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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

spike.news

spike.news - simple news aggregator

Aggregating the news from around the web every minute

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 01/09/2026

modernisation stuff - tooltips now native html anchor popovers - image lightbox now uses a native html dialog old annoying difficult bugs fixed - refreshing persists feed order! - custom feeds persist reliably! QoL changes - bigger buttons for comment links on mobile - shiny new pwa icon

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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 · 01/09/2026

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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

blackspike.com

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

2025 (EU) tech winners: 🥇 @pikapods.bsky.social 🥈 @proton.me 2025 tech losers: 👎 Gandi

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 09/01/2026

blackspike.com

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

alt text gist of the code example gist.github.com/blackspike/3...

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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 · 11/07/2025

that *is* easier! post updated, thanks!

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 11/07/2025

Check out both demos Nuxt 4: nuxt-theme.blackspike.com Astro 5: astro-theme.blackspike.com

nuxt-theme.blackspike.com

blackspike nuxt landing page

A free Nuxt landing theme made with Tailwind

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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

thank *you* for the great code! will look into creating a custom pixelfed loader so we can load more than the default 10 posts at some point…

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 26/06/2025

quick and dirty sample #astro code gist.github.com/blackspike/8... get the live feed loader here github.com/ascorbic/ast...

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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

…anecdotally, we removed the format="avif" to see if defaulting to .webp would reduce build times which was inconclusive, but the website feels snappier. Could many avif images slow the web page? Too busy to test, but will investigate 🧐 #astro

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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

blackspike.com

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.

eduspots.org

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.

blackspike.com

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

interestingly, we had exactly the same #tailwind4 setup issues using claude ourselves as mentioned in this post, we had to self-scaffold it too bsky.app/profile/did:...

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 11/06/2025

blackspike.com

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 · 08/06/2025

(a greek friend has told us the ai reading of the words is wrong and bad)

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 08/06/2025

some rough parts, and we haven't even looked at the #javascript it generated but it is a workable app. a very eye-opening experience! it is also successfully teaching us greek. app: vibecards.blackspike.com code: github.com/blackspike/g...

vibecards.blackspike.com

Greek VibeCards

LEARN GREEK OR DIE: A vibe-coded flashcard app for learning the Greek alphabet and numbers

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 08/06/2025

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blackspike @blackspike.com · 06/06/2025

..admittedly some decidedly futuristic css from our #css test codepen codepen.io/blackspike/p...

codepen.io

welcome to the jungle

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