Site seeing
September 17, 2018
Over the past few years I've got into the habit of tweeting links to things I've found interesting or noteworthy, but rather than continuing to throw them out there randomly I thought I'd group them up a bit, so I could find them again myself if for no other reason.
This is inspired in part by the blog rolls of the mid 2000s, in part by Brett Terpstra's web excursions, and in part by playing with Mastodon.
As you may have noticed from the contact links on this site I'm toying with moving from Twitter to Mastodon. More on that in another post no doubt, but this is all about being slightly more thoughtful about what I do online.
I can't tell whether the intentional misspelling of sightseeing is funny or not, but I think it works.
- Brett Terpstra's web excursions – because imitation, flattery, etc
- Building a layout library – Swift talk is Chris Eidhof and Florian Kugler, here building a responsive layout library
- Capturing self –
guard let self = self else { return }does look weird - Fixing PT Serif – Converting fonts to and from XML to slightly move a quotation mark is just the sort of thing I'd do
- The rise and demise of RSS – "…two decades later, RSS appears to be a dying technology, now used chiefly by podcasters and programmers with tech blogs. Moreover, among that latter group, RSS is perhaps used as much for its political symbolism as its actual utility."