A place to jot down ideas, notes, pointers.
A simple change which I am really enjoying. For Windows 10 users, the default System font is the new 'Segoe UI' font and its variants, all included in the default Windows 10 install.
However, it IS possible to change it, to whichever font you feel would be more readable, or prettier, or that you prefer for any reason.
As a laptop user primarily, it's been an uphill battle getting good clients for #fediverse which recognize and respect the fact we have lots of pixels.
Responsive Design is great – I have started learning and practising it, understand the logic. Good stuff.
But, honestly – the internet has too much to offer for real work to be performed in a mobile device. Content creation, we need better software that allows us to use what's in our chosen platform.
An update I will share with friends, I have been looking for an alternative to my previous favourite browser. Waterfox, which I have used for years now, is itself an alternative to Firefox, developed based on it, and improved.
But – it has been laggy and acting up on the most recent releases. See the many new topics and people complaining about problems, in the Reddit Waterfox sub-forum. Time to look around for a better tool.
On June 3, I wrote a Toot at my new account, found late on the previous night. (the busy tabs list mentioned is the banner above)
A picture of my busy Tabs list in #Waterfox browser shows that I really was looking for some good GlitchSocial instances.
Had been intensively searching for a list (non-existant, afaik) of Glitch-Social instances. They tend to be blended in with generic mastodon ones, so it was quite a chore. In a Blog page about this, I wrote:
[ I WILL provide that list soon — there is a need ]
Originally posted as a sequence of Toots from my account at Koyu.Space, this was well received, appreciated by the Pinafore client's Author and I think is quite informative.
There's a lack of good reporting and documentation on many projects in the Fediverse.
But Pinafore is beloved of its users – see screenshot above, from the #Pinafore fediverse hashtag. And some others below too. 👍🙂❤
@joaopinheiro@libranet.de And I came back, on a quiet moment to read your new blog page. Very nice – I really enjoyed it, and think it can be useful to other people as well.
Same as you, I first learned about MarkDown upon getting started with blogging – using the Write.Freely software, which is the free open source version of the Write.as blog.
A collage of recent posts on important issues we face in the Fediverse. And which we hopefully can move forward on.
Originally In response to a post by Snow
Why you chose Glitch social? It still can be affected by Eugen.
Indeed — Glitch-Social is a Much Better mastodon, but still has the heavy load of all the mastocode under the hood.
This morning I stumbled across an interesting blog, and in it, a reference to a good markdown text editor.
Have tried others before, and not for long; I am familiar with the MD tags, and work well with the EditPad Lite text editor, or from inside the nice Dark Themed Write.freely blog editor, if I am composing a new blog page.
This is in regards to the cool new 'Zonelets Blogs', created and maintained by Marina Kittaka.
Marina create this new project last month, November 2020, and it's got some really interesting aspects – a very simple approach, pure html source code, allowing people to learn and get familiar with the inner workings of the Web.
It is a minimalist approach, intentionally – as opposed to the heavy and too complex situation we see with WordPress and other large publishing platforms.
...when something much nicer is freely available?
Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation. This typeface was originally release with Windows 98 as part of our vision to significantly improve on screen reading time. Verdana Pro adds light, semibold and black styles with italics, as well as condensed styles with italics across all weights.