Some strange tunes to be found at: https://soundcloud.com/asaaki

If you love long tracks, listen to https://soundcloud.com/asaaki/plane-of-the-frost-demons

And lately experimented with short audio-visual stuff: https://youtu.be/UBsz7vgTvjY

The "Idiosyncratic rater bias" is a bit confusing to me, since it starts already with Bob being an EM, and to counter it is suggested to write from the manager's perspective. So what are managers supposed to do when they are falling for this bias like Bob did? Was either the example or the solution different initially? Maybe it's just the phrasing. (Hey, EM-Bob, try to write like a manager … — Erm, I am one. Duh.)

That's interesting. I'll have Mac access only next month. The setting `max-width: 100%` actually breaks the design completely, chopping it down to a half.

I have to try this solution[1] to see if that helps to avoid the scrolling.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/56382662/653173

I think I should just remove the poster, it was initially replacing the GIF, which was megabytes in size. Given that the sizes of the WebP and WebM animations are pretty close I can live without it; all major browsers support both formats anyway.

I cannot help with the caching fun here, quick tested in both Chrome and Firefox. There's probably something strange in the video tag, either by design or by implementation.

Perl … haven't seen that old friend for a very long time.

I should be clear this was about 15 years ago.

Also zola, hugo, and other pretty light weight generators are quite okay. I'm using zola which runs nicely on Win/Mac/Linux. All you need to get started is some theme/template and your blog posts in Markdown. Then enrich it with whatever floats your boat.

Thank you for the tip/link. Seems to be an appropriate solution, just have to fiddle with my build process for a bit.

I decided to have no (client side) tracking at all, for both usually it requires JS and cookies. And honestly I don't like to have both on my site if not strictly necessary (as a European citizen I'm also quite aware of all the shenanigans one has to do wrt privacy and consent).

Thank you for the detailed response. Interesting links I will work through over time.

Thanks.

If you're okay with a non-node/js solution, use https://github.com/kornelski/cavif-rs - it does the job for me pretty well.

For node it looks surprisingly disappointing right now, the only real candidates being the packages @saschazar/wasm-avif (v1.0.0) and avif (v0.0.1-alpha2) — I'll probably never understand the ecosystem and community, the format is out for some time and fully supported in the most widely used browser, yet barely noticeable support in the JS world.

Thanks for the tips - I'm tied to node at the moment - wasm-avif has serious issues with thready safety an memleaks :( tried it.

Sharp lib is veeeerrryyy close to AVIF support: https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/2289 (you can compile a version to use for yourself, it's just not production stable yet).

If you're in control of the environment, you might want to consider the yak shaving road and build a node package with a C, C++ or Rust library then. ;-)