Ryan DeBeasi @ryan@mastodon.xyz

Brilliant project that tidies up public domain ebooks.

Gutenberg and Internet Archive are wonderful resources, but the texts are poorly formatted for actual use, especially on ereaders.

This is a volunteer driven initiative to bring these texts up to date with modern standards and make them look as good as possible on the page.

https://standardebooks.org/

Continuing to think about https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-redesign/ and wondering if "Atomic CSS" really is the most performant way to handle CSS. https://acss.io/

Pros:

- It does seem that CSS would grow logarithmically with the number of components
- You can code-split it and delete unused rules
- Style calc is fast since everything is just classes (assuming no descendant selectors)

Cons:

- HTML is bloated and hard to debug
- Seems hard to learn the terse syntax
- May be fragile, not very DRY?

#CSS #Colors
"LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how?" @LeaVerou@twitter.com (Lea Verou) explains the sRGB color space, what LCH is and why this is going to be a game changer for the web. Looking forward to this being more implemented http://lea.verou.me/2020/04/lch-colors-in-css-what-why-and-how/

okay so you might have heard that a lot of games on itch.io are generously being put on sale or going completely free to download/claim to help keep people busy during self-isolation. to make things a bit easier for poor folks like me who cant really afford to buy video games, i've made an (almost) complete list of the games that are completely free https://itch.io/c/759545/self-isolation-on-a-budget

Korg and Moog made their software synths free: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/16/korg-and-moog-have-made-their.html

complete reverse-engineered source code of ZZT (an important DOS-era game creation tool): https://github.com/asiekierka/reconstruction-of-zzt

"The growth of command line options, 1979-Present":

https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/

Over the past few years I've noticed myself stopping to do custom tweaks on my own system, and instead working to fix the underlying issue for everyone.

I finally wrote my thoughts about this down in a more coherent form https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2020/01/17/doing-things-that-scale

#DesignSystems
"There Is No Design System" Move away from thinking of design systems as an actual thing and more as a way of working better, more efficiently, and more creatively so that we can build great experiences for our users. https://24ways.org/2019/there-is-no-design-system/

#UX
This is amazing: a comics that explains a user centric process by using the redesign of the Batman's outfit as an example.
No more excuses to say "yeah but I don't understand what you people do" now!

http://batux.design/

For those interested, these are the CSS media queries I mentioned:

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme

Because of these, a website can automatically infer whether a user prefers fewer animations (e.g. due to vestibular disorders) or whether they prefer dark mode, based on an OS-wide setting. The "reduced motion" one is especially impressive, as it works across a wide variety of OSes – Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, even Ubuntu! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion#User_Preferences