Happy Saturday, Happy Pre-May the 4th, and happy "I don't have to beg for a job anymore". Yep, I've got a job. I'm going to be announcing where and what later this month when I start, but, finally, I can stop the hunt. Oh, and the crippling fear and despair being gone is an added bonus. So, happy day! Let's get to the links.

Tubes, tubes, tubes

Last week I started off with a post from Todd Sharp so why not do it again? Todd wrote up his experience using Momento Topics API and Nixie Tubes. Nixie Tubs are beautiful steam punk looking tubes that can be connected to hardware and then changed programmatically. I did a bit of hardware hacking last year but the project Todd describes here is way beyond my skill set.

Handling Light and Dark Mode for Images

While this post mentions both Markdown and GitHub in the title, the guide is actually a great HTML tip that shows you how easy it is to have your images support light and dark mode. Given that you have two images appropriate for each mode, you can use a small bit of HTML to serve up the right one automatically while falling back to a default. This tip is from Cassidy Williams and her excellent newsletter.

Tracking Web Analytics with Val Town

Last up is a good article by Orestis Papadopoulos on using Val Town to track web analytics. I used Val Town in an earlier post to stand up a simple API and it's a service I've been meaning to dig more into for like a year now. Orestis' article is a great example of why the service is so cool.

Just For Fun

Did I mention I got a job? I did? Well, I got a job. Which means (at least for now and completely ignoring everything going on in the country) ...