Weeknotes 259
14th June, 2026
“Weird text sizing bug”
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I might upgrade macOS now they know how to do corners again 😎
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.