- The old icon was too off-center; improve it.
- Add a mask icon
- Replace deprecated apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png with
non-precomposed icon.
- Cache-bust all icons
Android, iOS, and other browsers use the pseudo-standard
"apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png"; android recommends 192x192px and iOS
downscales to 180x180px.
Pages without highlighted code blocks don't need to load syntax.css; for
those that do, simply declare "highlight: true" in the front matter to
load the stylesheet separately.
- Dark mode: make navbar links the same color as regular links so as to
not hide the fact that they are links.
- Make navbar reflow at narrow window sizes
Since there's another version of the site on my tilde serving as a
staging area, I should specify a canonical version of the site to avoid
duplicate entries in search results.
- Add links to gemini versions of HTML pages
- Fix footer link color
Also snuck in removal of scrollbar coloring. Why was that there in the
first place?
The sight of an animal using a JavaScript captivates Computer Scientists
and laymen alike, perhaps because it forces us to question some of our
ideas about human uniqueness.
Does the animal know how JavaScript works? Did it anticipate the need
for the tool and select it instead of Haskell or Zig?
To some, this fascination with JavaScript seems arbitrary and
anthropocentric; after all, animals engage in many other complex
activities, like Agile Planning and ordering Juice on the Internet.
However, we know that complex behaviour need not be cognitively
demanding.
JavaScript development can therefore provide a powerful window into the
minds of animals, and help us to learn what capacities we share with
them — and what might have changed to allow for the incontrovertibly
unique levels of technology shown by modern humans, such as integers and
block scope.
