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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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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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

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 · 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

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."

screenshot of a _headers file with the code /*
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

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

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 21/05/2025

Useful #firefox extension, *Text Fragment* for adding a 'Copy Link to Selected Text' to your context menu addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 20/05/2025

The blackspike astro landing page theme is now available on the official @astro.build themes directory! astro.build/themes/detai... bsky.app/profile/blac... #astro