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  1. Accessible UML Diagrams A page from a 1057 AD book about magic, containing a grid of strange magic diagrams. I've drawn in red question marks on top of some of the diagrams, to increase the confusion.

    Thoughts on trying to make technical diagrams accessible to blind readers.

  2. My DIY Kindle Wall Display A kindle hanging on the wall from a macramé holder. The kindle is displaying a dashboard display. The display has two rows. The first row has the current weather on the left (34 degrees farenheight and Seattle-y), a pixel art drawing of the word Home and a smiley face in the middle, the date (Jan 17) below it, and the current moon phase to the right. The second row has a Calendar widget, with a list of calendar entries, including reminders to call a friend and to go to choir. On the right side is a greyscale image of a grasshopper climbing a wall that takes up the rest of the space on the display.

    A primer on making your own kindle projects!

  3. Note #43

    To share a bit of whimsy, I’d like to reblog alexwlchan’s series about making custom static sites for her own personal archives.

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  4. Note #42

    I made a quick-and-dirty browser extension to hide Bluesky images and videos until they’re clicked on.

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  5. Accessible Copypasta A black and white photo of a man in a suit sitting at a table. His mouth is stretched wide open, and another main is scooping up spaghetti with a fork, to shove into the first man's mouth. The photo has been duplicated (copied), flipped horizontally, and placed next to the original photo, resulting in a fractally mirrored effect.

    A new webpage and musings on accessibility.

  6. Light/Dark mode and the bfcache A pixel art triptych of the same scene of a mountain meadow presented in morning, afternoon, and night.

    Solving a tricky problem with bfcache that I ran into when building my site's Settings page.
    (Art by KO.DLL)

  7. Building my own RSS Reader/Blogroll A sketch of a rolypoly bug holding a piece of paper

    Be your own Algorithm™

  8. Note #34

    Weird Web October 2025 is happening!

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  9. Note #33

    TIL that the Mastodon Statuses API (the one you call to make new posts) counts the length of the spoiler_text towards your 500 character limit.

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  10. IMP: I choose you! The Pokemon Jigglypuff using the move Bide. It's angry, with its entire body bright red instead of its normal pink, with anime style

    I think the whole concept of Illegally Manipulated Pokémon is really weird.

  11. Note #31

    I’ve started a project of making a small web-based game using the Go programming language, and I’m having a surprisingly hard time wrapping my head around it!

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  12. Personal Browser Extensions An image of Bob the Builder holding a microphone with the words

    Personalizing my experience on the web.

  13. Note #29

    Reading this HackerOne report really made me feel the harm being caused by the endless stream of AI slop.

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  14. Note #26

    It can be tricky to test Javascript code on mobile when you’re using Web APIs that require a secure (HTTPS) context, e.g. the DeviceOrientationAbsolute event.

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  15. Web Assembly Primer A large red C pointing to the Web Assembly Logo with a

    How to import shared memory when compiling C to Web Assembly.

  16. Note #24

    Here’s a fun SVG trick I just learned. If you set the fill or stroke properties to currentColor using CSS, your SVG will be the color of the text around it.

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  17. Adding a Copy Code Button A screenshot of the code I use to add the Copy Code buttons to my blog. Scroll down to read the actual code later in the article.

    Improving accessibility, one feature at a time.

  18. Note #12 Goku from Dragon Ball Z, with his fingers on his forehead, using the instant transmission technique

    I use pandoc heavily for my blog generator, converting the markdown files I write my content in to the HTML or Mastonified text that I actually upload.

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  19. Note #10

    TIL that Chrome has a great built in Node JS profiler.

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  20. Note #9

    Tip for sorting lists using CSS!

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  21. Storing Images on NFC Tags A very low resolution of the salt bae meme; i.e. a guy dramatically sprinkling salt over a steak.

    Experiments in writing and reading <500 byte images on NFC tags.

  22. Note #8

    And now I’ve gone down a rabbit-hole about the <link> rel attribute!

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  23. Note #7

    I was just reading Taliesyn Walker’s post about RSS and TIL that you can add a <link> element to your website that points to your RSS feed!

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  24. POSSE A directed graph diagram, with a circle titled

    Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

  25. NFC Sculptures A sculpey disc, with a sun etched into it. Inside the sun is the word Ragman.

    Digital whimsy in the physical world.

  26. Note #2 A screenshot of the Chrome Dev Tools Elements pane, with an HTML element selected, and the right click context menu open. Highlighted in the menu is the Capture node screenshot option.

    I recently learned about the Chrome Dev Tools “Capture node screenshot” button. It’s super handy for demos of new UI features, or for writing a retrospective doc.

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  27. Weird Web October 2024: A Retrospective A tie-dye background with the words

    Reflections on doing WWO24

  28. The Real Starman? A greyscale human face in the top left of the Ziggy Stardust album cover

    Finding Kleks in old album covers?!

  29. Local Golinks A picture of the Dallas GoLink van. A white van with the words

    My own smart bookmark tool