Happy "Three Days Before My Birthday Day"! Oh - yeah, and happy Easter too, but I'm personally a bit more excited about turning 53 as I've decided that's when I'm going to grow up and act like a mature adult. Probably. Maybe. We'll see. Now, if you, my lovely and incredibly intelligent reader, are feeling generous and you've gotten some good knowledge (or entertainment) from this blog, I'll use today's Links For You post to remind you of my Amazon Wishlist. Or even cheaper, leave me a comment below saying HBD - that's just as good. ;)

Everything old is new again...

First up is a blog post on an old topic but one that's still pretty useful - bookmarklets. "A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets" (by Declan Childlow) introduces and explains bookmarklets and gives some good examples of how to use them. Be sure to check the comments to for more examples.

contrast-color() - more CSS Awesomness

I've said this (probably too often), but it's been incredibly gratifying to see how far CSS is advancing. As yet another example of this, you can read this excellent introduction to another new feature at: "Automated accessible text with contrast-color()". This lets you pass a color and get either black or white as a value that can be used to contrast properly against the original. This is not yet available but will launch in Chrome 147 (as of today, 146 is the released version).

Can your game be programmed?

I love this. I mean, I really love this. So apparently there's a city-sim game (a genre I've long liked myself) where you manage a beaver colony - Timberborn. As part of the game's most recent updates, they added the ability to perform automations via HTTP calls. This exposes an endpoint that can be called by external clients to perform actions in the game. So of course someone took this and did something completely ridiculous - build a basic database.

Just For Fun

Ok, I'll leave you with another music video, and once again I've got Brian Rinaldi to thank. This is another new band for me, "Golden Cats" - enjoy!