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Pure CSS Landscape – An Evening in Southwold

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Re: Pure CSS Landscape – An Evening in Southwold

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a stage of investment in some specific skill mindset that results in being able to produce things that seem to be absurd or impossible or “I could never do that”. There aren’t many real-life opportunities to productively exercise that degree of skill in obvious ways; if you cut down a tree perfectly, few will truly notice how perfect the stump is, even if they may appreciate the result unthinkingly. So crafti…

Cut down a tree perfectly, and you maximise the yield of lumber you get from it. I think that is somewhat obvious. But I'm being pedantic, you make a good point.

Perfection in lumberwork isn't just about yield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NRmYzLrvfM

Re: Pure CSS Landscape – An Evening in Southwold

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post #29

Always strange to see things close to home on HN. I spent New Years in Southwold, a lovely place to visit on the Suffolk coast with the fantastic Adnams Brewery right in the heart of the town.

Also don't forget the wonderful Under The Pier Show[1] It's a set of weird and wonderful custom arcade machines such as the "Rent-a-dog" game and, my favourite, the "Small Hadron Collider". [1] http://underthepier.com/

For those who don't know, these custom arcade machines were made by Tim Hunkin, a mechanical genius who co-created the show "A Secret Life of Machines" in the 80s and 90s. Most of them up are on Youtube, go check them out: [0].

Also, I absolutely love that website, as well as Tim Hunkin's personal website[1]. It has a charm about it that few websites have these days.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLByTa5duIolYRtq45Cz_G...

[1] http://timhunkin.com/control/o_about_the_site.htm. Take a look at the "about the site" page!

Re: Pure CSS Landscape – An Evening in Southwold

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cut down a tree perfectly, and you maximise the yield of lumber you get from it. I think that is somewhat obvious. But I'm being pedantic, you make a good point.

Perfection in lumberwork isn't just about yield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NRmYzLrvfM

Very entertaining! Seeing the position of the buildings, I was certain the video was going to end terribly.

Re: Pure CSS Landscape – An Evening in Southwold

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post #35

Where do the custom HTML tags (sea,beach etc) come from? I do not see any preprocessor in codepen.io settings. I thought that in order to use something like https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html you'd need Javascript.

They are rendered as HTMLUnknownElement and just don’t have any behavior or style as default, you can still refer to the tags in your css

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLUnknown...

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