Intros are hard

Infinite Jest is my white whale. I've tried to read it so many times but I always get stuck. I don't know what it is, loving the book on principle but being humbled by its reality. Relevant to us, though, is it's huge number of footnotes. It's a key feature of the book, where the content of the footnotes sometimes take us the audience on a journey far away from the context of the page that it is pretending to help explain. Indeed, some of the footnotes have their own footnotes…

I just added in the ability to render videos in my blog, and in so doing came across a question I hadn't considered before: how do I reserve space for a video that loads after the page does? Also, are videos loaded after page load, or what's the deal there?

Turns out: yes! You can reserve space for a video. In my case…