For fun - a blog nutrition label

17 Jun, 2025

I had a silly idea.

A whisper from the void, a chittering in the ducts of my over-caffeinated skull.

Apple, bless their glossy black monoliths, is introducing Accessibility Nutritional Labels — an initiative where developers now don ceremonial robes and declare, “Yes, our apps respect your access needs.” As an accessibility gremlin who lives in the gutters between semantic HTML and divine compliance, I rejoice.

But then a darker whisper. A question.
What would that look like for my wild scratchings?

A label. A reckoning. Perhaps something... like this?

A sacred text carved in tags. A runestone for the modern age.

Bear lets you create post templates. I’ve embedded this strange nutrition label into mine — a sigil at the top of each entry, a glimpse into the soul of the post before it latches onto yours.

Would... would you like one, Oh Reading Eye?

HTML

<div class="nutrition-widget" id="nutritionWidget">
  <div class="nutrition-content" id="nutritionContent">
    <h3>Post Nutrition Label</h3>
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Read Time:</strong> 5 min</li>
      <li><strong>Topics:</strong> CSS, Silly Things</li>
      <li><strong>Tone:</strong> Straight-forward</li>
      <li><strong>Mood:</strong> Sleepy</li>
      <li><strong>Sensitive:</strong> Nah </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

CSS

.nutrition-content {
  display: block;
  margin-top: 0.5em;
  background-color: var(--background-color);
  color: var(--font-color);
  border: 2px solid #aaa;
  border-radius: 6px;
  padding: 1em;
  width: 350px;
  box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
  font-size: 0.85em;
}

.nutrition-content h3 {
  margin-top: 0;
  font-size: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding-bottom: 0.25em;
}

.nutrition-content ul {
  list-style: none;
  padding-left: 0;
  margin: 0;
}

.nutrition-content li {
  margin-bottom: 0.5em;
  border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 2555, 255, .2);
}

.nutrition-content strong {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 80px;
  font-weight: 600;
}

It’s easy to tweak — which is either a blessing or a trap.

Will I use it forever? Unknowable. Time is a flat circle and I am easily distracted. But is it fun? Absolutely. It’s joy disguised as infrastructure.

Over-engineered? Friend, it is the most sacred of my coping mechanisms.

Because if you’re not optimizing for joy — even a smidge, even a half-pixel of absurd pleasure — what are you even doing in this monstrous, blinking HTML universe?

#CSS #HTML #fun ideas