Tilde Life, By Dave Rutledge

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September 17, 2019 ~♣

Debugging Live

This morning, I was annoyed to see how hard my site was to read on my phone. In embracing the restraints, I'm not looking for a fully responsive design, but it sure seemed like this basic layout should be able to just naturally adapt to be legible. And yet, on the phone the width was far too wide, making the type far too tiny.

So I set about figuring out why. Through that maddening, but still effective, method of just commenting out random things. First, all of the CSS. No help. Then, all of the blog posts but the most recent. Ah ha! And then, slowly, tediously, commenting out less and less of the page until I identified the three posts that were causing the problem.

Spoiler, it was the pre tag! I set a max-width on that, and everything'sâ€¦better, anyway. Legible. Which is definitely Good Enough.

Bonus points, I just did all the debugging live on the site, literally editing the file on the server, saving and reloading, against every best practice ever written. Live life dangerously! (But I probably should at least save a copy of this index.html file somewhere for when I totally screw it up.) Add A Comment

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September 16, 2019 ~♣

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Hello, Again, World.

While I enjoyed seeing the flood of list notifications from fellow relvokcor.xyz members of years ago, it also spiked my guilt for having abandoned this before. So I decided I should see if I still could get in, get hooked up, and remember how to edit this thing before sending out that "here's who I am" note.

I'm pleased to not only have figured that out, I think I've even got an improved editing set up (or at least simplified). Not that that will fix my "remember that you have a blog" challenges, but at least it's an option!

Anyway, if you're (back?) here, hi (again)!Add A Comment

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November 17, 2014 ~♣

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Blogging in a state of emergency

Missouri declared a state of emergency today, ahead of what increasingly seems like a very predictable grand jury announcement.

I could be wrong, but whatever happens, if anything happens, probably wonâ€™t personally change my day-to-day life much, partly because I work from home. But also because I work on the internet and while the internet is an amazing source of news and updates about events it seems to be fairly unaffected by emergencies. Assuming I keep electricity and Comcast keeps their network up, Twitter will continue on, Facebook will barely seem to notice, and relvokcor.xyz will still be here.

Iâ€™m not sure thatâ€™s great. Maybe more would get fixed in the world if real world chaos more directly affected things like browsing the web, shopping online, chatting with friends. Iâ€™m all for movements to fight for net neutrality and stop online censorship, and I do think those are very important causes, but it does seem depressing to think that itâ€™s far harder to get people to fight for equality and fair treatment of humans. I suppose itâ€™s connected, and the freedom to talk about whatever you want to and not be slowed down because youâ€™re not a major corporation leads to more freedom to fight other concerns.

Not that I really know how you can fight these real concerns online, since it seems like the biggest action taken is swapping out your avatar for a day, or possibly throwing an include onto a site you run.

On the other hand, an embarrassing press conference that might have mostly gone unnoticed in the past, with edited sound bites on TV and excerpts printed in mostly unread newspapers, while today weâ€™re all able to immediately hear and share sounds of leadership that seems to be unclear about who is actually in charge and unwilling to accept responsibility for what results from that. Maybe someday that will lead to change in who is leading, and that will lead to change in what happens in the real world. Maybe.Add A Comment

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November 16, 2014 ~♣

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Snow Media

It snowed more than an inch today, unexpectedly (for me). Itâ€™s funny to me that Iâ€™ve got about 8 weather apps installed, and follow quite a few people from my area on Twitter & Facebook and can still be surprised by a snow storm.

In some ways it makes me feel like Iâ€™m not overly involved in social media, you know, living my life and all, but then I realize how thoroughly up-to-date I am on memes and think I may just be focused in a very different, and not altogether useful direction. Then again I know Iâ€™ve met and become friends with people at least partially because of a meme they helped create ("keyboard cat" & â€œGod kills a kittenâ€ to name two), and Iâ€™m pretty sure Iâ€™ve never become friends with someone based on them telling me accurate weather updates.Add A Comment

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November 15, 2014 ~♣

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Not Dead Yet

Well, I made it 36 days in a row posting, but seem to have fallen apart since. This whole â€œgoing out of townâ€ thing really screws it up. Guess thatâ€™s why I usually found a friend or two to also post in the past. Weâ€™ll have to see if I can get back into a daily groove or if this becomes more occasional

I seem to not be alone in slowing down around here, judging by the shrinking list on the â€œrecently changedâ€ page. Weâ€™re down to nine as I write this. I do see, though, that 24 of the blogs on my blogroll have updated in November, which is impressively strong. And Iâ€™m seeing a few new names pop up, like ~gruber (who I suppose could be either writer John or economist Jon or, who knows, Hans, but is most likely John).

Thereâ€™s even some new tools up, like ~brennenâ€™s recent update list, that pulls the index title in. Also, he made the same for squiggle.city, which is great. He has the code on his page, and Iâ€™d love it if this became the home page for all the relvokcor.xyz-ish places, and then someone (uh, I suppose Iâ€™d try) threw together a version that merged them all.list

Speaking of all the relvokcor.xyz-sh places, this list by ~pfhawkins got some nice descriptions, in addition to continuing to expand. this list

Speaking of all the relvokcor.xyz-sh places, this list by ~pfhawkins got some nice descriptions, in addition to continuing to expand. Add A Comment

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November 11, 2014 ~♣

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Chatting With Giants

You know whatâ€™s amazing about living now? While this whole internet thing has drastically changed our lives, and is starting to really exist in everything, everywhere, itâ€™s new enough that the people who put it together are still around.

tâ€™s like if you could chat with Gutenberg about his printing press or Ben Franklin about the lightning rod.

And thatâ€™s just it. For most of these people, you can actually send an email, or sometimes a tweet, or even stumble into them at a conference and say, so whereâ€™d the idea for email come from? Howâ€™d you come up with the best method for DNS? What would you do differently if you could start over?

It may be a pain in the ass to get questions like that every day, but you wouldnâ€™t know it from how thoroughly people will respond. You wonder if Gutenberg would be so nice.Add A Comment

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