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Remember, folks, if you change a URL on your website and you don't create redirect, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will break into your house at night and kill you with a ceremonial dagger fashioned in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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Player’s Handbook: As a druid, we recommend putting your lowest ability score on Strength.

Also Player’s Handbook: Weapons? You get a quarterstaff and a sickle. Yes they both rely on Strength.

Yeah I know Shillelagh is a thing but I think it's weird that a druid has to burn a bonus action every minute to have a usable weapon attack (out of the box, anyway).

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I love when you unsubscribe from an email list and they have a thing that says if you accidentally unsubscribed, click here.

Like, yes, I accidentally scrolled to the end of your email, found the buried unsubscribe link, clicked it, clicked a check box that says yes I want to unsubscribe from all emails, submitted the form, and then realized it was all an accident.

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There’s never been a better time to learn HTML… because I made a few minor updates to HTML for People.

Rolling your own website is hugely rewarding. It’s hard to explain but there’s a real sense of agency and control. If you feel trapped by corporate platforms, here’s your way out.

htmlforpeople.com/

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There are people in my circles who, if they change their avatar, will completely ruin my life.

I have massive respect for people who use the same avatar everywhere for eons. I'm just not one of those people. I tend to get bored with mine after a while.

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I recently discovered the Cupertino theme for @obsidian and it really is *chef's kiss*. I would especially recommend it to people new to Obsidian who don't really care about loading it up with all the power features and whatnot, as it is a low effort way to make Obsidian appear much nicer (IMO)

I try not to fiddle with settings too much because if I don't watch myself, I'll fiddle for days instead of actually using the app for what it was made for.

That being said, I couldn't help but install the Style Settings plugin and tweak some of Cupertino's settings. I also set up some custom CSS and typography. I'm using Helvetica Now Text with a few stylistic sets activated. And because I am a heavy click-and-drag-the-scrollbar user (for accessibility reasons), I've given the scrollbars my go-to big chonker treatment.

github.com/aaaaalexis/obsidian

Screenshot of Obsidian shows a minimal, spacious layout in dark mode with subdued accents. In the main editor area has some text describing a D&D spell. It includes a nice-looking table. The scroll bars are two to three times wider than the native scrollbar would be.

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Lmao @mhilltopple on (American) football:

> A lot of people will defend challenges tooth-and-nail, because the instant-replay reveals so many bad calls. I say stop whining about a few bad calls. Often the challenge is over something ridiculous, like whether one molecule of the football went over the endzone. I’m sorry, but maybe you just don’t deserve that touchdown if it takes state-of-the-art, slow-motion cameras at three different angles to verify it.

mattwatson.org/blog/20250630-w

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My brother @mhilltopple and I made our mom a super simple grocery list app that has one and only one list. I just found out she’s also been using it as a generic to-do list.

- Bread
- Milk
- Sandwich meat
- Call the insurance company
- Cheese

I don’t know how to feel about it.

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