Weeknotes 259

I might upgrade macOS now they know how to do corners again 😎

I started off the week with food poisoning on Sunday/Monday. Good times. As a result I moped around the house on Monday feeling weak and sorry for myself.

This week I fixed a weird text sizing bug with this website using AI. It took a few minutes. This would’ve taken me hours to figure out manually.

See this screenshot taken on iOS 👇

This is weird, right? Any text which ends up overscrolling it’s container is enlarged. This bug does not happen in Chrome Developer Tools.

It seems that this is a helpful feature in some mobile browsers:

Since text that has been scaled down to fit a mobile screen may be very small, many mobile browsers apply a text inflation algorithm to enlarge the text to make it more readable.

The fix was to control that feature using text-size-adjust.

+html {
+  -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
+  text-size-adjust: 100%;
+}

 pre {
-  overflow: scroll;
+  overflow-x: auto;
   padding: 1em 0;
   margin-left: 2em;
   font-size: 1rem;
 }

I also set the scrolling behaviour to only affect the x axis too as we don’t actually need it to scroll vertically in this instance.

Using daisyUI means less LLM cost and faster UI generation

This surely applies to using any sort of UI abstraction too though. If using function components in a Phoenix app or ViewComponent in Rails you would get a similar benefit? The Daisy UI abstraction is hidden away in node_modules as they say though, so you’re not re-reading that all the time.

I watched Iron Lung. Not sure I’d bother if I were you. I was fairly interested at the beginning. It’s just a shame story is non-existent.

Elixir for a Bluesky DataPlane: the choice we didn’t expect

But when we went looking for the remedy, the problem stayed put. It wasn’t smeared across the service; it sat in one well-defined place we could draw a box around - and a flaw you can box is a flaw you can lift out.

I went to see the new Spielberg film Disclosure Day. I thought it was fantastic. I’ve seen mixed reviews. All I know is I was gripped throughout and it held my attention – quite the feat.

I’ve been writing an app in Elixir and Phoenix and it’s so nice to have a reliable and sane formatting tool in mix format. It just does what I would choose to do from what I can tell so far. No complaints.

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight (via Harry)

The quote from Terence Eden about someone accessing gov.uk on their PSP in a time of real need should be repeated, often.

Making a website a website seems like a good idea.

…form submissions and redirects took a while to explain to my colleagues, on account of everyone being used to heavily client-side web applications.

I don’t say this to shame anyone, you come up learning what is on offer to a certain extent, but fuck me, we are truly lost when web developers don’t know what a form submission or redirect is.