Vale

@vale

Front-end developer, designer, writer, and avid user of the superpowered information superhighway. ✧ ✧

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Vale@vale· Jul 7

I'm in deep now.

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Vale@vale· Jul 7

Chromium on NixOS:

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Vale@vale· Jul 4

You can say 'the industry is fucked and we're all doomed' and people don't even dispute it. They just look at you like:

Brendan Fraser in The Whale with a deeply sad expression.

Vale@vale· Jun 30

Oh oh.

Vale.Rocks' search page returning results for 'instead of'.

Vale@vale· Jun 20

Here are the settings on web and desktop, for anyone wondering:

Interface with two main toggles. One enables desktop notifications, the other enables push notifications.

Below are a list of sounds which can be individually toggled.

Vale@vale· Jun 17

Google's AI Overview just confidently informed me that the PDA operating system EPOC (which isn't an acronym and is instead a reference to the term 'epoch') actually stands for 'Electronic Piece of Cheese'.

Google AI Overview reading: 'The EPOC Web Browser refers to the internet browsers developed for Psion's EPOC (Electronic Piece Of Cheese) operating system, which eventually became the foundation for Symbian OS. Though primitive by modern standards, these lightweight browsers were revolutionary for bringing internet access to early Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).'

Vale@vale· Jun 9

Eh, close enough. Welcome back Sony Ericsson. #WWDC

Vale@vale· Jun 9

Some gorgeous Sega Saturn Net Link pictures I took that didn't make the cut for my upcoming article but which may nonetheless tickle some fancies. #Sega #SegaSaturn

Net Link version 3 home. The interface is busy and provides a top-down view of a city. Each district is labelled with a topic. Around the peripheries are a range of buttons and branding.

A beige page explaining the internet. It reads:

'What is the Internet?
The Internet is, essentially, a giant network connecting tens of thousands of computers around the world. Each computer on the Internet uses a special standard language to send information so that any other computer on the Internet can understand the message.

What is the World Wide Web?
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a subset of the Internet. The "Web" consists of thousands of web servers (computers that send information) that use a special language (hypertext transport protocol or https) to send graphics, text and sounds that can be displayed and listened to on-screen by any computer connected to the Internet using a special...'

Vale@vale· Jun 9

What is this 'URL' you speak of? (From the Nintendo DS Browser manual. archive.org/details/manu...)

A booklet page with header 'The URL Input Screen'.

Content reads: 'By entering the URL (address) of the desired page on the UAL Input Screen, you can jump to that page.. What is a URL? A URL is the address of a Web page on the Internet. The term "address" is sometimes used instead.'

Different characters are then displayed and explained alongside a fancy picture of the globe with bits whizzing about it.

Vale@vale· Jun 8

I'm just logging on with CD-Online Disc 97-10 for the CD-i to do some work for an article. Gotta love it.

A weathered scroll like interface with buttons for 'gamezone', 'goldclub', 'services', 'e-mail', 'www', and 'news', among other interface buttons.

Vale@vale· Jun 5

MEAT FONT

Vale@vale· Jun 4

I dug out my old graphic design portfolio. I love it for being an almost physical manifestation of my website, albeit a slightly older version. The colours and type might have changed since I put this portfolio together, but the general style remains intact.

Front of a spiral-bound portfolio. It has a magenta to black gradient with the text 'Graphic Design Portfolio. Declan Chidlow'.

Front spread of the portfolio. On the left page is a stylised picture of me with a shocked expression. To the right reads 'Ahoy! I'm Declan Chidlow' with a brief blurb.

A page showing my meat font, a bony typeface with muscle attached. The words 'Meat Font' are written, and on a page falling out of the crop are a collection of all the glyphs.

Vale@vale· Jun 1

Glad to see things are going well for @kevinpowell.co over on YouTube.

Screenshot of a YouTube Short thumbnail with Kevin's smiling face above the text 'Everybody is dead!'

Vale@vale· May 29

Just discovered this is a thing you can do if you're so inclined. youtube.com/tv works on non-television devices (as long as you spoof your user agent).

YouTube's TV interface displaying in Chromium on a Linux desktop.

Vale@vale· May 28

You fool! You neglected to specify currency! Better get the clippers ready.

Kickstarter screenshot. 'AU$ 125,216 pledged of AU$ 42,244 goal. 752 backers. 7 hours to go'

Vale@vale· May 25

I like to think I'm semi-decent at unicycling, having unicycled on television and at events a few times. Am I good at animating and creating interactive visualisations of unicycle behaviour, though? That's the more pressing and worrying question...

Me on my mountain unicycle about to gun it up a dirt ramp.

Vale@vale· May 25

After a long break from working on it, I'm back to chipping away at my interactive guide to unicycling.

A figure on a unicycle, with an arrow indicating their centre of mass. A slider from slow to fast is present at the bottom.

Vale@vale· May 23

There is a point during the process of my annual haircut down to bald where I survey the sink with a certain trepidation.

Vale@vale· May 22

Oh, okay. Thanks Google. I was wondering where all the traffic went.

Google Search Console notice reading 'A query recently got fewer impressions than usual. Check this query's performance to investigate further. "in game background shows the console on which it is being played". Down 72%.'

Vale@vale· May 16

They say you mustn’t Log Off. #AnalogHorror

CRT monitor displaying the text 'It's not safe to turn off your computer.' At the bottom in smaller text it says 'run'. The monitor bezel is slightly stained by crimson.

Vale@vale· May 14

I love dark mode, but it mustn’t be the only option. For a lot of people, white text upon a dark background is illegible. Common eye conditions like astigmatism, myopia, and presbyopia can make content look foggy, become hard to focus on, and cause eye strain. #a11y #Accessibility

Pure white text on a pure black background, blurred in a manner representative of what some people with astigmatism might see. It is difficult to read and focus on due to halation, with the bright text appearing to bleed into the dark background.

Vale@vale· May 12

I've successfully broken Hacker News. This submission has -4 points, somehow. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4810...

Hacker News interface with a post that has -4 points. One comment reads, '-4 points on this submission? What? How did that happen? I've never seen it go negative.'

Vale@vale· May 7

I released some 88x31 web buttons/badges for various Git forges which are hopefully useful for folks leaving GitHub. (I also released badges for @stoat.chat and @listenbrainz.org)

A collection of six 88x31 web badges: Codeberg, Tangled, Forgejo, GitLab, Stoat, and ListenBrainz.

Vale@vale· May 4

Publishing pixel art on the web? Don't let it get blurred and smushed. Apply the `image-rendering: crisp-edges` CSS property. Alternatively, export your pixel art at a higher resolution, so each visual pixel is made of many pixels, minimising impact from scaling and compression. #PixelArt #CSS

A collection of 88x31 buttons. One set is blurry and rendered with `image-rendering: smooth`. The other is sharp, and each individual pixel can be seen. It is rendered with `image-rendering: crisp-edges`.

Vale@vale· May 1

I'm so tired. #a11y #Accessibility

Four-panel Star Wars-based meme. Anakin says, 'AI is going to overhaul digital accessibility.' Padmé smiles and asks, 'For the better, right?' In the third panel, Anakin stares back silently with a grim expression. In the final panel, Padmé looks concerned and repeats, 'For the better, right?'

Vale@vale· Apr 27

They went and did it as well!

Italy, which looks vaguely like a boot/leg, displayed on Apple Maps.

Vale@vale· Apr 20

Vercel got pwned, so here is another prompt to stop using them. Entirely unrelated, but here is a picture of Vercel's CEO with Netanyahu, the man responsible for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch smiling in a selfie with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Vale@vale· Apr 16

Watching on in abject horror as a post of mine climbs the rankings on Hacker News...

Vale@vale· Apr 13

‘You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted. He is a sociopath. He would do anything.’ — Aaron Swartz, who was federally charged while trying to make information free, talking about Sam Altman, whose company OpenAI harvests information en masse.

2005 group photo of Y Combinator's first batch. Sam Altman stands beside Aaron Swartz to the centre-right of the photo. Many other people are also present in the photo.

Vale@vale· Apr 5

It is an open secret in Australia that K-Mart sells a coffee grinder perfect for grinding bud, and the reviews from stoners on the K-Mart website are appropriately fantastic. (In store, this grinder is one of the few products with an anti-theft tag strapped to it.)