I just stumbles upon Chris Smith's Making a font of my handwriting. That is just lovely. I might do that someday. My "logo" for this site (and 10-15 personal projects since circa 2007) has been my handwritten signature. Scanned, cleaned and vectorized. I mostly use it as a .png tho.
In the last decade, steaming has changed from something smart and convenient to a roach hotel.
And to make matters worse, when I started watching something else on Apple TV, I experience pauses and spinners. I could'nt even watch something else with a decent experience.And this sums up my experience with streaming services: I activate a subscription to watch something, and then there are a all these minor inconviniences: Content recommendations are forced in my face, sometimes with auto-play; search is sub-par; performance is erratic; and somehow, whenever there is something I want to watch, it is marked as 'disappearing soon' or only available on different service. And I need to make sure I unsubscribe again to avoid building up a monthly bill across multiple services.
Oh, and services are now adding ads to their plans. Second oh, I once had to cancel a credit card to get out ot Amazon Prime.
Congratulations! Capitalism just found a way to reinvent cable TV with a higher price point.
No wonder some are moving back to buying media in thrift stores or pirating online.
Ok - I'm not advocating piracy. But I am considering going back to DVDs for my favorites. Regarding piracy, and the If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing,Joris van Dijk has a (boring) point.
After five years, a career change and a lot of hands-on experience with frontend frameworks in my daily work in software, it is time to update my personal site. The old site ran on Quarto and I either needed to update that template and commit myself to writing more using the tools in quarto. Or roll my own site. In Quarto I was writing in Markdown and let Quarto render the site to HTML before publishing on Github pages. For a brief moment, I was tempted to jump at Obsidian Publish, but I do not need another subscription in my life.
So instead of writing markdown and converting it to HTML, how different is it to just write HTML? After all, one of the key ideas in Ted Nelson's Literary Machines and later in Tim Berners-Lee's Information Management: A Proposal is that we should write HyperText and link it together.
So in this iteration of my site, I want to see how far plain old HTML5 and CSS can get me. I know I will add Javascript etc. because interactivity is really nice. In reality, I also want to avoid setting up a complex system that I need to maintain and will get in the way of writing stuff. So here is the stack in all it's glory: