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amazing. maybe i’ll turn this into a toggle on all my posts

_bxg1 7y ago
If you want to provide a toggle, you might be better off including the capitalization in the raw content and using this CSS property to do the lowercasing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-transform https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-transf...
- ryanckulp 7y ago
  it’s tricky cuz i still capitalize proper nouns e.g. San Francisco. i do have css for down-casing title etc however
  - roel_v 7y ago
    Is this a stylistic choice, or a statement about 'speed of living' or so, or why do you do this?
    - ryanckulp 7y ago
      i do it to keep things casual. for some reason it drives people crazy. spoke more in depth about this stylistic decision, with context, here: https://www.everyonehatesmarketers.com/marketing-without-budget/ https://www.everyonehatesmarketers.com/marketing-without-bud...
kyralis 7y ago
Please do. The lack of capitalization made me close the tab after about two sentences; this just doesn't make it past my "worth reading" filter. Sure, maybe it's good, but I have heuristics like this for a reason, and I'm quite happy to ignore work that simply can't be bother with basic English language norms.
- ryanckulp 7y ago
  i’m glad you closed the tab — you don’t deserve to read me. keep following fake rules and see where that takes you
  - marcinzm 7y ago
    It's not fake rules, its things which make it easier to read a large piece of text. You apparently value being unique and "non rule following" over the comfort and ease of reading of your readers which says a lot imho.
    - jshevek 7y ago
      I think it is unfair of you to assume his motive, and inappropriate to use the idiom normally used to impugn one's character. Would you apply the same reasoning to Cummings?
      - organsnyder 7y ago
        Poetry is much different than prose.
        jshevek 7y ago
        I don't see how that's relevant, as I was talking about the man, his actions, and the presumption of motive. Cummings disregarded capitalization norms in his prose as well. Edit: Maybe you meant: since Cummings wrote a lot of poetry, he is a special case and therefore can be forgiven for disregarding capitalization norms in his prose?
        bradknowles 7y ago
        It's much more important the quality of the poetry he wrote than the quantity. I can write a program to generate thousands of haikus. Doing so does not make that body of poetry meaningful in any way [0]. [0] Well, other than the fact that it got me a free monogrammed PowerBook G4 Laptop sleeve that was being given away by some people who underestimated the willingness of a younger programmer to beseige them with computer-generated haikus. ;)

If you want to provide a toggle, you might be better off including the capitalization in the raw content and using this CSS property to do the lowercasing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-transform https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-transf...

ryanckulp 7y ago
it’s tricky cuz i still capitalize proper nouns e.g. San Francisco. i do have css for down-casing title etc however
- roel_v 7y ago
  Is this a stylistic choice, or a statement about 'speed of living' or so, or why do you do this?
  - ryanckulp 7y ago
    i do it to keep things casual. for some reason it drives people crazy. spoke more in depth about this stylistic decision, with context, here: https://www.everyonehatesmarketers.com/marketing-without-budget/ https://www.everyonehatesmarketers.com/marketing-without-bud...

kyralis 7y ago

Please do. The lack of capitalization made me close the tab after about two sentences; this just doesn't make it past my "worth reading" filter. Sure, maybe it's good, but I have heuristics like this for a reason, and I'm quite happy to ignore work that simply can't be bother with basic English language norms.

ryanckulp 7y ago
i’m glad you closed the tab — you don’t deserve to read me. keep following fake rules and see where that takes you
- marcinzm 7y ago
  It's not fake rules, its things which make it easier to read a large piece of text. You apparently value being unique and "non rule following" over the comfort and ease of reading of your readers which says a lot imho.
  - jshevek 7y ago
    I think it is unfair of you to assume his motive, and inappropriate to use the idiom normally used to impugn one's character. Would you apply the same reasoning to Cummings?
    - organsnyder 7y ago
      Poetry is much different than prose.
      - jshevek 7y ago
        I don't see how that's relevant, as I was talking about the man, his actions, and the presumption of motive. Cummings disregarded capitalization norms in his prose as well. Edit: Maybe you meant: since Cummings wrote a lot of poetry, he is a special case and therefore can be forgiven for disregarding capitalization norms in his prose?
        bradknowles 7y ago
        It's much more important the quality of the poetry he wrote than the quantity. I can write a program to generate thousands of haikus. Doing so does not make that body of poetry meaningful in any way [0]. [0] Well, other than the fact that it got me a free monogrammed PowerBook G4 Laptop sleeve that was being given away by some people who underestimated the willingness of a younger programmer to beseige them with computer-generated haikus. ;)