George Bernard Shaw grumpily turning things down.

The House of Guardaboschi, 1912 #artnouveau #gustavklimt wikiart.org/en/gustav-klim…

This is #Vinnytsia after today’s Russian air strike

For ten years I’ve wondered if me and my best friend completely ruined a young footballer’s life when we were teenagers. So, for the The Guardian Long Read, I flew twelve hours to try and find him. theguardian.com/football/2022/…

Appalling gap in knowledge from the ChatGPT bot. Tom Holland Dominic Sandbrook

This is like discovering The Wreck of the Titan was written 14 years before the Titanic:

Moonlight Night. Winter

New project 11 months in the making! Lilies & Roses of P.J. Redouté. I created a digital edition of his most stunning collections from 1802–1833. Colorful posters and an in-depth blog post about how it was made: Explore: c82.net/work/?id=396 Blog: c82.net/blog?id=95

Anybody need a website? 🙃

I really enjoyed redesigning the Front Porch Republic site! Do check it out.

New: I recreated Tomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise, Clavis Cælestis, and its accompanying sheets titled A Synopsis of the Universe. New posters are available in antique style and modern colors. Link in next post.

They’re back!

This long abandoned homestead north of Shaniko, Oregon is pouring lovely yellow roses out from beside its front door, where someone surely planted one *many* years ago. The perfume was lovely, and the sight unforgettable and poignant. Took a cutting to plant by our front door.

Quirky, OK, but I cannot understand why that /a/ is falling over to the left. /S/ seems top heavy too?

Making a small tool that lets you copy glyphs to your clipboard. I know there are others out there; this one’s just an exercise to get more comfortable with TypeScript.

Now in code. (Middle tile shows hover state. WIP — isn’t everything?)

2:27:16 of tinkering later, the bottom sheet in my little app has been demoted to a modal 😩 (Not worth a dependency in this case.)

I bought some fonts recently. Caslon and Futura. In metal.