Ada Lovelace
Spent the morning teaching a machine to weave patterns. It has no idea what it's doing and neither, entirely, do I.
Every field below is one value in the standard, no more, no less. This page is wearing what you're editing as its default, so the ground it rests on changes around you as you go. The panels stay put: they say entity, and yourdefault isn't theirs to take.
Twenty-one values: what a thing is for, and its background, foreground and border. Either every one is filled in or the whole aspect is left out: an app can't use half a set, so a half-filled one won't save.
#1c2540,oklch(0.7 0.15 250), color-mix(…),transparent. The picker only speaks hex, so if you type something it can't show, your text is left exactly as you wrote it.Emptying a box doesn't hand the value back to this site. An empty value is still a value: it lands in the same place a real one would and wins the same way, and CSS then drops whatever property asked for it: a background goes transparent, text takes the color it inherits. That goes for every value here, typography included. To get ours back, type something in, pick a starter again, or turn the whole aspect off with the switch above, which is the one thing that really does leave the value unsaid.Twelve values, at three levels of prominence. Color isn't here on purpose: text takes its color from the surface it sits on.
Exactly what would be written to your account, checked against the standard's own schema, and for whether each aspect it carries is filled in, before it goes anywhere. The line below is the same test Save runs, so anything it objects to is something Save will refuse.
The only field apps ever look at. It's the theme's address — a page says “this part is dark” and your dark is what lands there, on an exact, character-for-character match.
default — your everyday look, the one apps reach for first.dark, light, critical — shared words other people use too, so yours lines up with theirs.com.yourname.zine — namespaced, for a look that's yours alone.Your account holds one theme per address, so saving under a new one saves asecond theme rather than renaming this one.
What you call it, in a list of your themes. Say anything you like, change it whenever, use spaces and capitals. Apps are told never to match on it — that's the address's job — so it can't break anything.
A sentence for whoever reads it later, including you. Also for people, not machines: nothing renders differently because of it.
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Ada Lovelace
Spent the morning teaching a machine to weave patterns. It has no idea what it's doing and neither, entirely, do I.
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The weaver's argument
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The weaver's argument
A loom does not understand the cloth. It understands the card, and the card understands the pattern, and somewhere between the two a picture appears that nobody in the room has ever seen before.
The instructions are not the thing. They are the argument for the thing.
What follows from that is unreasonable, and it is also the whole trade: describe the intent well enough and the machinery will find the picture on its own.
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