It was my Dad’s funeral yesterday. I don’t know why, but I felt the need to post the eulogy I gave. Maybe I thought he deserved some kind of public recognition – he was a lovely person and a great friend to many.

https://clagnut.com/blog/2448

For some reason the Boy's school is making him 'learn' pi (not learn _about_ pi). So I showed him this classic article from NASA: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

Dear Apple - if you spent less time trying force your 'premium' AI crap down my throat and more time on basics like support for variable font axes then maybe, just maybe I'd be interested. (Not likely).

So right: “I wish designers took more inspiration from print today — this is one of the things we lost as more and more web designers only look at the distilled design on the current web”

https://front-end.social/@kizu/115043800246596495

All the stuff you needed to know as a front-end developer in 2015 (HTML5, all the CSS modules, ARIA, vanilla JavaScript, and how to apply it all in a responsive, performant, accessible, progessively-enhanced manner). All that still applies. And now there's awesome stuff like this as well: https://webkit.org/blog/16794/the-css-shape-function/

Mind blown.

(And if your job is visual design rather than coding, you still need to know that stuff too.)

#css

✏️ Another uncalled-for blog post about the ethics of using AI.

Hype, copyright, eugenics, usefulness.

https://clagnut.com/blog/2440