Here I talk about the things that I like that don't fit in with the theme of my main website. Topics will likely fall into the realm of nerdery, with hobbyist programming and web development, tech gadgets, and maybe video games and books.
While researching accessibility, I read that dark mode can be bad for astigmatism. I have also noticed recently that in my peripheral vision, white text on dark backgrounds can appear to dance around and appears to vibrate. I tend to use dark mode on most apps on my phone, and also began to notice that when I'm tired, white text on dark background appears to vibrate in my direct vision, not just my peripheral vision.
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I only found out about XSLT a year ago or so, when I was looking for a way to style my RSS feeds. I thought it was brilliant, and I set up some XSL templates for my feeds and sitemap. Not very long after, Chromium announced that it would be deprecating the technology.
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As soon as I heard that there was a laptop shell being developed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, I went to the Kickstarter page and made my pledge. I've seen a few rug pulls on Kickstarter, but I've been using Argon's cases for my Raspberry Pi's and I trust their work and them as company, so I had no concerns there.
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I worked out a simple solution to truncate my list of topics using only CSS. It's the only part of my website that really relies on JavaScript. It's wouldn't really be a heavy load for a script to run, but I didn't want to iterate over elements and individually hide them by applying a class to elements one at a time. It seemed like an unnecessary amount of computation, and I thought there was a lighter way to do it.
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I've managed to find some time to spend at my computer recently, after all the festivities and flu. I decided I would continue working on the accessibility and ARIA compliance on my main website. Next on the list was the filter search that I use on my index pages.
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