Unsung @ 500: Nine design details

(This is a meta post about this very blog. If that’s not interesting to you, skip to the next one!) 1. Clicking or tapping on Newsletter or About links just above reveals the options in small drawers underneath, hopefully making it easier to engage without having to deal with new page opening, and so on: 2. You can still ⌘-click on those links to open full pages. And the mouse cursor changes to the hand whenever you hold ⌘ to match the difference in behaviour: 3. All the random posts are on a loop, so you can keep clicking to read the entire blog without ever encountering anything twice. (Well, at least if you do it in between post publications, as each new publication recomputes the random chain.) 4. However, if you keep ⌘-clicking on “Random post,” each click will generate a different post, so you can spawn a bunch of tabs to read and then close them all. 5. Even though Warbler (the body font) has old-style numerals, I turned them off so that the site doesn’t feel too old-fashioned,…