Today in thieves, cheats & grifters on the internet. Talent500, who have a gold check account on twitter, copied a few bits of my article that I worked for 3 weeks on. Could not even be bothered to copy enough to get to a working solution, stopped at intermediary steps. And "forgot" to give credit.

@demesos.bsky.social I've been enjoying your onehourjam games! I would've gone crazy on the Wrestling Manager as a 12-year-old. I always loved Football Manager despite not being into football *at all* Anyway, I admire your productivity! Thanks for the games.

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"9 out of 10 AIs recommend our keyboards!" 🤦‍♂️

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FontJit just graduated to v1.1.0! 🎓 You can now also tap into the loading with JavaScript, listening to promises and doing your computer programming based on how they resolve. Still very lean at 743 bytes (minified and compressed, of course) github.com/RoelN/FontJit

Chapters have been added to yesterdays livestream of Typography News No. 23 👀 Includes type designs by @igorfreiberger.bsky.social, @nicksherman.bsky.social, Brandon Nickerson, Fontfabric, The Designers Foundry, TypeType, Teo Tuomiminen, along with news about Affinity, Adobe, & FontLab

FontJit is a small utility to efficiently lazy-load fonts! 🚀 FontJit gives you full control over how and when your fonts are loaded, and what should happen before, during and after. Useful if you're working on font specimen sites, minisites, or huge font collections! ➡️ github.com/RoelN/FontJit

Hey, were we friends in the Twitter days? I don't seem to get much Engagement™ here on Bluesky and I wonder if that's because the algorithm is shunning me, or because I only post occasionally (cause: little engagement!), or maybe simply because nobody likes me here :P Anyway, wanna be friends?

Type-X is back! Easily test your fonts on *any* website with this Chrome extension. This was originally published about 5 years ago, but stopped working due to browser evolution. Now it's fixed, updated and ready to go! github.com/arrowtype/ty...

Dan Cederholm: ✔️ Wrote a book on CSS (literally) ✔️ Co-founded Dribbble ✔️ Made a typeface inspired by a bank alarm sign ✔️ Designed fonts, dice, T-shirts, newsletters … and finally found what he wants to do at 51. 🎧 Watch it → youtu.be/PUXK-yB3LEM?... #CreativeCareer #SimpleBits #DesignPodcast

I did some UX! ✊

I added a site-wide font size slider to the Wakamai Fondue bètà. It will change *all* font previews, even the ones that didn't have a font-size slider before! wakamaifondue.com/beta/ Give it a spin and let me know what you think!

I'm trying out a new variable instance preview on Wakamai Fondue Bětâ. Instead of the green/yellow wall of buttons, I simply preview all of the instances, including the line of CSS you'd need for them. Check it out on wakamaifondue.com/beta/ and let me know what you think!

A few of my more Gothic-like pixel fonts. ❤️ Part of my font bundle, around 55 fonts currently near 80% off! itch.io/s/107531/meg... Cheers! 🙂 #pixelart #ドット絵 #font #pixelfont

I just pushed a small change to wakamaifondue.com/beta/ to improve the OpenType feature previews. I removed the randomized combinations as they weren't very useful and nobody seemed to like 'em. So the fondue now just shows *all* characters involved in the feature. Also, custom preview for `frac`!

My first real change to Wakamai Fondue's UI is to remove the donation button. It never worked: people only donated twice, and only after I explicitly posted about it on social media, which felt like begging. All donations have been re-distributed to the amazing folks who contributed code! 💸

Had a great conversation with @sjoy.lol today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby starting in the late 90s, before eventually turning it into a career much later on. We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility and I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: getting the fireworks in Lighthouse! 💖 The recent refactoring and improvements to the Wakamai Fondue beta paid off. Deliriously happy about this!! Try it yourself: wakamaifondue.com/beta

I'm always happy when a new Grilli Type minisite hits the scene! gt-era.com Oh, the font it super sick too 💯

Spent the last few days doing some tidying-upping of the Wakamai Fondue codebase. Feels *good* to finally scratch some of those itches. Also, OpenType feature detection is more robust and doesn't take down the entire "Layout Features" section anymore if it crashes! wakamaifondue.com/beta/

Tested with Altesse Pro. wakamaifondue.com/beta/ works nicely. 😍

I just updated wakamaifondue.com/beta/ again! If your huge font was stalling the fondue, it should work now. I applied supercomputer voodoo programming (a.k.a. memoization) so it can better handle huge charsets. It now parses this huge-ass 12MB font in 30 seconds on my machine!

I have just updated wakamaifondue.com/beta after a long time of inactivity 🤯 It might not be a big deal—it works slightly better than before—but it's been a long time coming. I'll tell you about it someday over a beer. Let me know if something is (still) broken, or even better, if it now works!

Are your fonts breaking Wakamai Fondue? Or not all features showing up correctly? I'm looking for fonts to stress-test the fondue, especially the bétà. (Protip: if you open the developer tools, the console might have reported an error that the site itself doesn't mention!)

Unexpectedly, the CSSWG have accepted our proposal for a new <meta name=text-scale> tag!! This will change the initial font size based on the user's text size setting. Unfortunately it's going to become part of the boilerplate for every website you make! But will really improve a11y.

Help me find a C64 SID tune that covers the Last Ninja 3 water level? I never knew the Last Ninja version by Reyn Ouwehand, yet I know that melody at the start really well. But I have no idea where I heard it. Probably another Commodore 64 demo. Any ideas? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUd...

This 5.25" floppy disk was stored in an uninsulated attic for the past 25 years, where the weight of the other disks made it bend over the diskbox edge. It loaded with zero errors! OId tech is awesome! 💖

I would never consider myself a natural speaker... I always feel I have a long way to go. Speaking at CSS Day was sort of a dream come true, something I never imagined possible. I thought I should write about this experience in a personal heartfelt article: utilitybend.com/blog/css-day...

If you, like me, are easily confused or scared off by font licensing being → vague! → weird! → opaque! → illogical! → lawyery! → ununderstandable! then please help the good folks at FontStand to make sense of them! fontstand.com/survey

@miriam.codes Hey Miriam! I was looking for the business site, but can't find it (it was business.³ wasn't it?) Anyway, still convinced that the choppiest of transitions between s and $ communicates *serious* business. Are you using plain Times? Would something like Merriweather work? Can hack s→$!

📢 New variable font! “Skune is designed to have the jagged, frenetic appeal of lo-fi garage punk.” heydonworks.com/article/skun...

I learned about the new CSS Overview tool dev tool from @ohhelloana.blog at #CSSDay and already fixed a stray font, duplicate colors, and merged a whole bunch of media queries \o/

I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them

I love how in 1981 the manual for a piece of Commodore PET software was just like "well, here's a commented dump of the 6502 machine language code for our program, knock yourself out" 💖

Today I learned there's a fan-made remake / remaster of Ghostbusters coming to the C64 and it looks AMAZING. JonEgg on graphics duties here, knocking it into the nearest convenient parallel dimension.

@ntim.bsky.social It was nice to meet you! Here's what I documented what happened 5 seconds after pressing the photo button, but can't tag the other two fine folks as I forgot their names. Good times!

I would like to take a moment to point out that, at #CSSDay, while captioning two days of highly specific talks with absurd information density levels (including Q&A and MC banter) at an ungodly early time, captioner @asignia.bsky.social found time to casually check social media and like posts!

Thank you to @bitsandletters.com, who sponsor this year's #CSSDay not for themselves, but to make additional student tickets available to the event! Here are all student attendees on our conf stage. (Plus some special guests / photo bombers, can you spot them?) /ht @demar.ee

Tim presented this work today at #cssday!! Follow him at @ntim.bsky.social

I loved every bit of this talk!! Get it?

But now that we've made the 'full adder' logic gate set, we can do pretty much everything. So can we make a CPU in CSS? Yes!!! #CSSDay Bravo!

Getting a shoutout from @ishadeed.com for our min-max calculator at #cssday? Made. Our. Day. 🥰 min-max-calculator.9elements.com?16,24,320,1200

@cssday.nl Question for Ahmad, what do you like to drink while creating all these awesome layouts?

Hey #CCSDay! Last day to win a FREE 4⅓ year enterprise subscription for Wakamai Fondue by guessing the Scratch 'n Sniff™ scent of our flyers! Submissions so far (all wrong): 1. Cheese, the raunchy kind 2. Your mom 3. <script>alert("YO!");</script> 4. 5. deeppink Good luck!! ✌️

Having a lovely time at #CSSDay - thank you all for following me into the weeds of value resolution! My slides & demos are online: slides.oddbird.net/mixins/cssday/

When on the toilette at @cssday.nl … (… asvertisement by @pixelambacht.bsky.social)

If you have a use case, please please please let us know about it on the csswg-drafts GitHub repo either on the relevant issue or make a new one! #CSSDay

“If you thought CSS was programing, it’s still programming, with even more features. If you didn’t think CSS was programming, it’s still not programming, but with more features” - @miriam.codes #CSSDay