May 3, 2021 at 10:55 am -- POST

Flooded, swampy grassland with a tree line in the distance, grey cloudy skies after a storm

Bad Estimates

I’m going to guess between one and one thou­sand jelly beans are in the jar. Oh wait, I did­n’t real­ize you keep scoop­ing some out before the final tally. I did­n’t have that infor­ma­tion before and it would great­ly impact my mod­el’s prediction.

April 29, 2021 at 12:55 pm -- LINK

Dark Mode Inspiration

I’m dig­ging in and giv­ing the site lit­tle revamps in a few places. Better type, bet­ter respon­sive han­dling, cleanup some code. In look­ing to add a dark mode, I ran across this exam­ple by Max Böck who dialed the idea to eleven with a color theme switch­er fea­tur­ing ten options. I don’t think I’m going to do ten but three or four might be nice.

Web page screenshot from mxb.dev color theme switcher, dark mode, css custom properties

April 28, 2021 at 2:55 pm -- POST

Pile of vegetables, leafy greens, beans, sustainable eating options, no more beef

Epicurious: After Beef

Individual action is a tiny drop in the buck­et. If the buck­et gets full enough though, it can have the weight nec­es­sary to bend pol­i­cy and change soci­ety. Stop eat­ing beef and be pro-planet!

April 28, 2021 at 12:42 pm -- LINK

The word default with different typefaces for each letter, new Microsoft Office default typefaces, Times New Roman, Calibri, five new commissions

Microsoft’s Next Default Font

Times New Roman, Calibri, and up next…? Five new con­tenders have entered the ring to be the new default type­face in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office pro­grams. Commissioned by Microsoft, their names are Tenorite, Bierstadt, Skeena, Seaford, and Grandview. They are already avail­able to try and use with a swap planned in the future after some feed­back and testing.

Mario ipsum showing Calibri and five new fonts proposed to be the new default for Microsoft Office
From top to bot­tom: Calibri, Tenorite, Bierstadt, Skeena, Seaford, Grandview

(Side shout out to Mario Ipsum for fun test wording!)

April 28, 2021 at 9:57 am -- POST

Green bean plant, home gardening, eat local, in my backyard

Indoor Jungle

I’ve got green beans grow­ing out­side. Plus, toma­toes and water­mel­ons. It’s time to bring a lit­tle dec­o­ra­tive green inside and hope­ful­ly these links will help me dig into it.

April 26, 2021 at 2:03 pm -- POST

What Day Is It?

monday again, maybe

April 22, 2021 at 4:59 pm -- LINK

Awesome-Selfhosted

This is a post-it note for myself to a long list of free, self-hosted soft­ware solu­tions. Decentralization, inde­pen­dent inter­net, and all that jazz. If you’re look­ing for alter­na­tives to siloed, sub­scrip­tion model, software-as-a-service (SaaS) — give it a look.

April 22, 2021 at 11:20 am -- POST

U.S. Annual Precipitation Compared to 20th-Century Average, NOAA Normals Climate Data, climate change

New Normals (Climate Edition)

The def­i­n­i­tion of “nor­mal” weath­er is about to change again. Pay atten­tion and don’t let your base­line shift. Does the water in this pot feel a lit­tle warm to you, fel­low frog?