Creating Labarum (Part 6): A Splash of Color mandarismoore.com

@mandaris Nice

@Archimage thank you. I was starting to feel like no one saw these.

@mandaris “Just because you think you are ignored doesn’t mean you don’t have an impact.” ;)

@Archimage @mandaris Influence is a strange attractor ☘︎꩜❦❉

@bkryer Influence is not impact.

@bkryer And yes, I got the pun. ;

@Archimage Isn’t it though? If I suggest something and this something plays a role in someone else taking this or that action, well, that’s the impact.

@bkryer No. Influence is gentle/subtle. Impact is greater/more violent. Definitions matter.

@Archimage Huh. I don’t read it that way. Either it has an impact, subtle, overt, whatevs, or it does not have an impact. Influence is one way to have an impact on something. Another is force. Another is reason. Another is chance.

The degrees of each and all can be split as you care to.

@Archimage Or are we getting ourselves into trouble here with the tendency to turn verbs into nouns nouns into verbs?

[ edit, wait—take that, reverse it ]

@bkryer If you don’t trust a definition, what do you trust?

@Archimage I trust it as far as I can throw it—er, know it. 🧐꩜

@Archimage I guess I want 'impact' to be more noun-y, while today’s speaker hears it more verb-y. Uncontrollable phenomena are often vexing in this way.

@bkryer That’s a personal problem.

@Archimage As are all of them, really.

I just get the feeling you have put definitions in the domain of the sacrosanct, which I think is a mistake: consider, who writes them...?

@bkryer @Archimage ...a mistake because it leads to the kind of ridiculous thinking that says, if only everyone would use the right words at the right times we wouldn’t have any of these problems.

@Archimage and (missed this before) what was the pun?

@Archimage I detect hostility. I think I can see a pun, and take a joke. I didn’t see the pun. It’s a genuine question.

@bkryer Hostility implies emotion. I have none. It’s not my job.

@Archimage Dude, you started this whole tangential thread by telling me, uninvited, that 'influence' is not 'impact'. Something prompted you to take that action. If not emotion, which I understand can be messy, than something else...maybe an idea you would be willing to share? Some string of thoughts leading us from whence to okay I get it now?

Or is the game to simply exhaust me?

@bkryer You replied to me and my post, saying “Influence is a strange atttractor.” I responded influence is not impact. Your reply thread not mine. In any event, I apologize. Have a good day.

@Archimage I include all frequently in replies out of courtesy, but in this case also because I was agreeing with you. People tend to underestimate the influence they can have, and the impact that influence can have. I mean, jeez, a large portion of this country’s representation is being led around by relatively small nose rings and jack boots. Influence with impact.

[ edit: clarity (ha!) ]

@mandaris This is quite tidy. I like the mechanicals as well as the mood (colors, fonts, etc).

@mandaris I really like the neat lines and the colours. It's interesting to see what you've settled on. Thank you for sharing.

@mandaris 👏🏻Really great job with the theme. The colors are really nice and all the pieces benefit from all the consideration you’ve given them.

@bkryer thank you! I was trying to make it so that one could focus on the content.

@gregmoore thank you! It means a lot coming from you. To be honest, when I saw your design, I felt like giving up because I thought yours was a better execution of what I wanted. But I kept with it for the sense of completion.

@mandaris ❤︎ I think you’ve succeeded. It reads very clean without extra fuss but the page components are clear, plus the other attention to details of importance, intl. date/time for example, shows a careful crafting. And it’s snappy. Nice.

@mandaris very nice theme and interesting posts.

@mandaris I appreciate the compliment ☺️ I’m figuring it out as I go along and standing on the shoulders of others. I’m happy to share what I can. (I started with the Nord colors as well before tweaking a few because they work so well.)

@mandaris You’ve worked really hard on this theme, and it shows. Great job, sir!

@pimoore I really look to your example. I was thinking about adding the margin notes 🗒️ that you have for tufte, but I want to have a better understanding my edge cases first.

@mandaris I’m humbled, thanks Mandaris. I still really like margin and side notes, despite them requiring shortcodes to work. That said, I’d love to figure out a different way entirely of doing footnotes using a semantic HTML solution. Unfortunately I just don’t believe there is, hence maybe the best solution being to avoid using them entirely. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@pimoore I've been thinking about whaat you wrote and my own writing as well. I came across this one related to accessible footnotes but I'm afraid that I'd have to learn how to re-write the markdown rendering engine and then figuring out how to integrate it with micro.blog.

@mandaris Without having read the full article yet (merely skimming), this just highlights even more that footnotes on the web are a huge pain point. The number of workarounds to get them displaying and working unobtrusively seems far too great. Truthfully, this makes me want to ditch them altogether. 😂