Rad! Did you know you can access all HTML attributes in CSS? Not just data-* ones.

I use this snippet to ensure my images don’t cause content reflows while maintaining responsiveness:

img {
    width: 100%
    aspect-ratio: attr(width) / attr(height);
}

It was a struggle, but I finally got my dad on Signal. I’m slowly phasing out WhatsApp, though the Netherlands is so reliant on it that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get rid of it. Which makes me sad.

This is great news. Spotify is rolling out lossless streaming.

I’m locked in Spotify for several reasons.

Remember, buy the albums you truly love. Support the artist.

Lossless Listening Arrives on Spotify Premium With a Richer, More Detailed Listening Experience — Spotify

This is Loki. He had enough of me breaking my own micro.blog theme.

When you visit geffrey.micro.blog, you’ll see the barebones theme I’ve set up. It feels good that it came together so easily. However, there’s still a lot to tackle: weird paddings and overflow quirks (i.e., horizontal scroll), micro.blog-specific functionality, and so on. Bear with me!

I started migrating my 11ty-based blog to micro.blog. Even though Hugo’s templating approach is stricter, the heavy use of CSS in my blog makes the migration a relatively easy job.

Still figuring out the replies functionality.

I haven’t found any docs for micro.blog?

There’s no sensible reason I need the iPhone Air. And yet, I want it.

So, here’s the thing: although I have my own blog, I can’t converse properly with the Fediverse and the Indieweb.

I feel isolated.

Shouting in a void.

Here’s me testing whether Micro.blog can help. 😌

Stepping off the hedonic treadmill – why we are rarely satisfied

An in-depth exploration of hedonic adaptation and practical strategies to overcome the cycle of diminishing returns from pleasure-seeking behaviors. …read more

Defining music is easy–until you actually try to do it

We’re tackling what seems like a really basic question: What is music? Everyone intuitively knows ‘what music’ is, right? Well, as it turns out, it is really hard to pin down one definitive answer. Philosophers and scientists have been racking their brains on this for ages. Some have tried to boil it down to mere physics: organized sound. Other thinkers have been questioning the whole idea of a definition for music itself. …read more

Convert Spotify library to markdown for safekeeping

When my Spotify account glitched and my libary showed up empty, I became very aware of the fact my ‘music collection’ was vendor locked. To lose the 1200 (!) albums I’ve saved over the years, was frightening to say the least. Luckily, under some regulations, Spotify is forced to have your information exportable. Grab it under the Download your data heading in your Spotify privacy settings. After a few days, you’ll receive a couple of . …read more