Dezine Zync

RPC Pings for Micro.blog

A couple of weeks ago, I asked @manton if he had any plans of adding WebSub support on Micro.blog. While he is interested, I wanted to get a jump-start for my app Elytra.

These Two Seemingly

These two seemingly uninteresting photos hold great significance for me. These are shot at sunset and the much softer sunset light signifies the starting of winter in my hometown. My favorite month is finally here.

The United States

The United States has a strange relationship with food.

The First Time

The first time I implemented Sign In with Apple, it took me roughly half a day to get it working.

Gorgeous Sunset Last

Gorgeous sunset last evening.

I Was Watching

I was watching The Man from Earth last night on Amazon Prime. Before the credits rolled, they showed the trailer for its sequel: Holocene. Seems like I have some proper viewing material for this week. 2 episodes of Titans Season 2, Modern Family. Going to be a fun autumn.

Love The Colours

Love the colours from the iPhone X. No reason to update to the 11 Pro yet. 😅

Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 E-Mount

I got a new lens, the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 E-Mount. Some shots from less than half a day of using.

Dark Mode Images

I recently published the update website for Elytra. Something I wanted to try was to seamlessly support both Dark and Light mode images using the simplest code snippet. 

This is what I ended up with:

The key thing to note for this to work, the source with the prefers-color-scheme:dark media query must appear first in the list. If you add it anywhere else, it does not work.

I use ES6Views to render all these pages so I can have a function that returns the above struct and all I have to pass it are 3 arguments: The URL, width and alt-text.

10 years later...

I recently posted a Twitter Thread about completing 10 years working professionally, making websites, iOS & iPadOS apps. 

During those 10 years, I learnt a lot. My entire career’s catalyst has been and will continue to be blogs by some wonderful folks. 

Keeping with cycle of reading and writing, I’ve decided to dedicate some time (at-least a couple of times a week to begin with) to writing on my blog. This blog. So hello there, it’s nice to meet you.