Valentin Jacquemin

05 Jan 2026

Code snippets on my blog were sometimes rendered awkwardly, one random line looking bigger.

I use hugo which uses chroma for code highlights. Browsing the open issues quickly revealed that another hugo user was facing this.

I prepared a bug report and submitted it to the webkit bugzilla.

In a short time, I was told that this rendering was due to how text adjusting works, a mobile only feature.

Both MDN and the Apple Documentation describe how to control that adjusting. What I don’t know though, is in what circumstances that algorithm kicks in exactly and why on some code snippet lines that algorithm would render the text bigger and sometimes not.

Anyways, I could quickly fix that on my blog and a coming release of chroma will include a fix too. Here’s my pull request for that.

I don’t think I could mention any CSS property that applies to mobile devices only, that’s the first one I see.

15 Dec 2025

Meet sal a tiny tool I’ve created early this year to fetch my own Strava activities. I’ve used it to daily generate the footer of runboyrun.ch. But I’ll go more into details about that in a coming article.

Github's card of the project sal

12 Oct 2025

TIL: a bash tip I discovered today only, C-x C-e invokes an editor on the current command line.

10 Oct 2025

At 12'37" Zoe Si quotes out of a Skillshare Course some words that made me stop to write them down:

It’s okay to have imperfect work out in the world (but not sloppy!)

– from: Opus Cartooning Presentation

01 Nov 2024

"Don't you miss the days when the web really was the world's greatest decentralized network? Before everything got locked down into a handful of walled gardens? So do we." – https://activitypub.rocks/

27 Oct 2024

"For web developers frustrated with the complexity of modern practice, those looking to brush up on web fundamentals, web development shops looking to bring their apps to mobile, and any programmer looking for an introduction to hypermedia and REST." – https://hypermedia.systems/

27 Oct 2024

"Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks"

10 Jun 2024

About to get a macbook at work, meaning it's finally the time to have a go with https://www.chezmoi.io

09 Jun 2024

RT @unclebobmartin: Bill Anders. Apollo 8. Took the Earth rise photo. RIP brother. https://t.co/ZQTytjoRkg

05 Apr 2024

RT @wiremockorg: 🚀New WireMock JWT extension released - https://bit.ly/3U7ODIN This extension has been in WireMock Cloud for a while and i…