Happenings

Doesn’t feel like much has happened this week. Took the kids for a walk in the woods yesterday, a bit of cooking today. A new pizza place opened in my small town doing proper neapolitan-style pizza, and they do have some vegan offerings (a minor miracle). We tried it on Friday, it was excellent.

Links

A small crop today.

On this site

The Sun and the Air had an idea for inlining footnotes, and I liked it so much I added it to this site (I also emailed him a version that works on Bearblog). It’s a script that moves footnotes up to their references in the main body of the text. If you’re reading a post without JavaScript e.g. in RSS reader, it’ll remain as a regular footnote. You can try it here.[1] If you’d like this on your site too, the script is right there in the page source. You’ll just have to tweak it to how your site formats footnotes.

Having never properly examined the page source of my actual site on the web (as opposed to locally), I never noticed Cloudflare (which hosts my site currently) is inserting a script into my pages. Supposedly, all it does is obfuscate my email address from bots (though since it’s minified JavaScript it’s hard to tell). I could turn this feature off, as I don’t really like the idea of Cloudflare adding stuff to my pages (and I do take some measures to obfuscate email anyway using just HTML+CSS), but at the same time, I don’t get any spam to thetangent.space, so perhaps I’ll just leave it there.

Playing

Not a lot, a small amount of progress in Chrono Trigger.

Reading

I finished The Right To Oblivion and started the next book in Jared Henderson’s technology reading list, The Score by C. Thi Nguyen. This is so far a much easier read, and very interesting, analysing how and why scoring systems tend to create good incentives in games, but perverse incentives in real life. It was such a chill and breezy read that I found time to pick up The Republic again, which I started last year but never quite got around to finishing.

  1. Boo! ↩︎