Activity for vale.rocks

I consider magnets to be complete wizardry and I've got one in my hand! They really do just seem magicial.

I spent several hours today taking screenshots of game console user interfaces for an article I'm releasing on Monday. 'But Vale, you could have just gotten them from the 'net!' Shhh. I just wanted fancy high-res uncompressed pictures that look pretty.

A website, bu— Wait. A website? A website? No. This is The Website. The undisputed. The final. The definite article. The Website. Navigate to it and weep.

Woah, I hadn't even realised this was on the table! light-dark() is one of my favourite CSS features of the past few years.

I have this one Next.js project I haven't touched in a few years, and every few weeks I get an email from GitHub with a new security advisory for it.

There is a new entry on Strangers by Spring.

Project Wallace will not be exposed to these horrors. It wouldn't be fair to subject it to that. This is some stupid, complex legacy CSS that overwrites several assorted absurdly complex stylesheets from over a decade ago. Some of the specificity is wild, as I've got to bypass various !importants.

I've seen people killed for lesser crimes than writing the CSS I just wrote.

Just discovered a set of polyfills for WebKit on iOS that bring new web features to unsupported devices. This is particularly useful as WebKit versions are tied to OS versions. Installable on gaolbroken devices. Brilliant project developed by @poomsmart.bsky.social. github.com/PoomSmart/Po...

One thing I love about the web is that you can publish stuff and people will see it. Even without publicising it, people still somehow discover stuff you've made. Magical.

The use and arrangement of words in this post would quite likely muddle a 17th-century peasant's mind to the point of death.

I'll clarify that I'm absolutely gonna be journeying. I'm in too deep now. A unicycle, a tent, a bit of public transport. What could go wrong?

I'm afraid I'll return after my journeys and find my cousins have sold off all my possessions.

I've hit the point in the research of an article that I'll have to journey for dozens of hours to conduct interviews and visit various small towns, museums, monuments, libraries, and state archives to get any further.

AI bubble on its way to pop:

A car is hurtling towards a crowd. The majority of people seem not to care about the car. They don't see the danger or think they'll be alright anyway. Some understand the danger, so are trying to get out of the way and convince others to do the same. Some people think the car is a good thing.

I've had a simultaneously personally tough and very busy spell. I'm not free of it yet, but I'm hoping to pick things back up this week and put plans back into action.

I have absolutely no issue with cuts saving time. My post was merely finding interest in the fact that we don't find cuts jarring or disorienting given that they don't occur in usual life.

Ooh, that is an interesting way to think about it. I think of memories and imagination much more like swirling connected thoughts and concepts, but if one were to try to straighten that out into something linear, I suppose the cuts of a film are pretty close to what they'd get.

I think myself, and @stealthbirder.bsky.social and yourself, have considered this in very different and interesting ways. You both view the change of context or what cannot be comprehended at once, whereas I consider the instantaneous jumping to another shot. Interesting interpretations.