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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 28/09/2026

Dug up an ancient Svelte component I made years ago. Republished it because we need the web a bit more colourful stephane-vanraes.github.io/svelte-multi...

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Svelte Multitone Images

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 22/09/2026

I like Svelte, I think it is a really great framework to build for the web. But there is one thing I absolutely HATE about it. 😡 And it absolutely ruined my life. 💔 And that is that it makes it impossible to not be frustrated when you are expected to work with something else in a project. 😭

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 21/09/2026

Apparently I will babbling at Svelte Summit, guess I should work on making the pinkest slides ever

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 03/09/2026

Anyone know when more speakers will be announced for Svelte Summit ? Eager to see what is coming

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Svelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · 19/08/2026

Svelte Summit Tickets Going live later today. Are you excited?! WE ARE!

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 10/08/2026

when you don't have anything better to do so you start tinkering with some basic javascript. data generated in one thread and visualized in the other thread based on a shared memory block. no data passed around and no blocking of the main thread

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 06/08/2026

I should try making a svelte themed tote next 🤔

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 03/08/2026

boss person is back, time to suck up to her and get svelte summit paid for 😘

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 28/07/2026

the finished product 🔥 a clear winner I have to say 🙄

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 27/07/2026

an important part of learning something new is accepting you WILL fail at first. #firsttime #stitching #notafraidtofail

image of a really badly executed stitching project

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 23/07/2026

Hey hey! What's up folks? Look who's back on the blog track! (we still publish blogs right?) (got some work to do design wise, any comments welcome 😜) www.arzidava.com/articles/rel...

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New beginnings | Arzidava

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 07/07/2026

fun activiy of the day: browsing through an entire not very well written entangled mess of a python ui codebase tracking every call to the database to see how it is used because why would anyone include a db-scheme in their codebase ?

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 30/06/2026

me at work: I am a very serious developer, approaching all tasks professionally also me at work: please come to my introduction to COBOL 🌸🌸

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 30/06/2026

when you are kind of in between projects and start messaging your line manager: "Shall we circle back over that and have a quick sync in an offline base touch to ensure we have all our ducks in one line" (ready to go to linkedin afterwards)

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 29/06/2026

TIL I might have been working for and invoicing the wrong customer for the past 3 months 🤦

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 26/06/2026

Summer is the perfect time to look out at the rain, remember my name and think about the fun projects I can work on. Planning on restarting my blog, that I abandoned like 3 years ago. And started working on a series of short stories set in Bergen inspired by WoD (might dump then on a blog as well)

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 04/06/2026

Yesterday I visited the Observatory in Belgium, celebrating it's 200th anniversary 🥳 a blast from the past to see the telescope I worked with for years ❤️ and kind of humbled they still use my now 15 year old software to capture and analyze images of the sun 🌞

An outdoors view of the tower and dome housing the telescope.

View of the equatorial table with telescopes

Picture of the telescopes themselves equipped with digital cameras

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 02/06/2026

First stop of the vacation, Belgium 🇧🇪🖤💛❤️🇧🇪

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 02/04/2026

Today I was fondly remembering playing Planetarion (and similar) 20+ years ago and how impressed I was it would update the game for 10s of thousands of players every hour. When it suddenly dawned on me it doesn't actually do all those calculations within a few microseconds when the hour changes

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 18/03/2026

After some struggling managed to get Svelte reactivity working in combination with SharedArrays and Atomics. Not optimal, but who knows, a first article for my blog if I ever get around writing again 😉

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 04/03/2026

github stars (or equivalent marks of liking packages and repos) should expire after a year.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 11/02/2026

My GF is binging "Younger" on Netflix and I have to explain to her so many of the references that she now suspects I am cheating on her with my younger coworkers 🤦‍♂️

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 29/01/2026

Sewing machine workshop tonight, made a small bag for toiletries. Not bad for a first time, will definetely practice more ❤️

a selfmade small bags with a blue starry exterior and orange on the inside

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 21/01/2026

today on my "learn stuff while not assigned to a customer project" agenda is "Vibe Coding". Exciting to see if I will be utterly frustrated at the end of a day, or have a decently working app to track my fitness exercises ?

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 01/12/2025

december means advent of code 🎄 this year, like every year, I will be using a language unknown to me beforehand because suffering is important (I guess) this year that falls on "Julia" ❤️ excited to see how it goes 😄

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 25/11/2025

Having fun exploring workers, svelte (obviously) and some python sprinkled through my browser.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 27/10/2025

TIL gendered reindeer are not called 'reindoe' & 'reinstag' and not sure how I feel about that 😭💔

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Scott Spence @scottspence.dev · 22/08/2025

New job title just dropped on LinkedIn “Vibe code cleanup specialist”

Vibe code cleanups specialist job titles on LinkedIn

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 05/08/2025

Is it just me wiggling my mouse to find the cursor, 100% convinced you see it move somewhere in the bottom, spend another 5 minutes trying to find it, occasionally catching a glimpse of it from the corner of the eye. Just to discover it is not plugged in ?

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 18/07/2025

After 2 years being stuck on a react project, I will start next month back fulltime with #svelte 🎉, we are all still using v3 right ? I don't have anything new to learn 🤔?

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 17/07/2025

Had been struggling with a specific styling issues and @kevinpowell.co recent video on :has made it suddenly click. Using :has(:nth-child(2n):last-child) can be used to detect if a list has even or odd items 🎉

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 21/05/2025

A new consulting challenge on the horizon: "devibing" or the horrifying task of cleaning up a vibe coded startup their mess.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 12/05/2025

using #svelte transitions? consider pure CSS where possible <div in:fly={{ x: -500 }}> Hello World </div> can be achieved with just some "modern css" .div { translate: 0; transition: translate 500ms; @starting-style { translate: -500px; } } smaller bundle and works without js

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 09/05/2025

#sveltesummit was amazing as always, good talks, good mingling. thanks to @kevinak.se for organizing but also everyone attending ❤️❤️

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 07/05/2025

Got to Barcelona 🇪🇸 from Bergen 🇧🇻, now have to wait 4 hours at the airport for my girlfriend who's coming from Reykjavik 🇮🇸 fml 🙄

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 23/04/2025

A quick experiment trying to use pure #css to fully hide an element as soon as it overflows from it's container using view-timeline. Just resize the window a bit to see the effect. Any improvements suggestions ? codepen.io/svanraes/pen...

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hide overflown element with view-timeline

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 05/03/2025

Ready to give a Svelte workshop at work.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 07/02/2025

My Svelte T-Shirt has "shrunk" in the laundry. So I hope we get new ones at the upcoming Svelte Summit

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 03/02/2025

Am I the only one annoyed by this ? Icons that are like not nicely aligned by the text around them 🤢

A login section consisting of a country name, icon and the text "log in". The icon is slightly offset downwards compared to the surrounding text as highlighted with a coloured line in the image.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 29/01/2025

Done: 1) Hear about Svelte Summit 2) Book flight Bergen -> Barcelona -> Bergen from 7th to 10th of May 3) Wait a couple of weeks 4) Girlfriend gets invited to speak at conference in Reykjavik 5th to 7th of May Active: 5) Talk to customer care to see if I can change flights 🤞

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 23/01/2025

Decided to take up snowboarding, what could go wrong?

Picture of a snowboard standing against a railing.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 13/12/2024

We were told 38.5% test coverage is too low. So I wrote about a 150 tests and now it is 39.2% :(

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 09/12/2024

Pissing off my xmas-obsessed girlfriend by simply buying a boardgame for each of my sisters and their families, no individual presents for their kids, nope nope, not from me. Overconsumption and individualism is bad enough as it is.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 04/12/2024

TIL (again) that maths in CSS is messy because unlike the real world it doesn't remove units calc(4ch / 2ch) != 2 😭

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