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  I hadn’t realised that Firefox now generates tagged PDFs when printing, that’s super nice functionality: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/accessible/TaggedPdfOutput.html (thanks @jcsteh@aus.social!)

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  Finally got around to playing Obra Dinn and oh my.

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  Writing some Tailwind for once, and it really feels like one of those mass industry illusions we’ll wake up from soon and wonder why on earth we thought that was a good idea.

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  Nice to see electric ferries becoming a thing. My local ferry service to Denmark has two of their three boats electric. And I’ve just booked a ferry to Fanø where one of the two is.

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  Quite pleased with my latest #standardEbooks cover, managed to find a werewolf-esque wolf (that has more than a passing resemblence to my scottie) in the background of a much larger 17th century Dutch painting: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Satire-on-the-Trial-of-Johan-van-Oldenbarnevelt--268c4128e80a5ed0e5234c7fb496a12e

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  Today’s front-end learning: a valid ID that’s not a valid selector (e.g. one with a `\,` in it) can be made selectable with querySelector by first passing it through CSS.escape. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS/escape_static

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  @SmudgeTheInsultCat one of my prouder moments at GDS was replacing a photo of Cameron with a photo of Larry in the then-design-system. https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_elements/pull/373

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  The Aeron of Theseus continues, with new old stock fabric arm pads. Apparently Enron (where this chair came from originally) special-ordered fabric ones for unknown reasons. In the last 30 years it’s had two new gas struts, a new base mesh, support foam, and now arm pads. I reckon it’s easily got the same life left in it.

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  Putting together a compilation of short stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective fame) and I really love this archaeology part. I’ve already transcribed 2–3 shorts from 1870s magazine scans that aren’t on her Wikipedia page. But there’s a novella called “Trooping with Crows” with no public scans available. Luckily you can pay British Library to digitise books from their collection, so #standardEbooks will have the first publication since 1880 (for free of course).

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  Looks like the Fehmarn tunnel can start progressing again. This will make train journeys into Europe so much quicker. https://www.vk.se/2026-04-03/efter-tva-ar-nu-kan-tunneln-laggas-danmarktyskland-bfea0

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  Putting an old Apple Time Capsule up for sale so reset it to factory settings, but out of caution double-checked and found that the reset just reset the settings, not the drive contents, so they’re now being wiped. Then I remembered that I’d bought the same box second-hand on eBay and when it turned up I found the drive full of recordings of US military planning sessions for Afghanistan operations. Those got deleted sharpish.

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  Not sure what I was expecting from an orchestral arrangement of Arkanoid, but this exceeded it: https://youtu.be/b7aa7Dajw0M

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  Bubble-sorting a chopped amen break is a product of a sick mind and I love it https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting

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  I’ve only read the idea prompts in @rottytooth’s Forty-Four Esolangs so far but they’re genuinely beautiful, and, in an age of LLMs eating the normal, they seem almost transgressively human. https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs