Today’s thankless task: figuring out what about my bog-standard, non-JS, bag-of-HTML-pages of a personal website compels iOS Safari to jump to the top of the article every time I hit the back button, instead of maintaining the scroll position, when visiting any external link.
@siblingpastry@aardrian I merely mentioned document.activeElement = main as what tipped me to finding the root cause. It's the scrolling to top that’s problematic.
In light of new developments in CSS, I’ve decided to freshen up my specification of QSX, the query language based on CSS selectors for extracting things from DOM. It now has a dedicated spot on my website:
Gave the ol’ HTML Standard a read to figure out how responsive images work, wrote down some details. Nothing revolutionary after a decade of spilled ink on the topic, but maybe a mental model that sticks?
In September this year the Cluj County Library had an incredible push to Europeana (via the new-to-me culturalia.ro platform), so I am thrilled to introduce the first (and so far only) publicly-available PDF of a Romanian type specimen:
I’m trying to figure out a system for my reference material, so I’m looking for a macOS app for structured data — like spreadsheets, but with more field types and better editing experience, à la Notion / Airtable.
Any recommendations?
Bonus points for straightforward storage (text-based file format, or SQLite).
@voxpelli@bcomnes Yeah, I was very excited to discover npm workspaces (late bloomer 🥲), but the fact that npm runs the scripts in sequence is quite unfortunate for long-running tasks…
Early Communist-era type specimen from the (freshly nationalized) Universul state-owned enterprise. Notably, type samples are combined with propaganda imagery and short snippets explaining type terminology and processes. #newacq
@petrescatraian Yes, they ran the newspaper, a publishing house, and associated printing facilities [1]. Later became Întreprinderea Poligrafică nr. 2 (and the paper became Informația Bucureștiului), then Întreprinderea Poligrafică „Informația”.