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This ‘migratory nerd’ has moved back to OVH for hosting

In code, choosing spaces over tabs creates accessibility barriers. The developer ‘Holy Wars’ ignore this.

Besides removing all the cover images on the site, you may have noticed the change in logos, colours, and various other details. Here’s what that is all about.

“… each of my posts has usually sported a big ol’ hero image as the background for the post’s title, description, and date-of-issuance info. That, too, has been limiting and even delaying, even if only as a lame excuse on my part. After all, it’s not always possible to find a freebie stock photo that has even a tangential connection to a post’s subject(s).” (Bryce Wray in a post about CTCAJW mode)

This site now lives on an Alpine instance via Vultr.com public cloud. No more Azure Storage Blob web hosting (Microsoft) for me. And though it wasn’t a financial decision, I save money!

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted in a long time: “I have been up to tech!”

Some pages have been completely removed during the merge and reconstruction of The Wild Tech “Garden” and Daniel F. Dickinson (Website)

With browsers having built-in “Open link in new tab” functionality, it doesn’t make sense to break a basic web idiom (the back button) on a whim. Auto-opening link in a new tab/window breaks the back button and is unnecessary (because users have the ability to make that choice for themselves).

One of the lessons I’ve learned over the last few years is to relax and let others do what they do better than I. For instance, I recently updated my ‘introduction card’ (aka business card), but this time instead of designing it myself, I decided to rely on the professional designer at the Midland Copy Shoppe. I am very glad that I did, and I will show you why.

It seems I’m doing more front-end web work than is ideal these days. I say that because I tend to prefer technical aspects of web development…