Post #1725685
2026-04-26 19:42 UTC
Cursed idea: “time to read” measurement from the number of paragraphs using CSS counters? No JS nor manual management required.
#theWorkshop
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@aartaka@merveilles.town 2026-04-26 21:04
To make a “time to read” counter for my site (without JS!) • I have to know how much my content actually takes to read. • To know that, I should analyze my posts. • To do that, I have to parse them (with ed(1), of course!) • To parse them, I have to rely on landmark tags. • And to rely on these, I have to fix previous syntaxes I used for paragraphs, to use never HTML format. • 300+ entries for old format across the blog. I guess I’m not doing “time to read” now, focusing on blog refactoring instead 🤦 #theVent
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@aartaka@merveilles.town 2026-04-26 22:36
Okay, two significant obstacles: • CSS counters only increase by integer values • There’s no way to make calculations on counters with calc() No idea how to proceed.