April 2019
Month archive / 58 posts
Links: April 2019
rumz.org v3
If Rumsey Taylor is not on your radar, this is an excellent opportunity to rectify that error.
Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, "What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?" Here’s what they told us.
Most of these are more aspirations than likely outcomes, and one is included in a rather transparent attempt at ideological diversity (see if you can guess which one!), but an interesting collection… See more →
Zenith
Big Bite
Itekoma Hits
High Life
I sadly had to remove the texture on iOS due to a background-blend-mode bug. Please let me know if you spot issues in other browsers. twitter.com/robweychert/st…
Made improvements to Tinnitus Tracker’s dynamic color schemes (blog post coming soon) and added much-needed texture. tinnitus.robweychert.com
Die Another Day
So Dark the Night
The World Is Not Enough
Three day weekend. Brand-new records from @Enforcermetal and @otobokebeaver. 👍🏻
Any CSS aficionados know why CSS filters applied to <body> don’t apply to its background?
A lot of people were happy when Twitter went to 280 and they started doing all 280 tweets all the time but I didn’t like it and I kept doing 140 even though I now had the option to do 280 but now I’m thinking maybe I’ll try 280 and see if maybe I like it because I figure (1/367)
A reminder to celebrate the blessing that is Grimace. His name, his form, his enigmatic essence. He is perfection. 💜
All the time I’ve spent walking city streets, not once has a car pulled up with goons insisting on taking me to see a crime boss about a debt
Mutant Scum
Waiting for a train, thinking about how much it sucks that some of my friends are dead.
The Coathangers
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
A generational juggernaut of a performer at the height of her powers creating a spectacle of empowerment and representation with a cast of hundreds. It also happens to be an enormously entertaining show, and an effective encouragement to channel your very best self toward putting something good into the world.
Tomorrow Never Dies
I was right to be optimistic! twitter.com/trysmudford/st…
Just noticed I’m at 4,999 followers. Now taking your most optimistic guesses for who the 5,000th will be.
This CSS trick for fading siblings on hover is rad: trysmudford.com/blog/fade-out-…
I wish the example used the photo from Back to the Future. 🙃
Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers
My Name Is Julia Ross
GoldenEye
Nothing instantly sours my mood quite like the C train inexplicably going express on my commute home, flying past my stop and two more.
Hi, I’m trying to install nvm and it’s not going well and I don’t like what’s become of my profession
FYI my preferred pronunciation of GitHub is gi'tho͞ob
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These features currently only have IE/Edge support, which effectively vanishes when Edge moves to Blink. Hope more support comes soon. 🤞🏻 twitter.com/robweychert/st…
“[CSS] has introduced the same kind of hyphenation controls provided in layout software (eg. InDesign)” 😍 clagnut.com/blog/2395
Licence to Kill
Making Music, Update 1
I expected learning musical notation to be like learning another language, and it is. But unlike learning a phonetic language that uses a familiar alphabet, music’s symbology constitutes its own unique alphabet. And while its symbols can be interpreted vocally, they’re just as likely to be interpreted with an instrument (in my case, a guitar). Rather than an English speaker learning Spanish, the process is more like an English speaker learning Arabic and translating it… See more →
The Living Daylights
A View to a Kill
I thought I’d eventually have to travel to see them, but Uranium Club is coming to me, and friends, I AM EXCITED. tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/06/27/ura…
Colleen Green
There were definitely more men in their 50s at this show than I expected to see!
I went partly because I enjoy Colleen’s records and partly as something of a recon mission: As I’m focusing more on making music again, singing and playing power chords live over canned backing tracks is an approachable performance goal, and I wanted to see how well a pro could make it work. Colleen’s biggest strength is her songwriting, and… See more →
“If you have any idea at all, start a draft.” Good blogging advice from @davatron5000. daverupert.com/2019/04/some-u…
Never Say Never Again
If @iamrumz is not on your radar, this is an excellent opportunity to rectify that error. twitter.com/iamrumz/status…
The Big Heat
Octopussy
For Your Eyes Only
Back on the horse. My thanks to Ronnie James Dio for powering me through the last half mile.
Frat House
Deliverance
Moonraker
Hi, I’m gonna go ahead and call bullshit on StubHub’s five-star rating in the App Store.
The Spy Who Loved Me
How is the data-hungry advertising that pervades the internet still so dumb? “I see you bought a thing! Would you like to… buy it again?”
The Man with the Golden Gun
Good evening. To whom it may concern, this evening’s apartment cleaning will be soundtracked exclusively by DLR-era Van Halen.
alexa how can i tell if theres a bustle in my hedgerow
Broke my glasses just before having headshots taken. Did the shoot without glasses, drew them on later with SVG, and randomized the colors.
Let’s hear about a happy accident you’ve had.
The Sadies
Live and Let Die
When Bond goes blaxploitation, the man to hire for the theme song is clearly… Paul McCartney?