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I thought I'd seen a lot of awful and broken websites, and then I learned about MapQuest

A lot of CSS hackery later, and I've managed to construct a popover dialog using a <details> element that doesn't disrupt the button order and also doesn't require any JS to work!

TIL about the Kodak Disc Transporter, which seems to have been a peripheral you could connect to your computer back in the day to automatically load and unload CD-Rs from your computer as you were burning them?

I can arbitrarily recolor the plane now, without having to redo the gradients!

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Today, I'm practicing with mesh gradients in Inkscape. Which are cool but damn, Inkscape doesn't exactly make them easy...

(Original silhouette by Andreas 06 on Wikimedia Commons; the cutting up into parts and 'texturing' is my work)

health, meds 

So this is what my post-transplantation morning medication looks like now (which is one of four medication moments, though it is the biggest pile)

health, + 

This is my favourite graph right now

Encountered some rays from the clouds on my way to the hospital

And it's not exactly a *small* difference we're talking about here either:

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If you've ever wondered why so many websites are a fragile JS hellscape, here's what a typical conversation in a web development channel might look like, and I think that tells you all you need to know

Don't mind me, just implementing automatic image hiding and album grouping in my client

Today in more obscure news: the manufacturer of the de-facto standard municipal trashbin in the Netherlands, has declared bankrupcy

Voorbereidingen voor Te Land, Ter Zee En In De Lucht in de Efteling

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