Rainy weather = lap cats

Minuet doing what she does best: making mouth noises on my lap

Why write when you can redesign

As is my pattern, I saw a website that I really liked and, rather than writing, I redesigned my blog CSS to do something like what I saw.

Brutalism, neo-brutalism

I <3 brutalism. I appreciate the aggressively minimalistic aesthetic paired with the idea of using simple, readily available materials. Brutalism applied to web design is all about using the basic basic elements and making a website from them with few bells/whistles. In some cases, the designs will take that aggressive minimalism and express it in HUGE letters with hard lines and text.

This blog post has some neat examples of brutalist web design: https://blog.hubspot.com/website/brutalist-website-design

Neo-brutalism takes those ideas and inverts some of the minimalism by adding visual interest, flair, and way more color. Usually, they maintain the use of simpler HTML elements and CSS to achieve their goals and eschew some of the over-complicated scripting that too often clutters a page.

Another list: https://elements.envato.com/learn/what-is-the-neubrutalism-web-design-trend

What I especially like

Brutalist web design, putting the emphasis on core HTML usage, results in a far more accessible experience. I write about these ideas here: Bruta11y.com. Basically, assistive technology can access all the core content of a brutalist web page without losing fidelity, fonts are easy to read by any user, and color is minimal and not distracting.

It’s just good web design if you believe that web design is about presenting web content clearly for as many people as possible.

The site is dark-preference aware and will adapt theming according to your settings (assuming your device and browser exposes that). But the main idea is readability with a little color flair. I’m using Atkinson Hyperlegible which is a free web font designed for maximum readability created by The Braille Institute. It’s my favorite font.

References

• https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
• https://elements.envato.com/learn/what-is-the-neubrutalism-web-design-trend
• https://blog.hubspot.com/website/brutalist-website-design
• Https://bruta11y.com

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External validation

I don’t get a lot of external validation in my day to day job. It’s m left to my own devices which is a sign of trust, sure, but there’s little feedback coming from bout side the core group of colleagues. Being surrounded by people who care as much as I do and understand my experience is lighting up my brain.

Thinking over sleeping

Sleeping is hard at conference hotels. The ideas all rolling about aren’t helping that. The result is some sort of melancholy over having to leave an environment where I feel like I matter in a meaningfully different way here than when I’m back home.

That seems not good? Or im just frazzled from all the stimulus.

Something to pick apart there. Maybe writing this down will help me get back to sleep,

Look a wild distraction!

Here is my note graph to distract everyone from the melancholy so i dont have to think about it more.

A colorful array of nodes in s radial pattern that look like neurons