Mandaris

Weekly Review - 20250726

✨ Wins: What good or great things happened this week?
- I got good news from a friend that I haven’t heard from in a while
- Finished most of my work tasks
📌 Progress Check: How did things go with your goals from Monday?
1. I did 10 out of the 50 pushups
2. I stressed out about having “the right” journal
3. I’m going to set up the same goals for next week
🤔 Challenges: What obstacles did you encounter, and what can you learn from them?
- I need to post the goals somewhere so that I don’t forget and this.
🔄 Adjustments: Anything you’ll do differently next week? Set reminders on my phone in the hopes of keeping myself accountable.

Is Justin Timberland on the same drugs as Will Smith?

Crucial Track for July 23, 2025

"All Night Long" by Mary Jane Girls

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What song makes you want to stay up all night?

I'm actually not a fan of staying up late. Maybe because I'm an early riser or just getting old(er).

This song is a classic song written by Rick James. The bass riff is amazing and rocks you into slow groove.

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I think lambdas are a horrible design pattern.

If I was the one who gave the ok for Liquid Glass, I would retire too.

I’m breaking things on the site. Have to wait until after work to fix them.

Changed the default rss template. Hopefully those who read it don’t find it too disruptive.

Crucial Track for July 22, 2025

"Arco Arena (Instrumental)" by CAKE

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What's a song you associate with your hometown?

Cake is a band from where I'm from -- don't be creepy -- and this song is about a building that no longer exists. But, it really gets me hyped and ready to do something. I thought about having it as my morning alarm, but I don't want to wind up hating it.

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Creating Perfect Font Fallbacks in CSS | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

I've been thinking about this article by Jim Mitchell on using Phosphor Icons for Micro.blog navigation but haven't finished implementing it with my preferred icon font, tabler.

I was researching what would happen if someone was to read the site and the font is not available – for example, RSS – when I came across a post talking about descent-override.

While font metrics are baked into a typeface’s definition, there are various CSS properties that allow stylesheet authors to override those metrics. Among them, the three most important ones that we’re interested in are size-adjust, ascent-override, and descent-override.

Creating Perfect Font Fallbacks in CSS | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

I’ve currently have a small selection of fonts being referenced, to verify for myself that the font isn’t downloaded when not used. I want to make this a two step rollout as I redo my page navigation and change the spacing in the articles.

Be sure to check out Jim’s blog for lots of great content!