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Suit wears the man

On clothing, costume, and inhibition.

Jul 3, 2026 02:47 PM

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   Fun things can happen when you name your stylesheet interim.css. It didn’t take me long to tire of pure black and white, and I’ve always wanted to use eggplant as a dark mode background color. I used the Meyerweb Color Blender tool to mix a little lavender into a “French porcelain” white color and then create some color steps between the lightest and darkest background/text colors. I’m using some brighter candy shades for hover effects.

   The screenshot above is from Equinox, a handy tool that lets you view light mode and dark mode at the same time.

   Jul 8, 2026 02:27 PM

2. I enjoyed Rob Weychert’s writeup on building his listening diary, from Last.fm data going back to 2005.

   I’m glad to have it. Some entries are documents of how I self-soothed during a challenging time. Many make space for artists I kept coming back to who didn’t previously have a presence on the site, often because I streamed their music without writing about them or buying any of their records or seeing them live. Hopefully going back through the listening diary will help me start to rectify that.

   Jul 6, 2026 01:13 PM

3. Bookmarked Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries by Una Kravets.

   I’ve been playing with a combination of new CSS features that, together, form a really nice dynamic theming system. This technique creates themed components with shadows in light mode that swap out to glowing borders in dark mode, and text that’s always readable against its dynamic background color. All in CSS. Available in all modern browsers as of May 2026 🥳.

   Jul 5, 2026 08:46 PM

4. Bookmarked Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix by Sophie Koonin.

   This is so freakin’ cool! Creative programming with the Temporal API and color-mix CSS function.

   Jul 5, 2026 08:39 PM

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