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by myfonj 2y ago
just•Give•Me•Extra•Kerning•Or•Ligatures I still don't understand how comes that in times of programming fonts with fancy ligatures there is not a single one that would attempt to make camelCase more legible by slightly separating lower
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by myfonj 2y ago
What is interesting that there is palette for dark mode present in loaded stylesheet reacting to OS or browser preference, but it is set to take effect only while HTML has a certain class. It can be added from devtools document.docume
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by myfonj 2y ago
I think the OP link would have had the parameter included: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dark_mode_(gadget)?w... from a quick glance it adds invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) to HTML style. What indeed wo
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by myfonj 2y ago
Yes, it was clarified in a Twitter thread [1]. As I understand the line of thought around modals there it is: If it has to be declaratively opened modal on each page visit, blocking other content, it should better be an extra page anyway.
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by myfonj 2y ago
And also <details> if you need expanding/collapsing content, or, with a slight abuse, a "dropdown". Strange that unlike <dialog open> and <details open>, `<whatever popover>` apparently lacks the the a
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by myfonj 3y ago
:] By their tongue, you will know them. Tangentially related: I really loved the 'shibboleth' that went like complex and multifaceted [things] that encompass [other things] from November 2023 [1]. Even though it was clear
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by myfonj 3y ago
Anecdotally, I've recently visited LinkedIn and saw promoted job offerings for "Photo Collector" [1] that among other interesting requirements had one point that stood out: • Only photos taken before October 1, 2023, wi
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by myfonj 3y ago
I like the parable that any text content that originated before 2021 now has increasing value, and in certain sense became a digital equivalent of physical "Low-background steel" [1]. Its value is mostly, and paradoxically, for tr
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by myfonj 3y ago
Also my daily driver for any bitmap-related operations. One little thing that became my muscle memory over the years is using it to view/edit/crop latest clipboard entry, most often screenshots, through simple hotkey (olden AutoHo
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by myfonj 3y ago
> The sound is transported along the tube via air — a very simple solution. Though this also explains why they sound absolutely terrible. I see it is simple, but I wonder, would it be possible to use different sound medium ("conduc
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by myfonj 3y ago
* Oh, for webkit-based browsers, please replace `crisp-edges` with `pixelated`. I've just blindly trusted MDN compatibility data table [1] and did not verify it myself, and obviously there was a catch X[ Here is better cross-browser co
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by myfonj 3y ago
If you yearn to see those icons with crisp zoomed pixels without blurry aliasing, try this makeshift viewer of the source sprite image ( https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/css_sprites.png ): data:text/html;verbatim,
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Danish man convicted for generating $315100 worth of fraudulent music streams(theguardian.com)
20 points by myfonj 3y ago|23 comments
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by myfonj 3y ago
This project has indeed potential to be super useful, just at this point seems super sketchy: - There is invisible footer with ton of SEO spam, after "All Rights Reserved © 2024 twstalker.com" (the copyright sign is made by font
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by myfonj 3y ago
If browser have standard native shortcuts that can clash with access keys (and lets web-pages' HTML access keys take the priority), then there is something strange going on in the browser. (Yes, I know, there really is something strang
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by myfonj 3y ago
Real fun begins when you realize that the streamed content can react to interactions that user submits from the streamed page: form targetted into hidden iframe or any other mean of issuing HTTP request back to the server and handling data
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by myfonj 3y ago
I agree it is a nuisance and I also am looking back to Keyconfig days with ton of nostalgia, but I've learnt to somehow overcome this in general with third party key remapping, in my case pretty basic AutoHotkey directives that simply
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by myfonj 3y ago
As a fervent long-time Firefox user I would add that currently there are lots of default settings of freshly installed Firefox that are (for me) utterly wrong. And it feels like a sad trend. Last time I tried to use freshly installed Firefo
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by myfonj 3y ago
This. Plus worth mentioning that Firefox has native support for real user stylesheets with own origin layer, just as specified by standards. It is userConent.css file in the "chrome" folder in the profile directory. Slightly cum
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by myfonj 3y ago
Ok, so here is variation that contains zero JS and (ab)uses the "invisible_anchor:focus + sibling_anchor_pointing_to_previous_anchor" trick [0]. I'd prefer the original version, though. This is more or less a hack. [0] ht
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by myfonj 3y ago
Sure, you are right about infinite non-interactive CSS animations. And it's true there are simple checkbox:checked or whatever:active hacks for interactivity without JS. But for "click to (re)restart animation" there is no be
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by myfonj 3y ago
If you'd like to try those easings straight away, you can use this bare-bones rip-off in interactive sandbox [0]. Still basic: animation is symmetrical, so easing "in" has the same easing as "out", just reversed. Un
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by myfonj 3y ago
Yes, pictures are loaded directly either from Wikimedia: File: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Venezuel... Page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venezuela_Or
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by myfonj 3y ago
I was ruminating around this topic the other day and came to conclusion it is probably terribly missed opportunity for certain advertising company. Now it sounds super scary privacy-wise, smells monopol-y and overall may not happen anymore
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by myfonj 3y ago
Yes, "alt" equivalent for "textual data representation" is ARIA role="img" with aria-label [0]: <span role="img" aria-label="[what assistive technologies should present]">[rende
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by myfonj 3y ago
Out of curiosity, are there any VCSs that operate on AST instead of plaintext lines? (Or is something like this being developed or proven impossible?) I guess it should be possible to cooperate on shared codebase without need for every cont
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System Prompt of Edge Copilot(twitter.com)
1 points by myfonj 3y ago|0 comments
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by myfonj 3y ago
I'm not sure if the parallel with the virtuosity of musical instruments was intended, but in any case one cannot disagree.
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by myfonj 3y ago
It's the "historical-ligatures" feature of used font, if you aren't in the reader mode already, F12 and document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<style>p { font-variant-ligatures: common-l
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Show HN: Natural Numbers Divisors SVG Exploration (2021)(codepen.io)
2 points by myfonj 3y ago|0 comments

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