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Ice clings to the window of my car after an ice storm.
Source: John Williams

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Using modern font stacks

Goodbye Google Fonts, hello (again) system fonts

Maybe sometimes you should use pixels

The conventional wisdom is that you should not use pixel units, but maybe sometimes you should?

Thudfactor has gone super retro

An explanation and apology of sorts for things looking like 1992 around here.

 A page set with moveable lead type

Real punctuation for programmers

How to give your UI a more polished look just by using the correct punctuation.

 A mostly empty, modern auditorium with musical instruments set up on the stage. The picture has been taken from the balcony. Small box seats are visible to either side. A screen on stage promotes details of the NPR show Mountain Stage

The underappreciated reason Google is useless

Search Engines have been overwhelmed by SEO spam, but is the struggling open web part of the problem?

 A picture of a code sample showing CSS being assigned to a string, but without any visible syntax coloring.

Syntax coloring in template literals

Template literals are great for assembling bits of CSS and HTML in Javascript, but what about the syntax coloring?

 Oatmeal with blueberries and slivered almonds in a blue bowl

Instant Pot steel-cut oatmeal

The easiest way I know to make oatmeal that doesn’t come in an envelope.

 A closeup of Medusa’s sneering face from the 1981 movie “Clash of the Titans”

Prefers reduced motion

Supporting your site visitors who have motion sensitivities.