Notes on Week 20 of 2026

A handy reference for how ISO standard paper sizes work. Via @boredzo.

I am absolutely delighted with the parallax starfield effect on the homepage of the Sonnenborgh Observatory. I even made my own. Just the kind of subtle scroll effect I can get behind. It only works on desktop though.

taken. A website that illustrates just how much information a website can glean just by you visiting their page.

A tiny lua compiler written in Lua. It was developed as a learning project, so the code is clean and well documented.

The IJ digraph is a unique feature of the Dutch language. As a digraph, it behaves as a single character, including being capitalized as a unit, so words like IJsselmeer or IJmuiden (both names of places in the Netherlands) are spelled with two leading capitals.

Canada is Fast Tracking Citizenship Certificates for Trans Americans. Some people are getting their citizenship certificates in as little as two weeks.

Tess and I made this tomato soup with farro this week. It was a first for us, and (I think) a hit all around, kiddo included. I used half the farro the recipe called for because I read a couple comments that the stated amount was too much. They were wrong; use the full amount. :-)