Today I discovered html.energy: a website, a podcast, a movement. ❇️
Also, this is a pretty sweet poster written entirely in HTML. You can go ahead and print this from the browser—it looks great on a letter-sized piece of paper.
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Visited npr.org today and discovered Gotham (Hoefler&Co./Monotype) was swapped out for Lato (open source) recently.
I’m probably among the 0.5% to notice the typographic change, but yes, it threw me off.
🔗Andy Bell: Front-end is so much more than building designs
”Only by starting those fires have I developed into a more experienced designer and developer who knows the danger signs and importantly, learned the value of working slowly and methodically.”
I’m looking out for a lightweight weather widget (ideally one that does not track users).
The Dark Sky weather widget embed is still chugging along on my website. But there’s a warning notice on the Dark Sky website that API support is ending on March 31.
Three posts in January. I think that’s doable. Bring Back Blogging is an initiative (and directory of participants) to kick of the newww year with a healthy blogging habit. Sign up before December 31st.
I signed up with my regular address (not my microblog) becuase I’d love to post more than once a month over there.
Neat little dark mode UI feature: The Vivaldi browser (in dark mode) will highlight the favicon on your active tab with a tiny white outline. Looks beautiful with SVG icons.
Download Vivaldi from https://vivaldi.com/
Lara Aigmüller: How to transfigure wireframes into HTML
This year’s HTMHell Advent Calendar is off to a great start!
Text Cleaner
Link: Text Cleaner When you copy text from a word processor, PDF, web page, or client brief, you usually copy all the formatting and unwanted characters. There might be duplicate line breaks, multiple spaces, wrong quotation marks, escaped HTML tags, different letter cases, and other details that you want to remove or change to “unformat” your text. Text Cleaner offers a quick and easy way to do so. The all-in-one text cleaning and formatting online tool performs all necessary operations for you to bring copied text into shape.
I got early access to a managed version of Equalify, an open source accessibility platform by Blake Bertuccelli. Right now, the main integration is with WAVE, an automated accessibility checker, with integrations with both Drupal and WordPress coming soon. Check out the app roadmap, and repo on GitHub.
As I spend more time using the product, I will write up a more detailed overview with screenshots.
Intention vs. Drift
Jason Lengstorf: Intention vs. Drift — Let’s Learn Design Systems, Part 1 Since design systems happen whether we want them to or not, our task is not to decide whether or not we need one. We need to decide if we’re better served by being intentional about our design system decisions or letting the design system drift to see what emerges from real-world use. Most design systems fall somewhere in between intentional and emergent.