Gentoo penguins in Antarctica (© Nature Picture Library/Alamy)

nikitonsky: Same controls in the same place, please. For 10+ years I’ve been clicking on the leftmost icon to get to replies, to the second left for retweet etc.

The blog linked in a previous post is a gem. Too bad the current site doesn’t appear to have all the archived posts, you need strong search–fu to find them on archive.org.

Christmas tree of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France (© Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images)

Hugo is a gateway for discovering neat golang libraries. Version 0.104.0 introduced a color extraction method that has lots of use–cases. An easy one is to generate basic image gradient placeholders. The browser has its own deferred/lazy loading logic so fancy image gradients (on a static site) require only a few lines of pre–generated CSS styles.

Sun halo over Lake Antermoia in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy (© Walter Donega/Getty Images)

This memo describes an RTP payload format for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) specification, which was published as both ITU-T

Reverse pagination is a counter–intuitive strategy for attempting to make links immutable/cacheable and bookmark friendly across older pages. I searched for a visual explanation (difficult to explain concisely) and eventually arrived at an old article on paging apis. Reverse pagination has its gotchas, but then again pagination itself is one big gotcha.. :-) Well, it depends on the use case really.

Christmas market at Belvedere in Vienna, Austria (© Diyana Dimitrova/Alamy)

A northern cardinal perched in a common winterberry bush in Marion County, Illinois (© Richard and Susan Day/Danita Delimont)