Weaknote 2023-07-05

So… these will never have a regular structure, I think.

I mean, maybe one will emerge. But I think I prefer the idea of their being a little more free-flowing.

Life highlights

• Having the realisation that I am happy. Or was, when I realised it! I don’t need to have reached “happiness” as I don’t really know what that is - but swinging above and below an average level of contentment is perfectly fine with me.
• We had an ant invasion. We saw it off. Hooray!
• I cut my own hair and it turned out OK.
• I introduced my kids to Thunderbirds (so far just some clips from the original 1960s series). They loved what they saw. Octonauts, Paw Patrol, Go Jetters are so derivative…

Assorted nerdry

• Moved my WIP scrolly-tabs explainer article to this site instead of Hashnode.
• Shuffled some subdomains around, in an effort to decouple an older domain from my current web presence.
• Every now and then I do a little pull request from (or to? It should really be a merge request imho) the webri.ng GitHub repo. I am a contributor! 🎉

CSS JOY!

I welcomed these sites into the ring:

• https://iamschulz.com/ by Daniel Schulz
• https://www.neatcss.dev/ by Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes

Links & learnings

• Steve Faulkner’s very amusing designs at his HTMLZ Etsy shop
• Heydon’s cool and amusing designs at his Webbed Briefs store
• 80’s Synthwave Chillwave 2023 - Retro electro wave special
• thehtml.review and its previous issue thehtml.review/01
• CSS property box-decoration-break
• How to Style your RSS feed by Darek Kay

Also

I have a day job. Whew!