Damian’s notes

Today’s five-minute job slamming to a halt because React Markdown does not deign to have an old-timey CommonJS entry point and the TypeScript-savvy Jest bundled with Create React App doesn’t work with currently fashionable ES6 modules. Sigh.

A Twitter thread of historically significant animated movies, all extremely hard to find physically in the US and UK and/or in desperate need of restoration. (The original post being in response to there being a Criterion Collection edition announces for WALL-E.)

AG57 is a digitization of H. Bertholds’s 1898 typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk made freely available as a cultural artefact. More in the linked article (in German, which alas! I cannot read).

Braggoscope, an unofficial index of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time, in which Melvyn Bragg interviews three subject experts on an amazing range of topics. Organized by Dewey Decimal category and guests.

A breezy lecture on the chaotic formation, merging and splitting of colleges that has lead to Oxford's chaotic urban architecture, in the form of a Twitter thread.

‘Oxford is an architectural disaster because the colleges keep cannibalising each other. The University has, over a millennium, had a couple hundred colleges and halls. There are now 45.’

Qlavier has created a 3 × 13 macropad, like a extremely maximalist combined numeric keypad and nav cluster.

If for some reason you want to replace HTML’s default ‘select’ element with a web component of your own, it is way more complicated than you might think. This article outlines some of the complications that will need to be addressed in your quixotic mission to reimplement the unimplementable.

A BBC Radio 3 adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles for orchestra and half a dozen actors, led by Mark Gatiss and Sanjeev Bhaskar as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

The Street Design Manual of Oslo, translated into English (PDF). As well as trying to make their city more navigable on foot, by cycle and by wheelchair, it has a lot to say about trees, snow storage, and stormwater management.

Of interest to active-travel promoters in English-speaking countries.