Yesterday’s little accessability adventure unsurprisingly opened a whole ‘nother can of worms. As I was showing off my work in Front End Study Hall and learning how to check on dark mode easily in a browser, it became painfully obvious, to those who prefer dark mode, that this site doesn’t do dark mode. At all.

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I have a little newsletter on Buttondown. It is free to anyone, although I can receive voluntary payments. To that end, I sometimes insert what is called an interstitial in messages to people who are not paying subscribers asking them to upgrade. And to make it stand out just a little I give it a pale yellow background. Whether it works to “convert” people I don’t know, but I do know that in one important respect, it didn’t work.

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For a little more than four years now I have kept half an eye on visitors to my various sites using Jason McIntosh’s Bise. I like the hand-rolled ritual each Sunday morning of renaming the log files, running my duct-taped scripts, the brief shot of elation (or despair), and then putting the log files away, never to be looked at again. Except, I do look at them again occasionally, and this is one of those occasions.

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My CDO let me down recently, as I discovered that I had given my annual reviews at least three different kinds of title, and as I had also chosen to not give them their own tag, distinct from Monthlies, it was a bit of a pain finding them. As it is, four I still have not found, but I have another whole year to do that. If, indeed, they exist. And as I seem to have a general outline format, I shall continue to use that.

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For the past couple of months there have been problems with the comments on this website. For the most part I have been happy to solve them manually. There aren’t that many and I’m about to redesign everything (eventually) so no point dealing with it now. Then yesterday, thanks to my on-this-day facility, I noticed Comments plugin fixed from 2019.

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