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Vasilis
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The lineup for the first The Web You Want conference is complete, and tickets can be grabbed. Very, very much looking forward to seeing ALL of you there. There will be talks by @marleenstikker@waag.social, by @hdv@front-end.social, by @html5test@front-end.social and more!
Last Friday we hosted the first The Web You Want event. I wrote down some thoughts:
Had a wonderful time at The Web You Want. I loved the speakers, their topics: the seriousness, the fun, the unexpected subjects, and the weirdness.
Thanks to my students for their fantastic work, and thanks to @marleenstikker@waag.social, @hdv@front-end.social, Sanne Peters, Justus Sturkenboom, and @html5test@front-end.social for their excellent talks, and thanks to all visitors for visiting!
The event in June is not sold out yet.
Ugh javascript. I want client side php.
Just now @astridpoot@mastodon.social pointed me at this post by @ruari@velocipederider.com about the Japanese “30 hour system.”
I still had this web version of a digital clock laying around, so I turned it into a 30 hour clock (which is only really interesting to look at between midnight and 6 o’clock in the morning)
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And here’s a slightly different version. I made it especially for those clock purists among you who think the hours should always be on the smaller circle.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/shop/05/
This oklch colour picker is the most fantastic colour picker I’ve ever seen.
☞ https://xcza.github.io/Color-Picker/
And it’s just a single 75 KB HTML file. The install process in the readme is excellent as well.
I made a version of the Literary Clock that only uses quotes that tell the time in vague terms.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/literary-about-clock/
(Most quotes are in Dutch, many in English, a few in Greek, and one in German. The language attribute should change, so I assume it works with a screenreader as well)
A fungus in our garden
I found a good chatbot.
I just received a wonderful email that started with “Actually, wait a minute…”
Ugh javascript. Such an awful language.
Making a clock.
In the slow process of moving away from apple, I switched phones. I now use a delightfully clumsy Mudita Kompakt.
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What I like most about this clock is that it tells the exact time only for 40 seconds every hour.
At the whole hour it says “It is nine o’clock”, but ten seconds later it will add the phrase “or thereabouts” to it. It also does this at the quarters and at the half hours.
I especially like this in Dutch, where the added phrase is “pak ’m beet”.
There is so much to say about The Web You Want, the event we hosted last Friday, but I decided to write just about the bad web, the better web, the fun web and about the thoughtful web.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/nerd/2026/i-like-the-web-they-want/
If you wrote about the event on your own site, please let me know and I’ll link to it.
The Web You Want is almost sold out. If you want to join anyways you are allowed to sneak in, of course.
It’s on the ninth floor of the Kohnstamm building. Looking forward to seeing you all there this afternoon.
Tickets for The Web You Want (day 2) are going steady. You can grab your free ticket as well, before they’re all gone.
I really like the program, to me it looks as promising as day one. I’ll try to finalise the schedule this week.
Added quite some new pictures to the Pix Clock.
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@MauriceMeilleur Hurray, this works! And your reply appears in my timeline so I guess things work as they should.
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@eWalthert @letterror Could be possible. It is a good idea, I always forget about these images
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@eWalthert @kai I upgraded my 13 mini to 26 a while ago and I can still do all the, mostly useless, things I do with my phone.
We should start a 13 mini club.
You can grab your — free! — tickets for The Web You Want on the 17th of April right here.
Ik ben zojuist medestander geworden van The Firewall, omdat ik weiger toe te kijken hoe techgiganten onze democratie ondermijnen.
I added a few clocks to my clocks page. I will try to keep it updated.
It now shows the clocks in a truly unordered list.
My colleague Justus Sturkenboom published his philosophical reflection on the words “The, web, you” and “want”. It is a text only version of the brilliant talk he gave at The Web You Want.
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@pixelambacht I just used it again, and it made me very happy, again. Thank you so much!
To font-feature-settings: "ss03" or not to font-feature-settings: "ss03", that’s the question.
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Does anyone know where I can buy plain epubs of american books here in europe? So no amazon, and no adobe drm, just plain epubs that I am allowed to use however I want.
Just 15 places left for The Web You Want, tomorrow.
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@josgeluk Heel tof. Zulk soort klokken waren de inspiratie voor deze klok, alleen wil ik de tijd liever ‘ongeveer’ weten
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@paul@social.van.buu.re Ik wil ook zo’n kastje in mijn kruipruimte. Hoe kom je daar aan? @freedominternet@mastodon.social
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@Mdubbelm@mastodon.social Ooh leuk, listenbrainz had ik nog nooit van gehoord. En wat is Dry toch een goede plaat!
The Fakultät Design at the HAW in Hamburg is looking for a Professur für das Lehrgebiet „Typografie“. Sounds like a nice Vollzeitstelle for someone at typo.social.
☞ https://stellenportal.haw-hamburg.de/jobposting/c42cedbb396fcfa3accf5157e9760ff76b3772d40
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@remcow @eWalthert Generating screenshots on my server is not too hard, but generating a screenshot while you’re looking at the page, and setting it as an OG image as soon as it’s ready, is a bit harder. Working on it.
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@reimar @eWalthert @kai @kupfers Ooh thanks! I didn’t know about the tinted setting. Also some accessibility setting make it a bit less awful to look at: I checked show borders, reduce transparency and increase contrast.
Rebooting, brb.
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I’m creating a workshop to teach my students some basics about CSS. Absolute beginners. The goal is to give them a few tools/insights/tricks with big impact: when they use those tricks their websites will not be ugly, and maybe even nice.
For instance, simple things like `max-width: 30em;` for text, or `color-scheme: light dark;` or powerful selector stuf like `:nth-of-type(2n)`.
Any ideas?
Are there modern computer screens that emit no light when they display black pixels?
Is anyone I know on Listenbrainz?