Francesco Schwarz

Test to see if Mastodon integration works with brid.gy and my website.

Replying to a toot from @gh057:

Nice! 👍

I’m vaccinated. First shot. Biontech.

I’m having trouble keeping up with my feed reader count of unread articles. Somehow again and again I delay opening up the damn thing and just start reading.

Via Daring Fireball: I’m trying out Hello Weather on my iPhone now. I especially like their privacy policy:

We don’t want to know anything about you unless you contact us yourself.

Replying to a post on adactio.com:

I think something’s wrong with your RSS feed, too. 🙊

Replying to a tweet from @Mokkapps:

Even better! 👍

One of the reasons I struggle with writing notes and articles for my blog on a regular basis is the fact that I don’t know who I’m writing for. (That, and an unhealthy mix of impostor syndrome.)

Who reads my content? For which audience do or should I write? Who even cares about the things I think about? Do my ramblings make any iota of meaningful difference in the world?

This thinking isn’t helpful. It’s the opposite. I can feel how it blocks my mind.

That’s why I now try to think of it as I think of good and relevant comments in code: I try to picture myself a few months into the future and document things for my future self. I make implicit knowledge explicit, for myself, in order to be able to remember. I materialize emotions and thoughts I have every day through words I put up on my blog.

The audience is me. Anyone else interested is welcome to join me in reading.

For years now my go-to pattern for CSS hyphenation was always something like this:

p {
  /* activate hyphenation */
  hyphens: auto;
  /* add some sensible settings (http://clagnut.com/blog/2395/) */
  hyphenate-limit-chars: 6 3 3;
  hyphenate-limit-last: always;
  hyphenate-limit-lines: 2;
  hyphenate-limit-zone: 8%;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {
  p {
    /* deactivate hyphenation for larger viewports */
    hyphens: none;
  }
}

Today at work we encountered a strange bug in combination with the none keyword. A floated element caused the text paragraphs besides it to create weird and random text breaks. Toggling the none keyword on those text paragraphs caused the bug to disappear.

Upon further inspection I checked out the docs for the hyphens property. For the none value the following is stated:

Words are not broken at line breaks, even if characters inside the words suggest line break points. Lines will only wrap at whitespace.

This seems rather aggressive. What I actually want is what the manual keyword offers (which is also the default value of hyphens):

Words are broken for line-wrapping only where characters inside the word suggest line break opportunities. […]

Adding manual to the text paragraphs fixed the bug. Unfortunately I don’t know what exactly caused the bug, but I guess in certain layout combinations the aggressive nature of none can cause browsers to create weird text flows.

Again what learned, as we like to say in Germany!

I just came across a job offer for a “Frontend Developer”. In it is explicitly stated that you should not apply if you’ve never touched AWS or Kubernetes. I mean: what the actual f.