list of articles tagged @til
“You no longer need JavaScript” (via) — or, an overview of features of modern CSS and HTML.
♧ 2025-08-29tell.wtf (via) is a very useful website for searching and composing nonstandard Unicode glyphs and characters, based on a hand-drawn sketch of a glyph to be found.
♧ 2025-05-14“Blue light filters don’t work” (via, via), and thus “Quicker and easier ways to get more light”, and “Seriously bright light vs. winter blahs”, and “Your room can be as bright as the outdoors”. Basically, the advice boils down to buying a bunch of 9600lm (lm = lumen) LED lightbulbs, or alternatively equivalent LED floodlights. (Need to manage heating and power requirements, though.) This then should hopefully improve both day-time energy and mood, as well as feeling of drowsiness and sleepiness in the evening (assuming overall light intensity is then globally reduced).
♧ 2025-02-25In Google maps, tap the GPS-identified “blue dot” on the map, pick “Calibrate with live view”, scan the surroundings with the phone’s camera (via, via).
♧ 2024-02-26In Firefox, entering
♧ 2023-09-12about:config, then enablingbrowser.urlbar.suggest.calculator(via) makes it show results of math expressions typed into URL bar.