October 2023

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Antarctic Accent

Scientists witnessed the first stages of a common accent developing in Antarctica among its ever-changing population of scientists who spend months together at research stations on the isolated continent.Β  Scientists Witnessed The Birth Of A New Accent In Antarctica What does it sound like? Apparently it’s only barely measurable, but: One of the main shifts […]

Jazz

Oh man, good for me. Look at me! I am listening to jazz. Here I am, just taking in the moment. Fully present. Just me and the music. Yup yup yup yup yup. Completely immersed. Thinking about nothing else. The rhythm. The musicality. The syncopation. Is that the right word? β€œSyncopation”? That’s a jazz thing? […]

More OKLCH Musings

I was reading Robin’s Design systems, color spaces, and CSS where he was coming to the understanding that one of the reasons that the OKLCH color model (the oklch() function in CSS) is awesome is because of the “predictable lightness values” and quotes from the Evil Martians post that made the point very strongly. “Uniform […]

Style Scoped

The idea of scoping styles has been desired for a long time. The idea is to write CSS without worrying it will apply to more than you want it to. You can solve this in a number of ways. A way to do it without changing any core technology is to use naming. If you […]