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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 · 24/09/2026

React Summit US (around the same dates as svelte) is 1/5 women. But I wonder how much we can blame the smaller ecosystem ?

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 24/09/2026

I was a bit surprised (and sad) about it as well. Picking a random other "specific" conference like React Alicante there are 36 speakers listed and 10 are women. That is roughly 1 out 4, for svelte summit that would have meant 3 female speakers.

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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

🎉congrats, excited to see your talk

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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 · 10/09/2026

What do you mean "double edged sword" ? Frontend is as complex as you want to make it. Using sveltekit you really only need the basics: HTML, JS & CSS plus some svelte/-kit specific stuff for routing and loading that are fairly easy to understand. Any additional things is complexity you brought.

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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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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 01/09/2026

to a computer it's all just cisbits and transbits

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 31/08/2026

What do you do when you have seen less then 10 ?

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 29/08/2026

I remember the days speakers hiked up mountains to make terrible puns about "Svelte Summit" 🙄

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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 · 29/07/2026

last year the "normal" price (so not early bird) was according to my expense notes from last year about 398€

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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 · 28/07/2026

I tried submitting a talk but the window just closed, not sure it did ? The button still says "submit a talk" and no way to see submitted talks to edit them so guess it didn't ?

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

Got a nice present to sign off on when my manager comes back from vacation 😅

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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

The actual worst is when after entering the username it tells you the username does not exist or redirects to a sign-up page. That is actual a massive privacy/security issue.

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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 · 26/06/2026

Real time conversation is a lot harder, there are some apps, but my experience with them was really bad (a couple of years ago)

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

To stay under 50, you can probably use a basic translator like google translate or even a dictionary. Just ask people to write or show the word :)

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

Last time I was in France, public transport was decent, good iconography and very simple to understand words like "TAXI", "BUS". In restaurants I found a lot of waiters are used to extremely broken french and gesturing.

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

For written, I can say that he is better off then you would expect. I could read 80% of romanian by leaning on my french from high school and my girlfriend at the time could do the other way in reverse. Spoken is harder, while some words might 'look' the same they sound very different.

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

A bit confusing how he is going to work there like that :) but nonetheless. There are two major issues to address: spoken and written.

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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 · 12/05/2026

Sometimes I catch myself speaking the local language (my fifth) with a colleague (their fourth) despite both of us being dutch natives 🙄

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 11/05/2026

www.youtube.com/@GinnyDi is my go to D&D content for the moment. She has a general playlist for new players and one with DM essentials. But most important is to remember the "rule of cool", if it would look amazing in a movie just allow for it. just noticed she is here on bluesky: @ginnydi.com

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 13/04/2026

says the person not posting at least one link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_(s...

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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 · 26/03/2026

The worst part is, it doesn't have to be that complicated in React either!!

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 26/03/2026

For now there is still "CodePen Classic" but I am worried it will be removed once this "2.0" comes out. And definitely unsure I will keep using the site if that happens.

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 26/03/2026

Quick question, doesn't this basically mean "If this element has a sibling, and this element is hovered, fade in the sibling" ? In that case why even have the "has", just ":hover &" would also only apply if the sibling exists. 🤔 I might be reading the selector wrong of course 😁

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 19/03/2026

but but `select * from users where user.dob 01-01-2000` is a a lot harder to understand then `prompt("Find all users born after the first of january 2000", { users })` (no joke, I have seen some code that more or less amounted to this)

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 19/03/2026

The has:(:nth-child()) works fine but is quickly cumbersome. On the other hand I cannot really think of any REAL use case that would not be covered by :empty :has(:only-child()) and a couple of :nth-child()ren. Would love to hear more ideas

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

Perhaps if you want to layout children in a grid that is as close as possible to "square" ? In that case you would want to be able to do something like: --columns: round(sqrt(childcount()); grid-template-columns: repeat(var(--columns, 1fr); 1...5 -> 2 cols 6...11 -> 3 cols (math likely wrong)

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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 · 06/03/2026

now all we need is to define a standard form for export/import to improve portability and avoid vendor lock-in 😂

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Stephane "Rainlife" Vanraes 🦄 @arzidava.com · 05/03/2026

Been working on one myself as well, a lot more minimalist though 🙂 In your app you can re-run a session from the 'progress' page but there does not seem to be an easy option to do so from 'start session' ? (my app is fully structured around the idea of "programs")

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