Tiny website enhancement deployed today: profile pictures will no longer squish your face into a funhouse mirror version of yourself.
For years I've told people to upload square profile pictures. For years absolutely nobody (including me) has listened. So if you upload a rectangular image now, the site will keep the correct aspect ratio instead of stretching your head like saltwater taffy. It'll just center the image and crop the edges a bit. Click the picture if you want to see the full version.
This is one of those tiny little fixes that's been sitting on my "someday" list forever. I had a few spare minutes while waiting for a video to compile, so I poked around in the HTML, did a little CSS wizardry, and knocked it out.
I've got about six years worth of these "quick 10-minute fixes" on my to-do list. One at a time. By the time I retire this place is gonna be polished and beautiful... assuming I live long enough to finish the list. lol
Michael Yeah, that's kind of terrifying when you stop and think about the scale of it. The least they could do is run the thing on solar, although you'd probably need a solar farm the size of Rhode Island to power it. Dumping that much CO2 into the atmosphere AND that much waste heat into the environment at the same time definitely isn't great for the planet.
We might not personally live long enough to see the worst effects of stuff like this, but our kids and grandkids absolutely will. That's the part that worries me the most. People act like climate change is some distant sci-fi problem, but we're already seeing the effects now with heat waves, droughts, stronger storms, and shrinking water supplies.
I live in Florida, but I'm a couple miles from the coast, so my property is safe for at least the next 20-30 years, but damn...
And honestly, what I worry most about when it comes to heating up the planet is wildlife. It's the penguins mostly. And I'm being dead serious. As we warm up the planet, they're losing ice shelves, which they require for breeding and feeding, and it's just sad. It's totally sad.
Donald Blackwell
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