wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Seems like div is the only recommended wrapper element:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

EDIT everyone replied at once lol. I'm surprised too about div.

Also, screen reader support: https://a11ysupport.io/tech/html/dl_element

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I too wish for better tooling for browsing repo histories.

I'm imagining a UI similar to 5-D chess (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Mul...) and maybe like debase (https://toaster.llc/debase/index.html)

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Closest thing I know of is https://github.com/kristoff-it/superhtml#diagnostics

  SuperHTML validates not only syntax but also element nesting and attribute values. No other language server implements the full HTML spec in its validation code.

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Good ideas. It's nice to hear a non-frontender's perspective.

For font sizing and spacing, I always recommend https://utopia.fyi. It generates CSS variables like:

  --step-0: clamp(1.125rem, 1.0739rem + 0.2273vw, 1.25rem);
  --step-1: clamp(1.35rem, 1.2631rem + 0.3864vw, 1.5625rem);
  --step-2: clamp(1.62rem, 1.4837rem + 0.6057vw, 1.9531rem);

  --space-s: clamp(1.125rem, 1.0739rem + 0.2273vw, 1.25rem);
  --space-m: clamp(1.6875rem, 1.6108rem + 0.3409vw, 1.875rem);
  --space-l: clamp(2.25rem, 2.1477rem + 0.4545vw, 2.5rem);

that you can copy-paste across projects. Note this is not a fixed scale (1em 2em 4em), but it grows with viewport size, so bigger screens can have bigger text and looser margins. No more breakpoints; only choose min and max supported viewports, and the rest is interpolated.

I do wonder about interpolating line heights, though. Does anyone who uses utopia.fyi have a good way to manage that?

Re organizing spacing and layout rules, I still struggle with that. One day I'd like to see what https://every-layout.dev/ recommends.

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Very interesting idea! Adaptive UX seems under explored.

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Have you ran into any issues with handling inputs? Like how vim Ctrl+P would maybe be intercepted by the browser Ctrl+P shortcut for print.

And have you run into any other issues, maybe like performance?

I feel like web-ified terminals get nerfed pretty hard and I'm not sure if/how people overcome that.

I like the idea of customizing multiplexed terminals with on-the-fly JavaScript, tho.

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Maybe a fourth? https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#:~:text=Webrings

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

You can do both, because some people like having per-site color controls.

Like I prefer to read prose and literary website content in light mode while keeping my OS in dark mode.

Admittedly it's a niche use case.

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

A decent technical comparison: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/09/23/

Mostly about Atom requiring IDs and timestamps, and having an overall cleaner and less ambiguous spec

wonger_

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Not Lisp, but for those interested in editing programs that are running in production:

I read some Erlang article saying that hot swapping is not actually very useful in production because of some reasons, and instead a blue-green deployment is preferred. Can't find the link atm. This was close: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/relups

Compare to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42405168 Hot swaps for small patches and bugfixes, and hard restarts for changing data structures and supervisor tree.

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

https://github.com/ertdfgcvb/play.core

And don't miss the about page either: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/abc.html

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Yeah, I've been grappling with the definition of creativity too. There's a gamedev talk [0] on creativity that gave me useful perspective. Here's what I wrote elsewhere:

---

i've been thinking about raph's definition of creativity [0]: permuting one set of ideas with another set of ideas

(or trying an idea in new contexts)

this is a systematic process, doable even by machine once enough pattern libraries have been catalogued.

on a small scale, there's sprint.cards [1] or oblique strats [2]. on a large scale, there's llms...

it's freeing to approach creativity as a deliberate practice rather than waiting on some fickle muse. yet it's a bit disappointing to see idea generation so mechanical and dehumanized.

i am comforted by the value of mushy human abilities surrounding the creative process:

mostly 1) taste, the ability to recognize pleasing output,

...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTxGpEO30

[1] https://sprint.cards/

[2] https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

This stack overflow thread had a pretty good list of terminal plotting tools:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123378/command-line-unix...

gnuplot, feedgnuplot, eplot, asciichart, bashplotlib, ervy, ttyplot, youplot, visidata

And there's a lovely ASCII plot in the AWK book: https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC...

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Yes, and and it might help to have a second stream for those smaller things -- a microblog, notes, or TIL section of your site (I call mine nuggets).

It helps relieve the pressure from full-length blog posts. A place to let yourself drop below a certain level of quality/polish/length. Anything to move beyond a stagnant blog / writer's block!

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

I liked this person's writeup of a string art algorithm: https://michael-crum.com/string_art_generator/

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Ah my bad! Didn't scroll down far enough. Shame. Maybe the fi ligature messed up their spacing.

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

You're probably seeing an Android bug. The default Android monospace font borks the spacing of box-drawing characters. It's been like that for several years. EDIT the same thing might happen on some niche Linux distros

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

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wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

> Before AI, I got a lot of interviews. Companies would talk to anyone with a reel. Today a beginner can send out fifty applications and not even get a first call. The thing that saved me may not be available to people starting out now. I do not have a clean answer for what to do about that. I only know that interviews were the best school I ever had, and I feel for anyone who is being shut out of that classroom.

wonger_

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Yes mostly in between jobs: https://www.recurse.com/who

Unless you can swing a six week sabbatical and return to your current job

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