SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

29Apr2024

Hidden Gems of Tailwind CSS | Rails Designer

Unlock the full poten­tial of Tail­wind CSS for your Rails-based SaaS apps with our guide on hid­den fea­tures. From chang­ing check­box col­ors to lever­ag­ing peer mod­i­fiers and cus­tom vari­ants, enhance your web UIs effort­less­ly.

25Apr2024

Why we suck at estimating software projects

You can plan, strate­gize, chunk, fold, spin­dle, and muti­late a project for count­less per­son-hours, and you still won’t know the dif­fi­cul­ties that lay ahead in actu­al­ly writ­ing the code.

14Apr2024

Shiki

A beau­ti­ful and pow­er­ful syn­tax high­lighter

11Apr2024

Scribo by Underware

The goal in cre­at­ing Scri­bo was not only to cap­ture the action of writ­ing with­in a dig­i­tal font file, but also to cre­ate the most intel­li­gent hand­writ­ing font we could imag­ine.

11Apr2024

Primarium

Pri­mar­i­um is a pio­neer­ing edu­ca­tion­al project by Type­To­geth­er which stud­ied the meth­ods of Latin script-based hand­writ­ing instruc­tion for pri­ma­ry school chil­dren, span­ning five con­ti­nents and about one-quar­ter of the world.

10Apr2024

Working with SVGs in P5JS

P5JS does­n’t offer native SVG sup­port, there is how­ev­er a way to run P5 in an SVG’ mode using zenozeng’s SVG run­time. Run­ning P5 in this SVG mode also requires a lot of inter­ac­tion with the DOM, which we’ll dis­cuss in this post.