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json.blog sees an issue

I keep getting older, and the text size on Daring Fireball keeps staying the same.

I feel this soo much. It's part of the reason that I make the default font as big as it is. I understand that a user might have a default style sheet or setting. I feel that designing for a larger initial font, makes this particular theme more flexible.

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Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages | James' Coffee Blog

Earlier this week, with a spark for building but no particular idea in mind, I started to think about the Linux manual page. Could I serve my blog posts as Linux manual pages? Herein lay an adventure.

WHOA! This completely blew my mind!

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Tailwind vs Semantic CSS

This study compares two websites with identical design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS

I found this via Robb Knight's mastodon/website and laughed to myself when I read No Comment.

I've been using tools that help developer things faster for years. It feels like all the time we save accrues interest and we have to payback in other costs.

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How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS

As you can imagine, we spend a lot of our time working on really, really old books. So why not create a website out of really, really old technology?

A pretty interesting read. It's part of what got me interested in static website generation. Also, came across the word "paean" which I haven't seen in so long that I thought it was a typo.

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