The first publication is a Course on Web Engineering for Creators. This doubles as documentation for the Web System. The second publication is a Blog on Web Engineering, primarily for me and secondarily for engineers. This blog is meant to track and aggregate web engineering options. The third, and final, yet may be optional, is a journal where I think things through. If social media count as a publication, I'm using that to exchange feedback.

In light of this, I should rename this subdomain from blog to journal. Or better still, merge it to the main domain – www.toheeb.com.

It would make sense if it doesn't matter what UI design shape you start with. Because you'll be able to transition between triangle, rectangle, star, ellipse, and many more, anytime. A solution is not to have shape tools for each of Rectangle, Line, Arrow, Ellipse, Polygon, and Star. As we have in Figma and other design tools. Rather, we would have only one Polygon tool with a panel of properties for any other shape tool. Count for the number of polygon sides, width and height for regularity, Ratio for side bulge, etc. For UX, there will be a preset for each of the other shape tools. In summary, shape tools like triangle and rectangle are only a preset of a polygon tool, not another shape tool. Besides, this approach is mathematically correct.

That's the design direction I set for the vector tools of the web system I'm creating at www.toheeb.com/en/os#products.

Me? I'm excited about the root x-height, rex. The ascending factor makes it a nice addition to the existing ex unit. It should ease the process of creating vertical rhythm across columns of headlines, paragraphs, and other elements with varying font sizes.

Moreover, this family of vertical font sizing units, ex and rex, is intuitive to setting line heights.

It feels unsemantic to me making line-height relative to, for example, the width of the font's letter "m". Which is what we do setting line-height with the values: 1.6, 1.6em, or 1.6rem.

What feels semantic to me is setting line-height relative to the x-height. Which we can do with a line-height of 3ex or 3rex. Where 3 didn't come from nowhere but equivalent to the 3 rows of a glyph; the ascender height, the x-height, and the descender height.

A line height of 3ex makes a good default for body fonts. Because their ascender and descender heights are usually shorter that the x-height. Making the cumulative negative spaces a good leading. A line-height of 3ex also makes a good basis to account for wider or shorter measure, display or caption fonts, and other possible conditions.

I look forward to experimenting with this on toheeb.com/

I had a draft I could have published the next day. My excuse is being busy on a case study. But, that won't fly because publishing that draft can take less than 10 minutes. Moreover, my busyness didn't stop me from making more drafts on paper afterwards.

I reacted to the perception of conflict of attitude, Classic Attitude as stated in toheeb.com/en/os#principle. Right or wrong, I need find the truth from the book “Clear and simple as the truth”.

I'm building an independent web. Starting with one site, my site. With each site being able to do whatever you can do on third-party sites. I want you to be able to use Twitter from your site, Gmail from your site, Bank or Commerce transactions from your site, and any other thing possible the web can offer.

www.toheeb.com is where that independent web begins. Pending the completion, I'm depending on a lot of services. Including blog.toheeb.com to tell the story. This domain is only a facade of a sub-domain on hashnode.com. These stories are automatically shared to dev.to as drafts and manually shared to Twitter as screenshots. Zohomail powers the email and the list goes on. This is me getting out to get you to get in when it's ready.

My madness is for you and me to own our web respectively. Not them owning us. TO the future of a completely independent web!

Ted Kaczynski, infamously known as the Unabomber ... argued that modern people are depressed because all the world's hard problems have already been solved. ... So Kaczynski's idea was to destroy existing institutions, get rid of all technology and let people start and work on hard problems anew.

- Page 94 and 95 of Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters.

In Unabomber's extreme stance are the opportunities starting afresh brings. Which, the web needs to redefine the web experience and erase the web tech debts.

Yet, unsetting web technologies that power millions of businesses worth trillions of dollars is a no-no. But with Dr Strange's mirror dimension, as a safe space to explore that crazy adventure, it's a yes-yes.

Through toheeb.com/en/journey, I'm starting anew to create an independent web.

I is Dr SU.