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TIL the word “Tesselate”, which is a repeating pattern, like a honeycomb. ⬣

TIL background-blend-mode and a background-image is the only way to do a mix blend mode on an image. You can’t do that with an absolutely-positioned <img> tag.

From @andy_blum.

Follow up food shots from Sunday’s supper club.

We started with some fish in a really nice sauce. Don’t you wish I remembered anything more specific? Me too.

Close up of fish in a light white sauce, garnished with some herbs in a white plate.

Then we had slice duck with grilled eggplant with a walnut and pecan sauce. That yellow Swiss cheese cracker looking dude is fried flower oil. Bonkers.

Close up of sliced duck and eggplant in a white plate.

After that, we lightened it up with tamale, cheese, and pickled tomatillo with a unique salsa verde. Almost all the ingredients here are from pre-colonial Mexico.

A blurry close up of half eatne corn tamales and cheese smeared with salsa verde sauce on a white plate.

Finally, we finished with a moist polenta cake with some sort of sweet, tangy jam and this light, sugary cracker cookie that I forget the name of.

Close up of a thick, brown cake, almost zuccini bread looking, with a dark red jam with a fruit that looks like strawberries but isn't. There's a half eaten cookie with some of the jam on it and sugar coating. All on a white plate.

The chefs gave wonderful explanation on each dish, and I can’t remember it. Thankfully, the pictures speak for themselves. All these shots were taken by my friend Jenny.

My smart talented colleague Laura Donalan is co-leading Untangling Your Drupal Migration: Lessons from the State of Iowa. If you’re considering any CMS data migration, it’s well worth a look.

Today I learned the term Data Piggy.

A tech sector Venture Capitalist who stuffs their little piggy faces on people’s private information until their little piggie overall buttons pop off their engorged little piggy bodies.

Seems incredibly useful. 👍

Gripping read about one of the first women hackers, by Claire Evans for The Verge. I read this years ago, and only now getting around to sharing it.

In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared.

Vim Macro Trickz by Hillel Wayne is just that. For the vimthusiasts.

I found this conceptually sprawling UX article in the depths of my reading list. It’s several years old, so you may spot an outdated reference or two, but the points are still salient.

The Future is Analog (if you can afford it), by Maroussia Lévesque, explores the “analog privilege” of economic elites to escape the automation and A.I. they apply to everyone else.

I spent last Sunday in Central Park with my friend Lindsay, playing with her medium format film camera. She taught me how to focus, the F-stop, the focal range, and even got to peak inside and see how the entirely mechanical apparatus worked. So satisfyingly tactile. Thanks Lindsay!

It's a bright day with a metal foundtain as the focus. The fountain has a decorative angle on top. There's red cobbles on the ground, and trees in the background. Several people of various ethnicities mill around and sit on the lip of the fountain.

A big dog on a leash, sleeping outside. The dog's people, a white couple wearing sunglasses, are sitting nearby, holding the leash.

Green water with two box turtles, just their shells poking out from the surface.

Green water with bushy, green plant clusters popping out in curated clumps. There's a fountain spilling water down in sparkled drops in the top left edge.

A castle looking structure shot from a low angle against a bright blue sky. A leafy tree with twisting branches hangs between the viewer and the castle.

A park square with many dozens of people enjoying the day, shot from above. There's a fountain in the middle, and behind that is green water. People in row boast glide across the surface, and there's green trees behind on the opposite bank. In the extreme forground, out of focus, is the top of a low wall overlooking the square. A plastic water bottle rests atop it.

Taking gruvbox for a spin today for the first time in years. I’m digging it.

A screenshot of some PHP code in the Gruvbox light theme, is described as a retro groove theme.

leading-trim is dope, y’all. Can’t wait for it to ship.

Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting by Ethan Wang.

All valid Drupal render array types

I couldn’t find a browsable list of valid Drupal core values for #type fields in render arrays. I just wanted to know what was possible in one place. Andy Blum’s Drupal Smart … Read more

Hot take: the <dl> element is underused.

TIL that the CSS relative color spec says that currentColor is supported, but no browser supports it. Sad times.

Couldn’t agree more with not blindly following data.

TIL that in JavaScript, non-strict mode is called sloppy mode.

After seven months, I have the router, pi-hole ad-blocker, and media server setup. ⌛️🤓

A screenshot of the Neovim editor. There's some PHP code, and a skull and crossbones in the sign column.

I configured my Neovim LSP error symbol to a skull and cross bones, so now whenever I write bad code I feel like a pirate. 🏴‍☠️

TIL guthub.com redirects to github.com. I’m sad it isn’t a recipe site.

Three zines, Bite Size Command Line, How Git Works, and HTTP: Learn Your Browser's Language, all by Julia Evans, are splayed out on a dark wood table.

Just got my zines from Julia Evans. Very excited to dig in.

I gave a short presentation on CSS Subgrid last night at the Astoria Tech Meetup. Lots of good conversations afterwards. Thanks to everyone who came out!

TIL MLP. Instead of MVP, the Minimum Viable Product, it’s the Minimum Lovable Product. I like that.

Getting my ass whipped at Magic: The Gathering at friendly local draft. The game has changed a lot in twenty years (who’d have thought?). Lots of fun still.

Today is my second anniversary working for Lullabot. Joining the team is still one of the best decisions I’ve made. 😴🤖