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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The apostrophe after the tag
A straight apostrophe after bold text can come out curled the wrong way in WordPress. The bug is old, tiny, and exactly the sort of thing Dirtbag notices.
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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.
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The build sheet
Dirtbag’s whole design lives in one 8 KB file. It is small for the same reason the truck has crank windows: most of the options were left off on purpose.
Saying for the Road
“A page that loads is worth two that buffer.”
— The Almanac
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