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Me in a gorgeous latex nun costume with intentionally teary eyeliner and a wooden rosary set. I bailed on my night because the outfit was kind of choking me and I'm dead after an absolutely brutal week but hey I looked hot for about 4 hours

Ibid

Goth Christmas innit

How did the major political parties get their colors? As the votes are tallied on election night and maps show which presidential candidate has a lead in each state, viewers likely won't need an explanation on why some states and red and others blue.

The GOP/Dems didn't even pick those colours! Someone at NYT decided to shade a choropleth a particular way in 2000 and now we're stuck with them. Even weirder, the colour associations were often the opposite up until then.

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I have a lot of thoughts on this in the context of data visualisation. Ask me about the diverging red/blue colour scale I had to rip out at the 11th hour recently because my team decided it made a graphic look too much like an election map... Red and blue are tainted colours for data vis.

Lmao cry harder Falkner

Love that panic that sets in 12h before a project publishes I'm so not sleeping tonight

I wouldn't say they're evil, they're pretty helpful for larger codebases, especially when multiple people are working on them, though maintaining dependencies and configuring build tools can be a right pain. You're correct that they're bad for learning fundamentals, though.

Chromium and WebKit locked in an eternal deathmatch of shit

Occasionally the dependencies install malware on the developer machine or create huge security issues in production; it's fine tho

Doing a bit better today

This year has aged me a decade

2025

Switching back to my .dev domain because honestly I don't really post about Northsky here, I mostly just moan about my life somewhere where I can avoid having my entire professional network see the endless despair I live through daily

It's like hide-and-seek except you never get to hide and what you're trying to find is poop

Playing my favourite game today (it's called "Y U BUNDLE REACT??")

"What do you want from your career?"

Idk man I'm just trying to survive out here.

Tummy hort

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes Ari Drennan, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

Who are the dolls which must be protected?

by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social

Increasingly feeling like if you can't make blocks private as a primary design goal of a protocol then you should probably go back to the drawing board...

I write this having spent two hours managing my NMS inventory this morning while now watching my partner manage their Minecraft inventory

What if... You removed the rest of the game??

Inventory Management Simulator 2026

Yeah, afaict each otf file only has one font weight in it, if you look at the files in dev tools it says each only has like 68 glyphs (!).

So if you have the "bold" font and set weight to bold, it'll try to emulate an even bolder version, I think.

Oh, just noticed that the other families are in fact other weights of CRM. You can use CRM as the font-family and use font-weight/font-style to set bold/italics by overloading the definition like so:

tangled.org/strings/did:...

My suggestion if you don't want to have separate display and body fonts is to change CRM to something with more variance. Is there a particular reason you're using it?

Safari dev tools, the CRM font has been given 600 weight. A tooltip says "Font was synthesized to be bold because no bold font is available"

The CRM font you're using doesn't have bold glyphs in it, so what I guess is happening is that Firefox (and Safari for that matter, if you set weight to 600 or higher) is emulating boldness; Safari has a helpful notice mentioning this:

*gentle sobs in the key of "Time To Fix Ozone"*

*homestar runner voice* twansgendaw

Cartoon of a man threatening another man with a knife. The other man backs away with his hands raised. Captioned "The things I need to get done" (the threatening man) and "just trying to relax on the weekend" (the one backing up)

git push —force —no-verify

Pabst Blue Ribbon can: Red white and blue can with ribbon logo

Kronenbourg 1664 can: Red white and blue can with ribbon logo

Kronenbourg 1664 is the Pabst Blue Ribbon of Europe, change my mind