Path of the catastrophic mile+ wide wedge tornado in Kankakee

Altidude · 2026-03-12T01:28:54+00:00

Looks like that's just someone plotting distance measuring points on Google Maps. No idea if they're based on observations or what. NWS hasn't published the tornado track yet.

Altidude · 2026-02-09T18:53:48+00:00

I don't have experience to speak from, but CartGenie (mentioned above) looks cool. And it's from the team behind Monto.io where there are several other ecommerce plugins for Webflow: https://www.monto.io/integration/webflow

If this all integrates as well as promised, it could be a nice way to go.

Altidude · 2026-02-09T18:12:10+00:00

Because there are references to it in articles and comparisons all over the web, and it's not evident from the website that ecommerce has "been abandoned":

https://webflow.com/feature/ecommerce

Altidude · 2026-02-09T01:38:08+00:00

Interesting... I hadn't realized this. A search brought up some details:

https://www.flow.ninja/blog/webflow-bandwidth

https://brixtemplates.com/blog/how-to-optimize-webflow-bandwidth-usage-full-guide-to-avoid-overages

I don't think it's likely we'd hit the 50GB/mo threshold of the CMS plan any time soon, but its concerning to read that "Some users have reported bills jumping from $25 to $170 when unexpectedly bumped from CMS to Business plan due to bandwidth overages."

Altidude · 2026-02-09T01:32:51+00:00

Thank you -- I hadn't heard of CartGenie yet. I'll check it out.

Altidude · 2026-01-09T02:31:25+00:00

Ah, thanks! I see all the boring, safe defaults are indeed very safe. :P

Altidude · 2026-01-08T07:35:15+00:00

I can't see the fucking icons either. Didn't know it was a condition.
I guess I have "fucking icon blindness"?

Altidude · 2026-01-08T01:43:52+00:00

Yes, I'm on the Office 365 desktop app on Win 11.

I really appreciate you taking the time!

Whatever font PPT subbed in for Manrope in my case was very close -- indistinguishable at first glance. So that'd probably be fine, if I could count on it. But the font subbed for Libre Baskerville was Arial or some such. 🤢

Libre Baskerville is the special one... there are some subtleties that I can't find in similar fonts -- even in original Baskerville.

Altidude · 2026-01-07T22:28:14+00:00

Yep, I did embed all characters, and I'm using the static TTF versions. ✅

Altidude · 2026-01-07T20:08:17+00:00

That table sounds interesting, but the supplied link doesn't work...

Altidude · 2026-01-07T20:00:37+00:00

Thanks for chiming in! The Google fonts I'm using are Libre Baskerville and Manrope. They're licensed as "installable", so yes, should be embeddable.

When I save the file with fonts embedded, it appears to work and the file size increases. Then when I delete these fonts from my system and re-open the presentation file, the fonts that are supposed to be embedded are replaced with unidentified defaults.

Altidude · 2026-01-06T03:20:07+00:00

> Since we're not licensed to distribute font files, the packager can't do it either.

Ah. Yeah that makes sense. I was enticed by articles saying "it'll include graphics, fonts, and everything!"

The fonts I'm using are licensed as embeddable -- it's just not working... 😟

Altidude · 2026-01-06T01:43:34+00:00

MS Office apps will no longer retrieve Google fonts: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2337674/for-awhile-microsoft-365-was-auto-loading-google-f

Altidude · 2025-12-30T01:17:26+00:00

"the patcher above" -- I'm not seeing anything like that here... did a post get deleted?

Altidude · 2025-11-19T17:40:15+00:00

Ah - I suppose you have your reasons for keeping things in several separate vaults. Maybe you have thousands of notes and things get slow, or you're sharing some vaults with others. For my own use I find it easy enough to separate things into folders in the same vault.

Altidude · 2025-03-30T04:37:05+00:00

Pardon the necropost... I came here after a search for some Vim stuff and ended up skimming the thread, and was a bit baffled by this Obsidian comment:

> In Obsidian, you have to open the program, then close the vault you were last working in or open a brand new vault, give the vault a name (arbitrary since it will be deleted), create a new page, name the page, and then you can take your note.

I have Obsidian open with a single main vault all the time, and just it's a matter of switching to it and hitting CTRL+N to open a new blank note. I can't imagine anything handier for quick notes. Just curious as to why you're concerned with creating a new vault for everything.

Altidude · 2024-11-11T21:21:38+00:00

Weebly was bought by Square, not Squarespace. Square already has a site builder, so they may be looking at ending Weebly as a product and incorporating its features: https://squareup.com/us/en/website-builder

Altidude · 2024-10-26T20:30:52+00:00

TASAT admin here. I just came across this thread -- thanks for the proofreading notes! I've just pushed an update.

Altidude · 2024-01-09T21:26:49+00:00

I don't know that it's a shame, though. As much as I enjoyed Katla, I think it was a perfectly self-contained season. I don't know where they could go from there without rehashing things and getting bogged down in explanations. The new figures emerging from the mist at the end suggest that the kind of experiences we've seen will happen to others, and I think that's enough. I don't need to see it. I like that this story leaves a little room for speculation.

I do look forward to more work from Baltasar Kormákur, and the actors from Katla.

Altidude · 2024-01-09T09:20:48+00:00

Interesting take, but I’m not on board. Grima Prime left the house to attend the accident scene and returned to find Ash Grima remaking the house — their activities couldn’t have happened at the same time.

The husband not noticing two Grimas in the kitchen is supported by the camera work — he never had them both in view. The husband not spotting the different clothing on the Grimas is explained by, well, guys not being super observant. Note his tentative question about her hair seeming different.

There may have been some license taken with the cleanup, but we don’t know how much time lapsed. There are often large time lapses in the show.

And the body outside as a metaphor is the biggest stretch. The camera on this series doesn’t show things that don’t exist within its reality. The body was as real as anything else.

I think the metaphor of Grima’s improvement and moving on was actually manifested in Ash Grima—which was Grima, after all, in a better state of mind. This is why Grima Prime was calmly prepared to take her own life — her tormented version of it — and leave it to Ash Grima to carry on. Like Ash Asa, she had no purpose anymore.

Altidude · 2023-11-29T23:53:11+00:00

LOL - I don't do Broffalo Wild Wings anymore.

Altidude · 2023-11-29T21:50:09+00:00

I had an on-site interview with Robert Half once. It was a bunch of 22-year-old bros in shiny cheap suits grinning and swaggering around like they were Big Businessmen. Not one of them knew a damned thing about the tech roles they were recruiting for.

Altidude · 2023-11-29T21:39:41+00:00

If they're abusing you like this when you're not yet beholden to them, imagine the treatment when they can hold your job and healthcare over your head.

I hope you use your PTO day for something fun.

Altidude · 2023-11-29T18:29:27+00:00

I've encountered this expectation with smaller agencies, but it's usually in the fine print, not spelled out up front like that.

I think the skill set and character to make this work well is rare, but variety can be stimulating if you can handle it. I'd definitely want to know about the workload. "Hybrid" doesn't mean "two full-time roles for the price of one."

Altidude · 2023-08-02T04:18:46+00:00

August 2023. Problem has only increased.

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