I have not written anything on this blog for about four weeks. There are various reasons, including procrastination.
Part of the procrastination process caused me to join a play-by-post Dungeons & Dragons 4E game on GitP forum. Anyway, since the time is already wasted, why not waste it well? So let me document the stories of the games I am playing.
Now that I have an SVG image, that is, the site logo, it might be time to explore more ways to mess with SVG images.
So, what if I want to create a “spinner” based on the site logo?
In the following few days, I will (hopefully) explore how to make interactive and animated SVG parts. There are a few goals behind this:
Sadly, Inkscape does not seem to be a good tool for automated processing. Anyway, let me document the manual process first, and worry about automation later.
Read more“Creating optimized SVG with Inkscape”
Just realized that Kahuna has already included print style in their CSS, so that printed posts will be mostly black-on-white. It saves ink and promotes clarity.
My CSS hacks had interfered with this and caused the printed pages to have a weird header. It has now been fixed.
Anyone interested in typography will probably ask me this question:
Why is there no ligature for “fi” in the site title, de finibus?
And for some time I thought the answer was: “I would like to, but Adagio Serif does not come with one.”
Which is completely wrong. Adagio Serif has a ligature for “fi”, as its style really asks for one.
It leads me to investigate why I don’t see ligatures in my website.
The first iteration of the site logo, or the favicon, has a few problems.
I do not want to completely abandon the idea yet. So let me start a second iteration of the logo.
This is the first reorganization of posts on my blog.
In the beginning, I said that I did not care about content organization, I just wanted to write something, and there are no intended readers at all. However, as of now I already have 17 posts, this post not included. I find it starting to be hard even for myself to find the article I want.
So even without any intended readers, there is a need for keeping my blog well organized and tidy.
There are three areas covered by this reorganization: categories/tags, excerpts and tagline.
Since I have included a code snippet of more than twenty lines in my last article, it seems that it is now time to get some proper syntax highlighting.
After a short survey, and by excluding the plugins that are no longer maintained and the plugins that obviously does not satisfy my use case, I have the following real options:.
Since I found myself desperately lacking modern front end skills, I decide to spend some time in creating an example Angular app.
This article covers the following questions:
This time I do not plan to change much of my color scheme. Instead, it is an attempt to fine-tune details and deepen my understandings.
Read more“The color scheme, part II”
