Nigel Chapman

(Best and simplest, IMO, to just use direct multiples of the line height for the main headings.)

(The whole idea is "vertical rhythm", in which the next thing to read is precisely where the brain expects it to be. The effect _seems_ real.)

Basically, even though CSS has ex measures (for x-height), you still can't quite locate the baseline without knowing the metrics of the font being used, or one almost identical to it (e.g., in my case, Plex has the same metrics as Roboto).

Side-by-side comparison of the typefaces IBM Plex Serif and Roboto Serif.

I've been tinkering around with a baseline grid in CSS lately. This is where all your lines of text sit on a constant line-spacing even when subheadings have different sizes. The linked article sums it all up.

hnldesign.hashnode.dev/setting-a-fl...

Still, I benefit from people collecting. Its like with musical instruments: the collectors keep the market going, which gives the rest of us both more and better quality choices.

^^ +1. There are a few different applications that might justify having half a dozen pens you actually use, especially if you write everyday and sometimes all day. I do, and fountain pens are best for that. But I don't get collecting them. 1/2

Wait, what? The newer ones are better, surely? Better built, quicker to refill, more choices in every way. A Lamy 2000, Pelikan M800, or Pilot Vanishing Point will write all day every day and never need replacing.

P 46 Manuscript, University of Michigan copy : God : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Late second century or early third century (c. 200) manuscript of Paul on papyrus; 86 leaves, single column, 23–26 lines per column. Images are from the...

Also, this is public domain.

(My personal focus is mostly Pauline.)

archive.org/details/P46B...

I see no copyright info on this site, but these are the sort of imaeg size and quality I'm after...

earlybible.com/manuscripts/...

List of New Testament papyri - Wikipedia

How many #NewTestament #manuscript photos are in the public domain? Seems like an odd qn for such old documents, but they don't seem to exist on GitHub/WikiMedia. I'm wanting to make a little online reader app for educational purposes and as a UX/UI experiment.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Antonio Gramsci quote: "The old world is dying, and the new world struggle to be born. Now is the time of monsters."

Finally gotten a flex fountain pen and starting to figure it out. This is a Pilot 912. I might post some incremental progress pictures as I get better...

‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis? The bulk of global greenhouse gas emissions come from countries that are not democratic, and many big oil and gas exporters are also authoritarian

“The problem with democracies is that capital can exert much more pressure than any other stakeholder.” The big queasiness for the next few years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who or Transformers.

Christians, Conspiracies, and Slander by Nigel Chapman This seems to be a reason why conspiracy theories are so disruptive in churches. Making public accusations guarantees that either one side or the other will be wrong at a moral level, whether throu…

For Christians, doing conspiracy theories well means exposing evil without committing slander.

(An article of mine on the #WithAllDueRespect podcast's new online magazine.)

#christian #conspiracy #slander

thewadrproject.com/2025/07/07/c...

Sky News post on Facebook containing only an employee's opinion.

Every time I see a @skynewsau.bsky.social piece on Facebook these days, it seems to be just announcing, as if it were news, one of their own employee's opinions.

I saw someone point out earlier that latinos are just on 65M.

Earth! Sea! Earth! Sea!

Headline containing the term roommate.

Surely @australia.theguardian.com is confusing housemate with roommate in this headline.

YouTube video by Philomena Cunk Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Douglas Hedley

Hedley! Surely the best of the regular #Cunk interviewees. youtu.be/kyFrCFciK-Q?...

#QuietPosters was far and away the best bluesky #feed. It highlighted the people who posted infrequently. Alas, it's has been offline for a while now.

I don't use them but I've seen Architect's nibs mentioned as standard equipment for Arabic and Hebrew scripts, with the wider cross strokes.

Ebay ratings with the exact same review message.

Sold a thing on eBay, but the buyer looks to be part of a reputation farming bot network...

Q. What are the good online #mindmap tools? Ideally something that can attach text to nodes and produce whole documents. (I'm liking mindmeister, of those I've tried, though I haven't yet found the keystroke to edit the current node.)

github.com/crawl/crawl/... #instructions

Pleasantly surprised to see that #crawl (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, #dcss) compiles easily on Ubuntu 25. This release deprecated key-add for security reasons, so the `apt install crawl` instructions don't work, and the proper, URL-specific, way to install the keys is fiddlier than just compiling.

A Splintered Generation - Christianity Today Evangelicalism's fracturing is chronic, but not terminal. Keller Center staff Skyler R. Flowers and Michael Graham offer wisdom on how we can move forward.

Here's an interesting long read on #Evangelical fracturing in the USA: it makes the interesting point that it's not just positions but 'posture' that drive divisions, that is to say, not just being affectively or ideologically polarised, but it's also behaving in sharply different ways in response.

My dear @theguardian.com -- I have just three words for your swishy new design... `text-wrap: balance` !!

The Residence, on Netflix, is a curious and entertaining murder mystery. It has a Knives Out vibe, but is about nine hours long, so there are so many clues and red herrings that you don't get the "How did I miss that?" feeling at the end. You feel you would need the protagonist's eidetic memory.

Australian politics. Charts showing male and female two-party voting intentions over the past year.

Could be the Aussie Left is being a little to smug about the big election win. The LNP only lost it in the last few months through foreign intervention (Trump) and their own reflexive policy lurch toward the fringe, which especially alienated women, when that kicked in. #auspol #womenproblem

Reminded of this today by the reports that Macquarie University's Ancient Languages School may be closed down. I'd still be taking occasional courses there if I still lived in Sydney. There's nothing like it in the country. You might be able to draw a hemisphere in which there's nothing like it.