Kevin Newcombe

I've been using a Mac Mini for the past few months and the amount of random bugs compared to the Apple laptops I've used for the 15 years prior is astonishing. Today's wierdness: after moving rooms, there's apparently a specific order in which I need to plug in my 3 monitors for them to work.

The Coca-Cola Company had produced a clear cola in the past, produced as a secret one-off made as a particular political favor between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and top Soviet General Georgy Zhukov. Clear Coca-Cola, named White Coke, was produced to disguise the beverage as vodka.

I did not expect Dwight Eisenhower to make an appearance on Crystal Pepsi’s Wikipedia page.

Eating all 10 wings on Hot Ones without drinking milk should be a prerequisite for being named pope.

Photo of a traffic intersection in Banff, Alberta, with a pair of moose crossing the street.

Hey moose, no crossing on a red light.

Kind of bummed that BBC radio will soon be unavailable outside the UK. For the past 20 years, I've been introduced to a lot of great new music via Steve Lamacq (and now Huw Stephens') shows.

In my ongoing quest to make things responsive that shouldn't be responsive, I give you a word search puzzle.

Find it on @codepen.io : codepen.io/kevinnewcomb...

Snow fall/melt in Banff yesterday.

a man wearing glasses says " you are talking to a level 7 system coordinator " Alt: Wendle from Skeleton Crew with the subtitle "Son, you are talking to a level 7 system coordinator."

It's now limited to people cosplaying as Wendle.

Screenshot of a tool for AI alt text generation, which states the following. "Alt tag attributes are necessary for increasing SEO and page accessibility. Why rely on a human to manually write descriptions for every image on your site? "

I kind of hate everything about this. Alt text is meant for humans, not search engines, and you still need a human to determine what context (if any) an image adds to a web page.

There is something oddly satisfying about hand-coding SVGs, like "woah, I'm drawing with math."

Sue Storm The Invisible Woman puts her hand on Spider-Man’s shoulder as he slumps in the car driver’s seat, steering wheel in his hands

Hooray, the bot I made posted for the first time on its own.

Had very tempered expectations for Skeleton Crew, but 3 episodes in and this show is fun as hell.

Screenshot of an email from Duolingo containing the headline "Are you safe from Duo?" beneath their mascot.

No one is safe from Duo.

I just realized that when you search for a font, Google will sometimes display results in said font.

Pure CSS Wordle A Pure CSS version of Wordle. Uses style queries and anchors tied to scroll-driven animations to do most of the heavy lifting....

Had a lot of fun working on this one. Via @codepen.io, here's a (Chrome only) pure CSS version of Wordle.
codepen.io/kevinnewcomb...

Emulating media queries like prefers-contrast

My kingdom for a Goodreads API.

Made a script yesterday that pulls down still images from publicly accessible traffic cameras at regular intervals, with the goal of creating a timelapse video that spans several months. 24 hours in and I've been obsessively checking it all day like "Woah, it's 3 more frames longer now."