Part 7: The reader’s right — preferences and light modes
There are a couple of things I’d like to show you this week. One is a relatively small but important step forward for the book project: supporting light modes (with user preference setting). The other is more important to me in this moment.
Self-reflection and education
In the days following George Floyd’s murder, while I listened/amplified/learned from how the Black community responded — donations and retweets only go so far. I read a fair bit, and am continuing to do more. But as a white male who has benefitted from that gender & skin color in work, speaking opportunities, and countless other ways — no matter how well-meaning I might be, I felt a little part of the problem.
I wanted read more of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s writing, and his Letter from Birmingham Jail seemed an important place to start. I went looking, and could only find relatively unformatted PDFs or just plain HTML. So I decided to make the version that I wanted to read. I hope it honors the author and the text even a fraction as much as reading impacts me.
The typesetting is fairly minimalist, but as comprehensive as I could make it. I added some pull-quotes that resonated with me as I read it, but otherwise the text is as I found it in a PDF that I downloaded from the…
