from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/taking-it-all-off/

netrunner mentioned!!!

I moved to a newer version of Lato that’s a variable font. This shouldn’t mean anything now except maybe a smaller bundle? (Nevermind, see edit.) But down the line it’ll mean some neat things.

Edit: Sorry I just checked right now and the variable fonts are a little over four times the size. (744kb for variable vs 116kb for regular. Yikes!) This is not the fault of the variable font for being, well, variable. This is all due to what glyphs it supports! The newer version of Lato supports, just, so many more characters than the original version of Lato. This is kind of a good thing, but it does mean I’ll need to do some subsetting of the font. Speaking of which, I need to write a whole article about that some day. A little introduction to font subsetting that can maybe be useful down the line. Sorry for the massive increase in bundle size, it will be fixed sooner instead of later.

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/the-belgian-agent/

netrunner mentioned!!!

Also, just to let you know, this post is going to be mostly pictures, with some minor commentary attached. Enjoy!

I arrived about 30 minutes early. I left early because I wasn’t certain if things would go wrong on the train. (Things went wrong with taking the train.) Since I had some time, I took photos around the park while waiting.

People slowly came in until we were about eight strong. We ate snacks (which I give a 4/5) and drank flavored sparkling water (which I give a 2/5) and chatted about memories of cohost. We even got to meet the bug himself! Eggbug was there! I brought him from my house!

I got to hold Eggbug in front of the overlook for the waterfall. It was very elegant and I think he really appreciated the view.

Next, all eight of us took a group photo in front of the overlook. Then, we went down quite the lengthy flight of stairs to the falls themselves. We took another group photo on a bridge in front of the waterfall.

After that, we walked down the trail from the fa…

i’ll have to fix that later at some point but first i’m gonna cook some food

I don’t know how hard it was but I felt smart doing it

Here’s the link to it: https://sudokupad.app/jeyw4ftg8q (also here’s the cracking the cryptic video where they solve it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeS7Io-EUc i hope you like it)

Hey! It’s time for another link roundup! But first, some housekeeping.

Cohost Minnesota Wake at Minnehaha Falls at 3pm

That’s today y’all! The link for the wake is here. Please come down! I’m gonna be there! This is just a quick refresher for everyone here to actually go!

Geoffrey Bunting on the Rolling Stone: The Digital Orphans of ‘Pokémon’

Honestly, Pokémon is super important to me. Anything that takes a close look at the games will make me feel warm and fuzzy. I will use my link shares as an excuse to shove Pokémon down your throat and I will not feel sorry about it.

Studio MillMint: Photovolumes

MillMint is a long running website/worldbuilding project I’ve been following for the past 7 years maybe that’s about 40% thinking too much about guns and military stuff and 60% talking about weird fictional versions of things I actually care about. And trains. It recently put out an update about this world’s fucked up computers. Please read about them.

Eleanor Konic: On what it means to not have time

Tim is right that if this were a big enough priority for me, I could get up at four in the morning every day and work in a quiet, locked office with no distractions. I might end up d…

i did it! i caught up on all my rss stuff. i fell behind a lot in september due to cohost shutting down and me having to focus a lot of my work on making my website. i figured out what rss client im gonna use (it’s lire), and i backread on everything added when i added the rss feeds. i’m all good now! things will definitely be good forever now.