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blackspike @blackspike.com · 15/09/2026

due to ah, exceeding the free egress tier on supabase, our hand has been forced to push the beta version live! so long supabase, hallo pocketbase. please check out spike news v8 and report any bugs! spike.news

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spike.news - simple news aggregator

Aggregating the news from around the web every minute

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 01/09/2026

spike news v7 → v8 beta we've been tinkering with spike news, please help kick the tyres on beta.spike.news major changes - moved from supabase to pocketbase on @pikapods.bsky.social (yay!) - removed user accounts. we've added import/export for syncing - @nuxt.com v3 → v4, aged deps updated

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spike.news - Simple news aggregator

Aggregating the news from around the web every minute

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 17/02/2026

having fun making little animated web ~~gifs~~ videos for a client with @blender.org #b3d

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 26/01/2026

spike.news stats (25 Jan 2026) UNIQUE VISITORS: 734 PAGEVIEWS: 1.4k spike.news

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 09/01/2026

New blog post! Taking stock of the services we hosted our bits and bytes on in 2025, and our feeble attempts to de-USA-ify our tech and become more EU-based www.blackspike.com/blog/where-w... #hosting #webdev #based

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Where we hosted our webapps, websites, WordPress and data in 2025, and the hosts we dropped

And how our attempt to be less reliant on US services and more EU based is going

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 09/01/2026

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Where we hosted our webapps, websites, WordPress and data in 2025, and the hosts we dropped

And how our attempt to be less reliant on US services and more EU based is going

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 07/10/2025

our logo concept for an #ai startup was rejected for being 'inappropriate' 😶

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 23/09/2025

just remembered about the new ( #vue 3.5 ) useId() helper, which of course, works great in #nuxt vuejs.org/api/composit...

screenshot of the rendered html showing unique id's

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Nuxt @nuxt.com · 15/07/2025

Nuxt 4.0 is here at last … and it's all about DX ✨ 🗂️ app/ directory for better organisation 🔄 smarter data fetching ⚡️ a faster CLI with socket communication 🔧 improved TypeScript integration ... and a smooth upgrade experience. 💚 👉 nuxt.com/blog/v4

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Announcing Nuxt 4.0 · Nuxt Blog

Nuxt 4.0 is here! A thoughtful evolution focused on developer experience, with better project organization, smarter data fetching, and improved type safety.

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 11/07/2025

Any Astro devs curious about Nuxt 4? We've been itching to try out the alpha, so we recreated our blackspike Astro theme to Nuxt and blogged about the process. www.blackspike.com/blog/convert... #nuxt #nuxt4 #astro #withastro @nuxt.com @astro.build

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Converting an Astro 5 website to Nuxt 4, or: Nuxt vs Astro for Astro developers

We released a free Astro theme using the experimental fonts api, image components and imported SVGs. This is how we recreated it in Nuxt 4 alpha.

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 11/07/2025

@inertia.social hey thanks for the follow. great logo!

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 10/07/2025

woah! since when does alt+clicking a component name in #vscode #nuxt projects open the component file instead of components.d.ts?? Our biggest dx gripe since Nuxt v1 looks vanquished! Great work @nuxt.com 🎉

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 09/07/2025

one more side project domain name released back into the wild. so long, mastodon-id dot party, and welcome mastodon-id.blackspike.com – a simple tool for finding your mastodon id. you could probably have guessed that. #domains

mastodon-id.blackspike.com

Find your Mastodon account ID

A little tool to help find your Mastodon account ID

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 20/06/2025

We made ourselves a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender. Grab it, and the .blend file here. Or don't. www.blackspike.com/blog/blacksp... #blender #wallpaper #design #3D #graphicDesign #blackspike

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blackspike wallpapers

We made a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender, grab it and the .blend file here

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 02/07/2025

we've let another #vueJs side project's domain expire and moved it under a subdomain. Farewell pixelate.pictures, long live pixels.blackspike.com

pixels.blackspike.com

pixelate.pictures by blackspike.com

A toy app to convert images to pixels!

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 26/06/2025

tried out the experimental @astro.build 5.10 live collections by putting a pixelfed atom photostream on a blog felix.gripe/photos Uses the live feed #astro loader by @mk.gg - thanks Matt!

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 25/06/2025

updated an image-heavy @astro.build website to 5.10 and turned on the new responsive images. They weren't kidding about the increased @netlify.com build times 😮 from 5 mins to 45 mins! Looks like they are cached but damn that took a while #astro

screenshot of netlify build times, first in 4m 51s, next was 46m 8s and the next 4m 52s

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 20/06/2025

We made ourselves a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender. Grab it, and the .blend file here. Or don't. www.blackspike.com/blog/blacksp... #blender #wallpaper #design #3D #graphicDesign #blackspike

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blackspike wallpapers

We made a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender, grab it and the .blend file here

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 18/06/2025

Should you get tasked with designing a #PPT deck, install the super handy and free #PowerPoint Toolbar – it places all the design tools right up in the toolbar. It's by Slidor, a french company cursed to walk the earth designing in PowerPoint for sins unknown www.slidor.agency/toolbar-powe...

screenshot of a ppt slide with all the design tools in the red header

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 16/06/2025

Delighted to finally add our logo to the eduspots.org partner section. We've just rebuilt their #WordPress backend and server – it had picked up some digitial barnacles in the 8 or so years since we first designed and built the website. A brilliant initiative we are proud to support.

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EduSpots - Home

EduSpots connects, trains and equips local teams, enabling them to create the futures they want to see for their communities through education spaces named ‘Spots’.

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 11/06/2025

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has finally progressed us to the acceptance stage. So, we experimented with vibe-coding a #Nuxt 4 PWA using #Cursor, and blogged about the experience here www.blackspike.com/blog/vibe-co... TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

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We vibe-coded a Nuxt 4 PWA. A concerned webdev agency's initial reactions.

As a web design agency in the business of coding web apps, we tried prompting out a flashcard app to probe the state of ai coding.

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 11/06/2025

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We vibe-coded a Nuxt 4 PWA. A concerned webdev agency's initial reactions.

As a web design agency in the business of coding web apps, we tried prompting out a flashcard app to probe the state of ai coding.

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 08/06/2025

we have spent the weekend vibe-coding for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. we built a flashcard pwa for learning greek alphabet/numbers using @nuxt.com v4, @vuejs.org and @tailwindcss.com. we used cursor (also for the first time) and eleven labs to generate the audio.

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 06/06/2025

bad cross-browser things are happening to css again

safari/chrome/firefox all showing different renderings of the same codepen css

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Josh Tumath @joshtumath.uk · 05/06/2025

If you use overscroll-behavior: contain, you can stop the browser back button from being invoked when scrolling too much to the left. Yessss! You should use this most of the time. #CSSDay

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 03/06/2025

We keep a @codepen.io pen around for trying out all the new cursed #CSS features we hear about. We've just added **data- types** and a **css-if** function 🥴 Almost all the new features are latest-chrome only, concerningly codepen.io/blackspike/p... #webdev #html #cursed

screenshot of codepen editor highlighting a css if function

screenshot of codepen editor showing word blocks saying welcome to the jungle at jaunty angles

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Nuxt @nuxt.com · 02/06/2025

we are delighted to announce that nuxt v4 alpha ships TODAY! 🎉 ... and we're aiming for a stable release of v4 by the end of the month. (nuxt v5 will come later this year once nitro v3 is ready) 👉 you can read the full article at nuxt.com/blog/roadma...

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Roadmap to v4 · Nuxt Blog

We have some exciting news about the roadmap to Nuxt 4, including a new timeline and what to expect in the next few weeks.

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Astro @astro.build · 02/06/2025

What was new in Astro's merry, merry month of May? Our monthly roundup includes: 🧑‍🚀 Stay up-to-date with news from mission control ✨ Get inspired by the hottest (and weirdest) new Astro sites 🧑‍🎓 Sharpen your skills with the best new videos, posts and courses 🌲 Spruce up your site with new templates

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What's new in Astro - May 2025 | Astro

May 2025 - Michelin + ApostropheCMS case study, new Astro course from James Q Quick, and more!

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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 30/05/2025

Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs) voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

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Announcing Rolldown-Vite

We are building the next generation of JavaScript tooling

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 29/05/2025

This is so random! and muuuuch needed A new Random namespace with 22 methods for working with randomness in JavaScript. proposal just hit Stage 1

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 30/05/2025

✨ Add the closedby="any" attribute to your #HTML <dialog> elements for zero #JavaScript click-outside to close ✨ chrome/chredge only atm #webdev #tip 👉 demo astro-theme.blackspike.com

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 29/05/2025

Just renewed the domain for spike.news ($22, @porkbun.com), our oldest and favouritist side project – since 2009! V7 is made with @nuxt.com, @vuejs.org and @supabase.com. #nuxt

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Spike.News - Simple news aggregator

Aggregating the news from around the web every minute

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 29/05/2025

great job on the SQL Server 2025 icon design! very nice 👏 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...

two blue semi-circles in pseudo 3d stacked to look like a database

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 28/05/2025

Behold! A second video in our pivot to video experiment. This one is about how we use AI to write single-use AppleScript macOS applications to encode web-ready video to optimised mp4, webm, and avif. youtu.be/kMqj5F2YwVQ #webdev #macos #applescript #ffmpeg #webm #avif #ai #grind #pivotingWildly

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Make custom macOS apps: creating our own web development tools

YouTube video by blackspike design

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 28/05/2025

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Make custom macOS apps: creating our own web development tools

YouTube video by blackspike design

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 27/05/2025

it's so fun making little vfx animations in @blender.org #b3d

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 26/05/2025

👀 bsky.app/profile/nuxt... #nuxt4

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 26/05/2025

In honour of Terry Pratchett & The Glorious 25th of May, you can set your X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett header on netlify-hosted apps by adding a _headers file xclacksoverhead.org "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."

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X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

blackspike.com showing the X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett header

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 22/05/2025

Are we still pivoting to video? We have made a blackspike YouTube channel after 15 years and plopped upon it a new #CSS and #HTML tips video based on the 🆒 techniques we used for our new Astro theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IL...

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10 cutting edge CSS & HTML tips for 2025

YouTube video by blackspike design

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Bramus @bram.us · 22/05/2025

My #GoogleIO video “Web animations today and tomorrow” has been published. Check out this session to learn how to guide, inform, and delight users by adding subtle and supportive animations to your web UIs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXW...

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Web animations today and tomorrow

YouTube video by Chrome for Developers

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