Notices by Dave Rupert (davatron5000@mastodon.social)

🚀 New micro-project: Grid Paper. A little app for creating printable grid and graph paper.

https://grid-paper.daverupert.com/

Damn this is a thorough and concise article on Liquid Glass in CSS using SVG filters. https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/

I will forever be mystified why I –a person who is consistently confounded by punctuation and participles– picked a career where a typo or missing semi-colon will fuck you up entirely.

When you wisper to yourself "I wish Excel supported CSS"... it's probably time to pack it up, close the laptop, and take inventory of your life and all the decisions that led up to this point.

Weird keyboard alert. https://svalboard.com/

A 10” mini-rack mount for building a home server lab. It would be fun to build something like this and host little web apps from a raspberry pi. But then I remember why I quit self-managing servers…

https://youtu.be/y1GCIwLm3is

📝 Well, today's as good as day as any other day to let you know my website has been gaslighting you for the last six months.

https://daverupert.com/2025/01/color-hue-rotating-gaslight/

Celebrate David Lynch's life by doing something weird. And maintain that level of weirdness for decades.

📝 I know it's the end of year and I should be doing a yearly wrap up post but this one aspect of #css has been noodling at me for awhile now.

https://daverupert.com/2024/12/css-wants-to-be-a-system/

One thing I’m becoming more sensitive to is: Corpoganda is not news.

Similarly, tweets are not news.

📝 New post https://daverupert.com/2024/12/adhd/

What a friggin' year for CSS

https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/

Great article by @DavidDarnes about the intersection of #DesignSystems and prototypes, which is an intersection I care about a lot.

Being able to prototype with your design system OUTSIDE of the primary application in a tool like CodePen unlocks ideas and unblocks teams.

https://zeroheight.com/blog/prototypes-with-design-systems/

The Website vs Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist by @jakelazaroff

Loved this post. I have pre-existing biases here because I hate it when people get high and mighty about “apps” or say “the document web” so they can forego basic HTML or a11y. ughck.

But I think Jake’s four quadrant chart of offline ↔️ online vs static ↔️ dynamic is a much better framework to discuss the differences/nuances in the type of projects we work on.

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/the-website-vs-web-app-dichotomy-doesnt-exist/

Candidate you don't like in office? They taxing you too much? Raise your prices. Then use your extra money to run news stories about how bad inflation is. Fund a candidate that will give you tax cuts. Bingo bango! Now you're charging more AND get tax cuts. That's wealth, baby!

What are people actually* using as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator for creating and editing SVGs?

* Please don't Google just stuff and reply, I'm looking for actual humans who have found replacement software.

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[interior: Unicode consortium]

> Hey, should we have a glyph for a pointing finger?
Absolutely
> What about filled and outlined triangle?
Sure, but make them all different sizes.
> What about arrows?
Yeah, make tons but never a full set pointing in all directions. I'm talking seven 3D arrows but they all face right.
> Dominos?
Fuckin' all of them, man. Horizontal and vertical. Let's take that part seriously.

US politics is wild. You have one candidate with some pretty concrete plans to help the middle class and one candidate who’s like “Immigrants are eating your pets!” and somehow there are still undecided voters.

What RSS needs:

1. You. Your content. Your thoughts. Your gripes. Your hearts. Your stars. Your photos. Your fears. Your bad ideas that went nowhere. Your good ideas that still went nowhere. Your perspective on an issue that's been trodden over a thousand times. Your insight. Your wisdom. Your experience.