioned reference that won't break. Yay! 🥳

We just added a DOI for OpenMoji as well! https://zenodo.org/records/19704720
#OpenScience #OpenSource #Research #OpenMoji

It's mostly just a bunch of notes about how I've found switching to Linux Mint, problems I ran into, things that helped, etc.

I wrote a blog post last week, but then immediately went off to Leeds for a bit, and then got ill, so forgot to post it. Until now!

It's about a fairly niche topic: switching to Linux. Not sure whether there's anyone on Mastodon who's interested in that sort of thing, but hey.

https://nickautomatic.xyz/posts/my-year-of-linux/

My Year of Linux

My personal home page on the internet

Just over 50 hours to bag one of 5 remaining super early bird tickets for #SotB2027
After that they are paused until @pixelpioneers.co and they go up in price too

https://2027.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Tickets | State of the Browser

More information and buying options for tickets.

Reading a claude.md and seeing written there many directives like this: "Don't make changes until you have 95% confidence in what you need to build."

This reveals such a profound misunderstanding of how this technology works that I'm speechless. And this is literally what people are trying to build fully-automated "software factories" from.