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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a React site, which compiles its CSS on each build, so if you key the block against any of these generated CSS classes, they won't work after a rebuild because they'll probably be reassigned to different elements.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today in CSS: We all know you can change the highlight colour of selected text, but it's impossible to animate that colour. Unless… the colour was just a variable inherited from the parent element, using @property to make it animatable… Hahahahaha…

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did you know that browsers in 2026 still have strict XHTML parsers and error messages for application/xhtml+xml content? (I went and confirmed this with iframes and Blob URLs without needing to make an actual local HTTP server.)

XHTML error messages in Firefox and Chrome

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Epic new idea for protecting your blog posts from LLM training: write them entirely in really-small-font-size ASCII art

ASCII art that reads: I generally prefer to play games in windowed mode, and for pixel art games, I like the pixels to be at a good midpoint of legibility - not so large that dithering and other shading effects become unreadable, but not as small as 1x. Now, old RPG Maker games (earlier than 2020) offer no obvious means of zooming their windows, requiring external tweaking tools be used. Based on my experiences, I've found that

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Watching Mario Maker troll levels

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yeah, you BET I'm hurriedly replaying Deltarune. My new favourite underappreciated character is the secret shopping UI white tiger face.

Close-up of two fancy window borders that form a tiger face by seeming coincidence

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Reading the ImageMagick command line manual

-delay centiseconds display the next image after pausing

-flip flip image in the vertical direction
-flop flop image in the horizontal direction

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Alright, the game's been out long enough, time to post insular nonsense and relatable made-uppery #868-BACK

868-BACK Most Common Dignity-Losing Mistakes Chart
Forgot about rear-mounted laser!
Forgot about polymorphing laser!
Forgot about instant replay!
Forgot about latent virus!
"This time .index will work"
Thought sector 7 was sector 8

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Here are some situations where the CPU (Rookie and Veteran respectively) stopped moving and stalled out the shot clock… seems a little weird.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Mario Maker 2 out of context

How do people afford to gaslight with these rising petroleum prices??

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Baseball's pretty fearsome, but don't forget the amount of gear a cricket batter needs to wear

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Just trace over this one. No one will know. Unless they play Legacy

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If the web platform is standardised then explain THIS

Side-by-sides of Firefox and Chrome showing completely different renders for various border-collapse settings

HTML code showing four tables with different large colourful borders with the border-collapse CSS.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I just learned this word and I already despise it. This word only exists to titillate linguistics majors and make innocent people lose at trivia

beestings(n.)

"colostrum," late Old English bysting, from beost "first milk of a cow after calving," a general West Germanic word (cognates: Old High German biost, German Biest, Middle Dutch and Dutch biest, North Frisian bjast) of unknown origin.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This game is like La Mulana except you only get the tablet scanner 4 hours in, and the ancient history revealed by the tablets looks like this

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It's bringing some new and revolutionary obstacle ideas to the Indiana Jones-style deathtrap ruins platformer

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Enticing shop item description

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

At first I felt this was biting Dot Zo Games's "地底へドンドン" a bit hard, due to borrowing the bomb and its "secret" bomb jump closely – but they've thoughtfully extended it with more capabilities. For instance, the bomb jump enables the even more secret technique of… running.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

store.steampowered.com/app/3382070/… – Playing "Queen of Treasure Isle". I wasn't sure what precisely the reviewers meant by "amazing pixel art", but it turns out it means it's stuffed full of pictorial descriptions like these:

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

github.com/game-icons/icons - Looking at these "open source game icons".

Screenshot of monochrome game menu icons with eclectic additions such as "clown"

Screenshot of Goblet Grotto's "understanding glyphs" page

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Post a game that no one else remembers

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I used to think it was a bit strange for the caves in Donkey Kong Country to be palette-swapped into such divergent colours as brown, puce, purple and green, but now I'm realising that it's representative of tourist attraction lighting (source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yi...)

Cave lit up with purple, red and green lights; a small figure provides scale for the size of the complex

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Titanium Court is definitely getting gassed-up to the stars and back, but the mass coyness toward describing its terrain-placement puzzle mechanics is giving me some pretty high expectations. It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).

Screenshot of Titanium Court showing trees, water, hills and castles in a grid.

Screenshot of Otostaz showing trees, water and houses, and a sun man placing down water and trees.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Somewhat dismayed to report that Twitter aka X has now changed the "Following" tab into "Following 🞃", which requires an additional click to actually get chronological sort. I sure wonder how long this is going to stick.

Following tab with dropdown menu labeled "Sort by" and items "Popular" and "Recent"

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Not only am I unable to identify the existence of Renee Blot, but the 2011 article cited for Wikipedia's paragraph (archive.is/0Xs5U) openly contradicts that claim. (FWIW I actually find the reply more credible than a long-after-the-fact claim by Hefner himself…)

From the start, the togs—or lack thereof—were a hit with red-blooded lounge lizards. But Mr. Hefner, ever the perfectionist, wasn't quite satisfied.
"I looked at it and thought there was something missing," he said. "So after the opening, I added the cuffs, collar and bow tie. It added class. Instead of it looking like a curiosity, it looked upscale. One of the Bunnies said it was as if someone had ripped the shirt off the girl."

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Tried to look up who came up with - specifically - the idea for giving the Playboy bunny costume sleeve-cuffs attached to nothing. Wikipedia says it was added in 1962 by Renee Blot, but the only other source I could find for this is a 2017 blogspot reply. web.archive.org/web/20180305...

Later, in 1962, French fashion designer Renee Blot was further employed to refine the design, and her revisions included making the ears smaller, adding a collar with bow tie and cuffs with rabbit-head cufflinks, and a satin rosette with the bunny's name, worn on the hip. The original costumes were made in twelve colours of rayon satin. Several years later, Playboy engaged a prominent manufacturer of lingerie and swimwear to create a modified bunny costume that used washable stretch knit fabrics, allowing for costumes in vibrant prints as well as solid colors. The standard stockings also evolved from fishnet material to a special sheer pantyhose style supplied by Danskin. Bunnies wore two pairs of these sheer stockings, a black pair worn on top of a taupe toned pair.

Thank you for this excellent history of the iconic Playboy Bunny costume. To fill in a few details:

French fashion designer Renee Blot designed the 1961 modification that added collar, cuffs and nametag rosette.

The original rayon satin costumes were manufactured by the Kabo Corset Company.

In the UK, croupiers in Playboy Club casinos originally wore standard Bunny costumes, but gaming regulators soon required modifications for costumes worns by Bunnies operating gaming tables. At first, croupier Bunnies wore “modesty bibs”, and later wore a more extensively modified costume. This photo of London Bunnies on a rooftop shows both the traditional costume, worn by Bunnies in the Club’s bars, showrooms and restaurants, and the modified costume worn by croupier Bunnies at the gaming tables in the casino areas.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Why is this one of the Archive Dot Org frontpage's "top collections"

Category simply called "Hentai" with a cute cartoon octopus as the icon.

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This logo font has a lot to say about the world we live in

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Was casually reading the announcement for Python 3.15 when I stumble on this line. I don't use the language too frequently, but it's nice to know all those times I was compulsively splashing encoding="utf8" everywhere were actually freaking required until now.

PEP 686: Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Me again. I got OOB here and here, and in this case the ores weren't cashed in after reaching the locked door (vers. 43)

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Leon ._. @leonarnott.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Huge Servo milestone: thanks to a swift response to a bug I reported, the Servo browser (servo.org) can now play Deltarune Dot Com's 404 page correctly.

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