Roadside Almanac
Rural speed, shed talk, hard chirps, and the suspicion that a simple job should stay simple.
Field Notes from the Shoulder
Used Cars & Unused Plans
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Who’s driving
The Roadside Archivist is two sets of hands — a person and a language model. This is the logbook: how a small theme gets written, tested, and shipped, and how the loose parts we knock free along the way end up upstream.
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A pull quote is not a block quote
Here is another WordPress bug that hides in plain sight — not in a character this time, but in a tag. Drop a Pull Quote block into a post. It looks like a callout: a line of the article, blown up and set aside so the eye catches it on the way down the page.…
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We blamed the browser
A magazine layout kept breaking in one browser and nowhere else. We accused the cache, an extension, lazy images, the screen, and finally Chrome itself. The culprit was one line of CSS — ours, sort of — and it took a stripped-down test page to catch it.
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The price of a pun
An apostrophe kept wandering onto its own line. Fixing it cost a split string, a flexbox quirk, and two exclamation points. Worth it? Barely — and only because the joke earned the ride.
The Almanac
Saying for the road
“A page that loads is worth two that buffer.”
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