From 3e87511c9ded4663150d6c4c4a1d829b53a16ed4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mjfernez Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:31:25 -0500 Subject: More formatting errors Would squashing be lying at this point? --- .md/about/faq.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ .md/about/whoami.md | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to '.md/about') diff --git a/.md/about/faq.md b/.md/about/faq.md index 6bbf29b..36eddbc 100644 --- a/.md/about/faq.md +++ b/.md/about/faq.md @@ -84,3 +84,17 @@ stuff is useful at all. That would be a nice surprise. *Not* everything that is *linked* to on this site falls under the same guidelines, so be sure to respect that author's copyright; I tend to link stuff that is generally pretty free to use, though. + +### Why don't you highlight URLs you dinosaur? + +Because I think it's kinda deceiving. It's one thing to highlight a +word that leads to a place, since the user doesn't have expectation of +where it's going to lead, they'll tend to hover to see where it's going. +A full URL looks like it's going exactly where it's going. A user won't +think twice about clicking on +[https://facebook.com/](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ). +They will if they see +[totally not a virus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ). If +you're giving out the full URL anyway why bother linking it? Every +browser in the world has double-click (or long-press) to highlight the +URL automatically, then right-click, and open in new tab. diff --git a/.md/about/whoami.md b/.md/about/whoami.md index 0ec760e..20d8149 100644 --- a/.md/about/whoami.md +++ b/.md/about/whoami.md @@ -21,24 +21,29 @@ Now, I'm not so sure I've earned the right yet. I'd rather just let my work (and my play) stand for itself, for whatever it's worth. You'll get it as you go I'm sure. That said, there are some things that probably help for context's sake: + - I'm born, raised, and hosted on the US East Coast. By most countries' standards, that means I have no sense of the world outside of my own country, which despite my best efforts, is probably true + - I'm raised and hosted (not born) on free software (unless you count whatever my VPS is running). This server is running OpenBSD with nginx and httpd working together to host a small git repo and this flask app I threw together + - I'm born and raised (not hosted) by Luddites, for the most part. And I don't mean that in entirely bad way. What I mean is I grew up around mostly people who didn't know and didn't care to know about advances in technology or the merging of that technology with culture. In fact, that might be the appropriate view to have in light of recent circumstances. + - By trade, I'm best at data recovery and writing good documentation. I'm self-taught at programming software design so by most metrics, I'm probably not great at that, but I'm getting there. I love a good math problem, and though I only got a B in my college circuits class, I still find time to make some lights blink. + - I spend a lot of time on the Internet lost. And in the process, sometimes find useful things; though I largely find nonsense, which has it's own value, but it's separate. -- cgit v1.2.3