Watch this if you need a pick-me-up and want to see a bunch of people fail their charisma saving throws.

Nice color scheme from the CEO of Obsidian. I’ve been using this color scheme in various apps. There are a few versions in Obsidian, particularly in the Minimal theme and the Baseline theme.

I’ve also used the Flexoki variants of the One Hunter Theme for VS Code.

My new tab page browser extension, A Fine Start, also includes light and dark Flexoki themes.

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.

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.

I had a Fonts.com subscription for a number of years, followed by a Monotype one. I also had a cloud.typography sub for webfonts. All of those services were from Monotype, the largest type company in the world.

Lately I’ve been acquiring fonts from indie foundries and quit giving Monotype money. Feels good man.

Even if you’re not in the market for a professional font, just browsing the incredible artwork and type specimens from these foundries makes The Punch worth a look.