Some thoughts about the attitudes towards the intended audiences in FOSS
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The user is not a dumb, skittish animal -
Customizing Firefox Reader View fonts Adding your own fonts as an option in the Reader View of Firefox 129 -
Git as a database, kind of Keeping some JSON files in a Git branch using Nushell, and calling that a database -
Running Kerbal Space Program under NixOS A note on Kerbal Space Program under Linux,buildFHSEnv, andsteam-run -
Y2K, as seen on TV, as seen now Thoughts about Time Bomb Y2K, and the year 2000 problem in general -
Emojis: how they're made Overview of how emoji data gets into software -
Building a Pagefind UI I added Pagefind to my website, and decided to write a UI for it from scratch -
Ingesting secrets as a daemon A look into some of the ways that server software and other daemons handle reading secrets -
systemd credentials and NixOS containers Using systemd credential support outside and inside NixOS containers -
Embedding fonts in SVGs Making self-contained SVGs where fonts look right -
Embrace, extend, and then what? A look at the history of embrace, extend, extinguish and its possible future -
Light and dark color schemes with SVGs Using the CSS capabilities of SVG to make images which adapt to the preferred color scheme -
I switched to Eleventy One of those blog posts on somebody's website that's about their website -
Installing NixOS unconventionally A look into how NixOS is installed, and how to do it in unusual ways -
The recurring practice of spoiling Harry Potter A look at two different times when spoiling Harry Potter was a thing -
Git export substitutions and reproducibility A broad overview of how Nix derivations work, and how they are affected by Git export substitutions breaking reproducibility -
Brotlifying Nginx under NixOS Configuring Nginx under NixOS to serve responses compressed with Brotli -
Installing and patching fonts with Home Manager Discussing OpenType features, Nix derivations, and lazy Git as I install some fonts -
Switching non-NixOS Home Manager to flakes Converting a Home Manager configuration on non-NixOS to use Nix flakes -
Science fiction I've read recently Interesting science fiction books I have read, October 2020 -
Writing Fail2ban filters I stumble my way towards a Fail2ban filter -
Nim impressions My thoughts about the Nim programming language after trying it out -
HTML and captions An overview of the different ways of describing images in HTML -
Moving to Hugo Why and how I moved from Lektor to Hugo -
Dark mode on the web CSS support for dark modes, and its use in Firefox -
Displaying emoji on Linux Notes on the state of emoji rendering on Linux -
Tiling isometric tiles Some notes on how to render stuff using isometric tile sprites -
Collaboration graphs and Git Building collaboration graphs out of Git repositories in Python -
Keeping things in Perkeep An overview of how things like Mastodon toots can be stored in Perkeep -
Adventures in generating static sites Some remarks about Lektor and other static site generators