the darnedest thing

changes continue.

lots of minor tweaks have been made to the content and presentation of the colophon.

the browser landscape has been somewhat active of late, with the demise of dwb (the author embarking on a new browser) and the entry of qutebrowser—a PyQt Webkit browser not using the traditional WebKitGtk+ library—and lispkit.

dates.

dotfiles are the big addition to this site.

funny what a toy can bring.

a flock of cedar waxwings.

since getting the Poker 2 mechanical keyboard, it has been weeks of exploration—reviewing the merits of various keyboard layouts, and examining and unlearning the left hand impositions learned from classical touch typing.

not the usual site specific announcement but I guess this must be the final keyboard layout which future content will be composed on.

well, it didn’t take long to return to a more classical hand positioning for touch typing (versus the flattened fingering I was experimenting with).

colours..

a subtle but significant change to this web site.

over the months, many under the hood changes have been made to the development server.

it’s a slow and methodical process.

lots of changes under the hood.

changes fast and furious.

like the normalization of keyboard layouts across the various matrix and split keyboards used.. qcocktwo’s Major Mono Display font eventually made its way to the Tiny Tiny RSS banner theme.. and from there to this site, transforming the traditional large…

fonts.

the last entry was about fonts.

my descent into all things fonts continues..

with the focus on font type legibility satisfied (on my desktops, ereaders and web site), it was time to address the resultant aesthetic of this site.

it was inevitable.. from the development of.. my original monospaced coding font based on the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font for the visually impaired to the ereader variant of that font further enhanced for dyslexia that these cumulative enhancements to adva…

font creep. completion.

it’s rare to have an entry here.

still more font changes.

A font change.

since Covid the diminutive Georgi keyboard had been my daily driver.

after time with the Chocofi Beakl Wi and the Chocofi Beakl Wi staggered layouts, the winner is.. beakl wi hybrid Save for the staggered pinkie finger chord—from the top+middle row to the middle+bottom row (with tuned glyph placements)—the chords for base…

hot on the heals of Chocofi Wi layout is the contemplated staggered pinkie version of the layout.

this layout uses the Georgi keyboard and a (firmware) chording engine..

while a descendent of the singspiel font, the gotham font is a return to a more traditional visual presentation with fewer flares whilst continuing this site’s focus on the improved dyslexic legibility and readability. straight m With yet another simple u…

with the advent of the singspiel font and almost a dedicated year of reading on the Supernote Manta, the koreader settings originally published have long been due for an update to reflect the evolved Manta eink specific settings.

the ottawa font follows on the heels of the gotham font.

the singspiel font marks a visual departure from the font series released on this site with the re-introduction of the familiar lower case cross t.

this TD;LR write-up covers KOReader on the new SuperNote A5X2 or Manta.

early on in this dyslexic font journey, a universal grotesk font variant was created with its unique descending lower case f, aptly named grotesk whilst applying the signature non-mirrored glyph set common to the fonts created on this site.

just as the luft font had established itself as my favourite ereading font, version 33.x of the Iosevka font introduced an angled “top-cut” single storey lower case a in three glyph variants—serifless, serifed and tailed, leading into its introduction with

(die) luft or air, breeze.

completes the evolution of the monospaced dyslexic fonts and their unique set of asymmetric glyphs and double cell width characters—adding a tweaked cap height to the Unolexic font.

“flat” fonts and the asymmetric lower case t have become my main focus of late—the increased air between lines taking precedence over earlier typefaces using extended/descending glyphs.

each thread – the submenu titles below the the darnedest thing— has an about link which describes the thread, its purpose and intent.

you are encouraged to send your comments regarding the darnedest thing.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my tr…

the search field can be found at the top of every page to the right of the site name by the faint colored magnifying glass icon and can filter for any article containing the search criteria entered.

minimalist browsers seem to go hand-in-hand with tiling window managers.

was originally released by arc90 as a Java bookmarklet which reformatted web pages for reading, devoid of the increasingly distracting artefacts adorning web pages.

finally!

i remember your footsteps in front behind always beside me your appreciative heart lighting upon everywhere It was a great honour knowing you, my Raven sister.

I breathe in Light through the center of my heart, Opening the heart chakra into a beautiful ball of Light, Allowing myself to expand.