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This is the 83rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Maya and her blog, maya.land

I had been horribly ignoring Manuel’s kind invitation for a very long time so when Ethan Marcotte tagged me into a different blog challenge it fired up enough energy for me to… not do the different blog challenge but to respond to Manuel. But! In recognition of how they sort of overlap, I thought I would here just note a couple of the bits that P&B didn’t get.

Have you blogged on other platforms before?

I never “blogged” much on Tumblr, really, but my time there was truly formative in ways that I do not feel I will ever be able to get people to understand.

What’s your favorite post on your blog?

servers, sewers, alienation. This one comes from an overlap of personal and professional experiences and values that I have and that not that many people have had. (Trowel-scale and hyper-scale and salmon scales!) Furthermore it transcludes multimedia and spirals around its theses and… even if someone else were trying to say the same thing, they wouldn’t have said it the same way, you know?

Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign[…]?

I am trying so hard and my vision is being foiled by browser limitations at every turn

I am going to have to give up and do something very basic with just progressive enhancement

Ugh

maya.land

31 Mar 2025 at 08:00

beautiful recreation of argent, that elegant old mac font

Argent Pixel CF is a playful bitmap version of the original dashing Argent typeface. With a pronounced x-height, this unexpectedly readable serif recreates the original font’s distinctive look in a style evocative of early Macintosh typography.

omg… I’ve been talking a big game about moving away from pixelly aesthetics but you know I am twitching avoiding buying this.

via Jillian

maya.land

29 Mar 2025 at 07:00

here are some good CSS patterns and opinions I have about them

These are lightweight and easy to use (well-made in their use of CSS variables, too). Let me further pitch you on why you should take them seriously:

psalter of robert of lisle

facundus, in the national library in madrid

mahiet

You see, it is now the belief that pattern is loud and noisy and to be restrained by large solid fields of color… but this has not been a design universal. Place your cut out photos above a background of contrasting interlaced squares! Abut a vermilion red with ultramarine! We live so briefly before we die!!

maya.land

27 Mar 2025 at 07:00