@msharp

| @sharpy.bsky.social | @msharp@mastodon.social | Cornish Australian. Former Web dabbler. Tweets mostly about DIY, Dad jokes, avgeek,🐝, 🌶, 🔋🚗💨 and Lego.

 Sydney
Joined June 2008
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They do scrum mostly.
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🦋 – at Kiama, New South Wales
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Mum and calf 🐋 doing some serious acrobatics just off the coast in Kiama right now 🙂 @KiamaBlowhole – at Kiama, New South Wales
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Hey @endeavourenergy this pole has been struck by lightning twice in a two month period (this damage done in February). When you repair it, can you fit it with a lightning rod to mitigate damage to nearby properties? – at Kiama, New South Wales
A power pole. The top has been blown apart by a lightning strike.

ALT A power pole. The top has been blown apart by a lightning strike.

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Watching for some positive waves #DonaldSutherland – at Kiama, New South Wales
Photo of the opening credits of Kelly’s Heroes.

ALT Photo of the opening credits of Kelly’s Heroes.

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For anyone keen to keep up with the Count Binfaces, I've spruced up my 'website', at countbinface.com, with links to lots of my latest bits and bobs. Huge thanks to the brilliant @malarkey at stuffandnonsense.co.uk for the wizardry. (My starship still runs on WAP.)

Count Binface

countbinface.com
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In these tumultuous times we should all take a moment to shake our maracas and celebrate #BezEarCurveDay 2024. 🪇 – at Kiama, New South Wales
Bez from the band Happy Mondays, he has a badly drawn vector line on his ear.

ALT Bez from the band Happy Mondays, he has a badly drawn vector line on his ear.

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Every office/startup in the 90’s and 00’s had one of these… – at New South Wales, Australia
A pc tower case with “DO NOT TURN OFF” written on it

ALT A pc tower case with “DO NOT TURN OFF” written on it

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Little timeline cleanse with a lovely sunrise 🌅 today. – at Wollongong, New South Wales
The sun, rising over the ocean. There are tree silhouettes in the foreground.

ALT The sun, rising over the ocean. There are tree silhouettes in the foreground.

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The Illawarra region welcomes a new addition to its educational landscape. buff.ly/49GcaEV
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Any meteorite experts out there? Could this be one? @ProfBrianCox @TamithaSkov – at Kiama, New South Wales
D&G Assist@DG_Assist3 Apr 2024
Whilst out in Germany, one of our multi-car transporters has had a rock thrown through the rear screen. Fortunately no injury, but could have been a lot worse. Please, if you're going to have children, educate them not to be like this.
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New Website: TextEffects.dev First post featured: Creating Gold Text with CSS Post: texteffects.dev/posts/gold-t… Just the Effect: texteffects.dev/goldtext Video Tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=ZbiBmpPZ… (Can't change the youtube channel url for 14 days so i'm stuck for now 😅)
Gold looking metallic text with the word "gold"

ALT Gold looking metallic text with the word "gold"

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Someone used my email to sign up for @webuyanycar in the U.K. and they have a terrible (or lovely if you’re in their marketing department) dark pattern in the language on their unsubscribe page. I’m really not sure what lists (if any) my email has been taken off 😒 – at New South Wales, Australia
Screen grab of the page you land on after hitting unsubscribe in an email. There is a paragraph that reads “Uncheck the box if you'd prefer not to receive communications, then select the 'update preferences' button.” Directly above a box that says “Subscription preferences successfully updated. Changes can take up to 48 hours.” There is then a checkbox with the label ‘Unsubscribe’ that is not checked and an ‘Update Preferences’ button.

ALT Screen grab of the page you land on after hitting unsubscribe in an email. There is a paragraph that reads “Uncheck the box if you'd prefer not to receive communications, then select the 'update preferences' button.” Directly above a box that says “Subscription preferences successfully updated. Changes can take up to 48 hours.” There is then a checkbox with the label ‘Unsubscribe’ that is not checked and an ‘Update Preferences’ button.

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Preparing for my @NDC_Conferences talk in Sydney next week. I’m getting nervous but I’m also excited to help people improve their accessibility and performance just with HTML 💪 Hope you’ll join me for some easy wins! ✨
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The font-variant-numeric CSS property allows us to control alternate glyphs for things like numbers, fractions, and ordinal markers. I wrote up a post running through some examples of the options and how you can use them. textlab.dev/posts/font-varia…

Using Font Variant Numeric

The font-variant-numeric CSS property allows us to control alternate glyphs for numbers, fractions, and ordinal markers.

textlab.dev
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The A350 wingtip is just beautiful 😍 – at Greenwich, London
The wingtip of an airliner.

ALT The wingtip of an airliner.

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Someone help me pick a good variable font for display text. Bonus points if it has alternates and/or ligatures. Keen for something a bit funky. Also not too expensive for the web license pls! I've spent way too long trying to pick one there are too many good ones.
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Finally made it to @GreenGoddessPub for tasty treats to battle jet-lag. It’s rather nice here. – at Greenwich, London
Two yummy craft beers. 🍻

ALT Two yummy craft beers. 🍻

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I've relaunched variablefonts.dev where I share my love and experiments with variable fonts. It's a mix of demos, articles, lists of fonts and the occasional special font and/or foundry spotlight. If you want to see or know something specific feel free to reach out to me.
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I’m building a floor… – at Kiama, New South Wales
Some steel joists and wailing beams.

ALT Some steel joists and wailing beams.

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