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Look at me using an outline and mind map to start a writing project.

Let’s see what happens when we press this button.

One last test for the night.

Testing Micropub from Drafts.

If all goes well, this should show up on Bluesky.

A post without a title or permalink.

test.

CoPilot fail: telling me hasOwn “seems to be a typo or a custom method” and that I need to use hasOwnProperty except that’s not what the docs say.

Note: Object.hasOwn() is intended as a replacement for Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty()."


I’m one of those folks that still lament the loss of DarkSky. I waffle now between Carrot and the Apple Weather app. Dr. Drang nails one of the first and biggest UI issues I had—the 10 day temp graphs. The unbearable sorrow of Apple Weather


I’ve played around some with SVG masks and CSS masking, but this post from Andy Bell on Mask image introduced me to a new CSS property: mask-composite. Layer two masks and you can add, subtract, intersect or exclude them. Rad.


I have always wanted to use more footnotes[1]. And I have always coveted folks who have managed to pull off having their footnotes hang out in the sidebar. Just feels like a better reading experience for an aside, which is how I mostly use them. Michelle Barker demos how the coming-soon CSS Anchor Positioning will make it easier to accomplish. Unfortunately I’m not sure where Webkit/Safari is with implementing. But checking out the demo in latest Chrome, I hope it’s soon.



  1. I use a combination of a VSCode extension and a markdown-it plugin with Eleventy. ↩︎

Me, with a dozen unfinished projects: “I should start a new blog with that domain I’ve been sitting on for 7 years.”


#lazyweb what’s the current best practice for copyright/licenses on a blog?


New to me, a VSCode extension that helps you manage your static site content. Worth it alone for managing tags and front matter. Front Matter VSCode CMS