Minimal Character Sheet experienced an unfortunate security event yesterday. About a week or two ago, I inadvertently exposed my Postmark API key. Someone got a hold of it and sent a bunch of spam emails.
Fortunately, Postmark caught it really early and shut it down. I was able to cycle and secure the key. And we're back up and running again.
I feel really dumb for letting that happen.
NEW FEATURE for Minimal Character Sheet 🎉
You can now roll dice directly from your character sheet! And this isn't just Math.random—you're getting true random numbers based on atmospheric noise, thanks to random.org.
https://minimalcharactersheet.com
Somehow, I've never heard of this and I can tell I'm about to go down a deep rabbit hole. I'm sure all you cool people on the Fedi already know all about demoscene but if not, check out this post by @runawaydevil.
https://pablo.space/articles/2026/04/13/demoscene-the-hidden-art-of/
I have *got* to let go of some domain names. I will sit there and fret about whether to subscribe to an app or service, but then grab a pointless domain name like SIGN ME UP, TAKE MY MONEY.
I'm a multi-browser user, but for my personal daily driver I use Firefox. I've been using vertical tabs ever since they came to Firefox and... I might be permanently converted.
I hear Chrome is getting them/got them so I may be using them there soon too.
RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116319373644067043
I recently shared Tuna for Mac, which is an app launcher inspired by Quicksilver. Well here is another, even simpler, launcher (and emoji picker!) that looks great and also has an affordable pay-once license.
The excitement—and, frankly, sheer giddiness—with which this developer introduces his new app is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen this week.
From the minute when I started watching it, I was thinking that the last thing I needed was an app launcher, having had a Powerpack license for Alfred for… checks notes… nearly 14 years!
But the more I watched, the more I was intrigued. Before I could even get done with the video, I had the app and the Pro license.
Yes, I am aware I have a problem.
(Yes, I know Raycast can do everything. If you like it, cool.) #linkblog
Watch this if you need a pick-me-up and want to see a bunch of people fail their charisma saving throws.
I first saw this long questionnaire on @shellsharks's (very cool) website. I started answering them in *checks notes* February! I made myself finish them today. Full frontal nerdity incoming.
You face an undead wizard? I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but a lich ain't one.
This is a great essay full of nostalgia and I can’t help but think about my own adventures in computing when I read it.
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
Scroll My Mac has a website now!
@11ty Is there a world where Web Awesome components could be rendered by Eleventy and then "hydrated" after page load?
I vibe coded for the first time. This is what happened.
I think the landscape of assistive technology software is about to be completely transformed.
Dear Mac app developers, please ask your users before making your app the default for a given file type. It's incredibly jarring and annoying to open a file only to have it open in some app I just installed rather than the one I expected.
Need a browser extension for email that replaces:
"We are updating our subscriber agreement"
with:
"We are altering the deal; pray we don’t alter it further"
One of my goals this year is getting better at CSS. I joke that my CSS skills peaked in 2015. But CSS has gained a ton of new, really cool things and browser support has been moving quickly compared the days of old.
This talk by Dylan Beattie from NDC London 2026 is a great introduction to what CSS is capable of these days.
I’m also slowly working through a course called CSS for JavaScript Developers by Josh Comeau, which is fantastically done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbYveaV0pk
https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-02-10-video-do-it-with-style-rethinking-css/
The CSS Working Group publishes a page with all of the things that they'd like to fix in CSS but can't because the "mistakes" are already in the wild and changing them would break the web—an unforgivable sin. Here are a few of my favorites:
- z-index should be called z-order or depth and should Just Work on all elements (like it does on flex items).
- The alignment properties in Flexbox should have been writing-mode relative, not flex-flow relative, and thus could have reasonably understandable names like align-inline-* and align-block-*.
- It shouldn't be !important — that reads to engineers as “not important”. We should have picked another way to write this.
- Not quite a mistake, because it was a reasonable default for the 90s, but it would be more helpful since then if `background-repeat` defaulted to `no-repeat`.
- Box-sizing should be border-box by default.
And finally, the funniest one:
- Table layout should be sane.
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-02-10-incomplete-list-of-mistakes-in-the-design-of-css/