Nebula Sans is the new brand typeface for Nebula, the premium streaming service from independent creators. Based on Source Sans and designed to be a drop-in alternative to Whitney SSm, Nebula Sans is available for anyone to use under the SIL Open Font License.
I’ve always liked Whitney - I mocked up an early version of this site using it - but with a $2,400 license fee, it’s just a tad outside my budget for a small personal blog.
Modern Macs autoboot when lid is opened, this can be a problem for a lot of people (oilrig workers, for example, have to demonstrate their computers are not powered on before flying to the rig). Documenting Apple’s guidance for posterity.
sudo nvram BootPreference=%00sudo nvram BootPreference=%01sudo nvram BootPreference=%02sudo nvram -d BootPreference in TerminalIf after all those years of using your Mac you are still fighting with Finder to get it to behave as you wish, look no further, FinderFix will get it to open every new window in the exact same position and size you want it to.
The inability for Finder to remember what size I want my windows to open at has long been an annoyance. This seems to fix that pretty well.
A long time ago I came to an understanding with JavaScript; I didn’t like it and it didn’t like me.
When I adopted Eleventy for the previous version of this site around a year ago, I hadn’t appreciated how much JavaScript I’d have to write. I initially thought I’d get away with it, but as I tried to add new sections to the site along with extra bits of functionality, I quickly realised how wrong I was.
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I’ve added a very quick-and-dirty copy to clipboard function to the site. I’ll find a better/neater way to do that soon, I have a few plans for a larger update to the site. New look’n’feel coming soon.
Clearing favicon caching on Safari is not simple. The commonly accepted steps are below, however in practice this doesn’t appear to work (for me, at least). I’ll update as I investigate.
~/Library/Safari/Favicon Cache entirelyI’ve spent a little time over the last few weeks gradually reclaiming old blog content from various sources. Some has been pulled from the Wayback Machine, some from old Pinboard archives, some from site backups. Going back over two decades, almost none of it has any value, it’s certainly well beyond being useful, so it’s perhaps entertaining at best.
It’s facinating how much near 25 year old linked content is still available.
Hugo have just released v0.141.0 which now includes an alignx option on images.Text. Slightly niche perhaps, but it’s exactly what I wanted to generate my OpenGraph images and center the text (more on that another time).
Great little tool for making pretty screenshots. Drag and drop in any screenshot and you can play with borders/background colours/etc.
HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at different websites. The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now, despite how many more people use the internet, I usually end up at the same three or four websites, and I end up a lot more bored.
Rediculously expensive, but you can’t deny the engineering is impressive.
Great little privacy-focused Google Analytics alternative with a very sensible pricing model.
QGDPR-compliant with no cookies or user-identifiable data storage. Securely hosted in Europe for your peace of mind.
I’ve installed it on this site (not that there’s much traffic to analyse!).
Replaced the word list with Friendly Words. I was getting the odd slightly dubious generated password and as much as I tried to sanitise the list, there were just too many words to check. So far, this seems to be producing much better results.
I stumbled on this when I was looking for ‘safe’ word lists for using on Pass3words.