@malarkey Nasenbraun has a certain ring to it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/115841023208902327

Well that was news to me.

2nd edn: I thought the section on lists would require a light bit of editing. But then up pops `::marker` and `@counter-style` and my Sunday disappears.

Never the less, many thanks to @geoff and @argyleink for:

https://css-tricks.com/some-things-you-might-not-know-about-custom-counter-styles/

and

https://web.dev/articles/css-marker-pseudo-element

among others.

@malarkey I think your finely tuned sense of taste comes through.

@rem was 2 any good?

@zeborah @kottke yeah that’s what I mean – put mixed spice in your hot cross buns, not allspice!

@jimniels that’s good service design right there. Ensuring the physical and digital align by running off the same data source.

@brad_frost otherwise what @pete said. Portishead. Incredible.

@brad_frost *Timeless* by *Goldie*. Longform drum n’ bass yet to be bettered.

Also *Head Like a Hole* by *Nine Inch Nails* was a gateway into a musical world I’ve never really left.

@kottke if your Hot Cross Buns taste like jerk chicken you’ve just discovered that ‘allspice’ and ‘mixed spice’ are not the same thing.

That may or may not be a UK thing?

I have a talk a month every month from Jan - March. It’d be cool if I could give 3 more talks next year. I have 3 different talks (one is still being developed) about browsers & web standards — book me if that sounds like your jam!

@craiggrannell that’s how the bastards got me

@pete you’ll be saying they haven’t sent you a washer-dryer-wrap-up next!

@Luke yep. Or at least I still have my account. Don’t know when I last posted to it. Although I still have a soft spot for Flickr.

Ok I concede Twenty Four Hour Garage People and Joy Division Oven Gloves did manage to raise a wry smile.

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/joy-division-oven-gloves/281413984?i=281414062

Put on some Half Man Half Biscuit for a chuckle, but for all Nigel Blackwell’s magnificent word-smithery, all I can hear is the melancholy within 😔

@letterror Yes. Bit by bit over the next 20 years we might undo more of the entirely predictable Brexit catastrophe. If we can keep Farage out of power.

For your collective delectation this holiday season:

Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I’ve ever made)!

https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/

[And If you've enjoyed this piece of seasonal silliness (and, critically, have a few quid to spare) I'd be grateful if you popped them in the hat:

https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure

(Support for the blog is a big part of how I fund my PhD expenses!)]

@slightlyoff suits me fine. Richard (aged 53).