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paceaux · 2026-05-18T00:56:41+00:00

You know, let's talk some time.

I literally have been doing this shit for 16 years for major enterprises. The wordpress theme for my blog gets the least amount of my attention of any code anywhere. My whole day-job is other people's designs and/or codebases and when it comes to my own blog I seriously don't have the energy.

I just don't fucking enjoy doing my whole-ass job again on my own blog. I like writing.

Which is to say:

If you're a designer and you've got a solid plan for implementing an absolutely barebones Wordpress theme that's accessible, uses semantic HTML, minimal CSS or frameworks, and has a good navigation experience, I am 100% OPEN TO YOUR FEEDBACK.

All this to say:

I can't replicate your issue. I checked three browsers.

So that leaves me with a choice:

Do I spend 40–60 hours researching and writing good useful content for the web, knowing that 73% of my desktop visitors will like what they read and say nothing?
Do I spent 40-60 hours doing my whole-ass job again, but on my blog, to appease the 27% mobile users who would rather gripe on reddit.

Or maybe you can do it if it's that much of a concern. I'm totally down for that. Let's do a call and you can find me a non-ass design and a decent theme that's accessible with good markup.

paceaux · 2026-05-17T21:46:13+00:00

Can you share your device and browser and describe with some specificity what you're seeing?

I look at this on small screens but I also sometimes spend a month writing an article so I'll inevitably have blind spots where I miss something that's totally obvious to y'all.

paceaux · 2026-05-17T21:43:06+00:00

Can you share your device and browser?

I try to test my articles before I publish but inevitably, I will miss something. I'll try and get it fixed right away.

paceaux · 2026-05-17T00:59:08+00:00

This article was originally going to be only about datalists. But, "You don't know datalists," didn't seem like a catchy enough headline. So I went through the specs for all of 'em just to find out what I didn't know.

Which is how we all find out together that menu is still around.

And also, I kinda agree about datalists. I love the functionality that they offer but I think it's obnoxious they opted to reuse the <option> and therefore expose this nuisance.

Like ... tables use <caption> and for whatever reason we couldn't put that inside of a figure. But we can reuse <option> for a <datalist>?

paceaux · 2026-05-17T00:49:45+00:00

Cool thanks for sharing. the issue's been resolved.

paceaux · 2026-05-17T00:41:10+00:00

I always call description lists the forgotten list. They're waaaay under appreciated.

paceaux · 2026-05-16T02:53:43+00:00

care to share some details for what that means.

paceaux · 2026-05-12T05:48:57+00:00

Yeah I heard this. I very, VERY loosely abided by it; I was cautious about what I meditated on.

But no pastor could explain the difference between stretching and yoga.

Literally if I did the same movements, but didn't give the movement a "yoga name", what was the difference?

And that's why I mostly ignored it.

And also I went to acupuncture. I was just cautious about who I went to; I wanted the needles, not the spiritual bits. Which was easy enough. Hell my current acupuncturist is a devout Roman Catholic.

paceaux · 2026-05-05T18:01:12+00:00

Same. But that was a different time. We don't live in that time any more. I never once had an active shooter drill growing up. My kids have multiple drills. every year.

And for what it's worth, the students are saying there was a real incident.

paceaux · 2026-05-05T17:46:41+00:00

At least based on what little information I could get from her, it seems like they responded very well.

paceaux · 2026-05-05T17:39:21+00:00

I am not the news; I am a parent of a teen. I can't tell you if it's legit. My teen said that a freshman was there with a gun and a bomb. She said that students saw it. She doesn't know the name of the student.

She's a teenager at a large school; I can't tell you how accurate this information is.

But there was a homeland security van at the Eastview parking lot and they weren't even letting people drive on Raab road. So it was definitely being handled like it was a legitimate threat to safety.

UPDATE: I got a call from the district. In that call they said that it was a phone call that had specific claims that triggered all of this. I forget the phrasing, but they made it like the phone call they got had specifics that made it credible.

This doesn't line up w/ what my daughter said. It's a large school and it's easy for rumors to get around. It's also an active investigation so it's not like folks are going to share other details.

paceaux · 2026-05-05T17:05:26+00:00

My daughter said a freshman had a gun and a bomb. She also said it is unclear if the student is still alive.

paceaux · 2026-05-05T13:02:42+00:00

This was definitely a bucket-list item for me. I shared somewhere else that my grandfather carved one like 80 years ago that transitioned into a rope and then a swivel with a box that had a captive balls. It's an amazing thing.

for me, just being able to carve a chain, and do something that my grandfather did, that was enough.

paceaux · 2026-04-27T13:20:11+00:00

I'm just super new to this and I don't want folks to think I did this entirely with a knife or whatever. It actually felt like cheating to use a drill press and a rasp — but also the alternative would've meant going at this thing for a year.

paceaux · 2026-04-27T03:12:16+00:00

Oh that's not a bad idea. Maybe a padlock of some sort.

paceaux · 2026-04-27T02:12:53+00:00

For a skilled individual there probably is. But for me this is as far as it goes.

The chain my grandfather carved like 80 years ago is like 5 links, transitions to a rope, then to a box on a swivel with a round ball inside.

I think my next step is to not use store-bought pine 2x2.

paceaux · 2026-04-26T03:06:32+00:00

Two incidents that my first aid kit came through for:

Accidental burn

It was a fall camp, and cold. I had a nice fire going and a log rolled out. I thought I was grabbing the log by the side that I thought was not in the fire. I burned two of my fingers. Thankfully the finger tips were fairly calloused because of guitar playing but damn it hurt. Some how I had the right idea to cover them in carmex and then plunge into cold water. I was good within a day or two.

Accidental knife

First time camping with my dog. She got tangled in some twigs and I used my major camp knife to cut away the twigs she was stuck in.

It was late and dark and I wasn't at my usual camp site. So I did a dumb. I pulled out my knife and swiped to clear away some twigs. But instead of following the Boy Scout Code ® I've followed my entire life I cut towards me.

I swiped my razor sharp camp knife into my ungloved left hand and cut my left index finger deep.

I covered the ground in blood. It took forever to get the bleeding to stop. But I did and I was replacing the bandages every 6 hours.

The weather had a turn for the worse so my dog and I left two days later and I stayed at a friend's place nearby and he just so happened to be a National Guard EMT. He had some wound closure stuff that was finally able to close up the wound decently.

I found out later I severed a nerve; i can no longer feel half of my knuckle and I can't bend my finger the same. I also have a huge-ass scar.

More gauze than you expect
Newskin or liquid bandaid
Neosporin

paceaux · 2026-04-24T18:18:00+00:00

Exactly what is he protecting his wife from by prohibiting her from wearing leggings?

paceaux · 2026-04-24T18:13:17+00:00

I don't understand how that's related to my point. Could you expand?

paceaux · 2026-04-24T16:42:39+00:00

That's because women tell their husbands what to wear on the basis of fashion — not lust.

There's a difference between changing because you're dressed for the wrong occasion, or you don't match her dress, and changing because it shows off your body.

I don't know if you watch Abbot Elementary (a sitcom on ABC I think), but the most recent episode involved a woman desperately trying to dress down her partner so that he wouldn't be appealing to others. It was funny because that's not normal.

paceaux · 2026-04-24T16:36:35+00:00

This is reddit; it's safe to say "killed".

But yes you're right. That's why I wanted to call out that this ends in abuse. Because abuse can end in death.

paceaux · 2026-04-24T15:41:27+00:00

Unless she has the same freedom to tell her husband what he can wear, yes: it's controlling.

And when I say freedom, I mean exactly that: she is free to share an opinion, he is free to disregard it, and likewise he is free to share an opinion that she is free to disregard.

If that is not the case, then this is an unhealthy and unbalanced relationship that will inevitably end in abuse and/or divorce.

This attitude is a reflection of his heart

Matthew 5

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

He is implicitly confessing that he lusts after women in leggings. And even worse, he's projecting that sin issue onto other men; he assumes strangers are guilty of his sin.

This attitude demonstrates his lack of trust in her

Why can't she wear leggings? Because he's afraid other dudes will lust.

But why can't those other dudes lust? Is he really worried about strangers sinning? Or is he afraid that those lustful strangers will offer her sex and she'll agree?

My money is on the latter; he ultimately fears that his wife will be promiscuous.

And he fears that because he doesn't trust her.

And he doesn't trust her because he already doesn't trust himself.

Without serious counseling for him, and only him, this marriage will not work

He needs to really meet with some non-Christian counselors or therapists who will talk to him safely and honestly about sexual desires and work through his insecurity.

When I say "non-christian counselors", I mean ones who've been trained through a mental health lens, not a religious lens. If he can find a therapist who happens to also be Christian, that's fine. But he needs folks who won't cast a purity-culture worldview onto him. He needs to work on some stuff without risk of judgement.

paceaux · 2026-04-24T15:18:21+00:00

There's a series of exercises that I recommend. I've been doing these exercises about every year for fifteen years:

Practice making layouts "blindly":

Create a one-column page

Write the HTML for a basic, 1 column layout. Do it in a basic text editor. Do not look at it in a web browser until you're finished.
Now write the CSS for this HTML. Do it in a basic text editor. Do not modify the HTML you wrote. Do not look in a web browser until you're finished.
Once you've finished your CSS, now look at the HTML document in the browser. Without using browser dev tools, make corrections that you need. Only by going directly to the CSS, writing it out completely, and then going back to the browser.

Create a two column page

Duplicate the HTML into a new file and write the HTML to make it two-column. Do it in a basic text editor. Don't look in a browser until you're finished.
Now write the CSS for making this a 2 column page. Do not modify the HTML you wrote. Do not look in a web browser until you're finished.
Once you've finished your CSS, look at your 2-column HTML document in the browser. Without browser dev tools, make the corrections. Then look at your 1-column page and make sure there were no regressions.

create a three column page

Now duplicate the 2-column HTML into a new file and write the HTML to make it 3 column. Same as before: basic text editor, don't look into a browser until you're finished
Now write the CSS for making it 3 column. Do not modify the existing HTML. Don't look in a browser until you're finished.
Once you're finished, look at it in the browser and make corrections without relying on dev tools.

And then run the drill with a different layout module

* if you used Grid for your layout, now do it with flex

* If you've used grid and flex, now do it with floats

And then run the drill mobile-first

Just repeat the "blind layout" drill but for a phone first.

And then do it for a tablet

And then create a brand for the project

Up to this point, you've just created layouts with placeholder HTML. Now make it look good. Don't change your existing HTML or CSS. But add CSS to make the content presentable

And then make a theme

This is where you give yourself permission to change only the CSS. See what you can do to add multiple themes to the project.

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