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@charismagic.studio
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🗺️ NL born, after 10 years in HK, summering in The Netherlands and wintering in Bangkok. 💕 Doing all things SmashingConf. 🌃 Dumpling eater and skyscraper admirer. 👩‍💻 Still building websites and loving it. 🧍‍♀️ Also love food, travel, games and Ferdi 🐈‍⬛

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Charis @charismagic.studio · 1h
Och Paulien ❤️‍🩹
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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 22h
saw this on a walk and I think more of y'all should see it
y'all want everything... but nothing if it takes time
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 29/09/2026
Lordy Slack, you have been adding so much bullshit to your app and there is no way to turn it off.
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 28/09/2026
This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 27/09/2026
This week, I vibe-coded a web app to replace Harvest for time tracking. I also built an OCR receipt-scanning app to replace Foreceipt, and a small bookmarklet for checking links on any web page; after the one I used previously became cluttered with logins and ads. Hurray! * had an AI made it for me
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dietrich @burrito.space · 26/09/2026
before the flood, did have a nice hang with @charismagic.studio and Jarijn at Sad Bar, a mental health themed cocktail micro-bar. (careful eyes will spot the DSM-5 in the background)
three people looking sad in a bar
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Fronteers @fronteers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
⏰ Last call for Fronteers Dark Mode 2026! Ticket sales close tomorrow, Saturday at midnight, and there are just 13 seats left. So if you’ve been thinking about joining us in Dordrecht next Friday, this really is your last chance. 🌑✨ 🎟️ www.fronteersconf.org We’d love to see you there! ❤️
Fronteers Dark Mode 2026, Friday, October 2, at Cinema De Witt in Dordrecht. An intimate evening of frontend talks and community from 3 PM until after midnight. Tickets €99 at fronteersconf.org. Collage showing Dordrecht, dinner, the Cinema De Witt venue and its red-seated screening room, with a QR code linking to the conference website.
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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 24/09/2026
Fronteers Dark Mode conference is next week! Monday I'll send badges to the printer... which means if you want a proper badge... sign up now! We've got a handful of tickets left and they are only €100 for an evening of front-end talks by some amazing speakers. www.fronteersconf.org
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Fronteers Dark Mode, Friday, October 2nd, Dordrecht
Join us at Cinema de Witt in Dordrecht for our after work conference.
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 24/09/2026
Today at 6 pm CEST I'm doing a live, one hour accessibility testing session. You send me links, I test them and comment what I see. Hosted by my friends at @smashingconf.com! smashingconf.com/online-works...
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Live Accessibility Testing — Online Workshops
In this one-hour session, Manuel Matuzović will test the websites you provide for accessibility issues and show you quick first steps you can take to identify and assess them. You will learn how to us...
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
De video waarvan Meta niet wil dat je ‘m ziet
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 24/09/2026
What Bluesky app are you all using?
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jviide.iki.fi @jviide.iki.fi · 23/09/2026
Claude Code explaining why it changed three files.
A pale fish (?) with a large round sac. A Wikipedia-style caption reads: "The horngus of a dongfish is attached by a scungle to a kind of dillsack (the nutte sac)", followed by citation [77].
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 23/09/2026
I'm happy and honored to be taking part in this year's #id24! I'll be guest-hosting two presentations: @matuzo.at 's and Christof Hassler's—tomorrow morning (UTC) Check the schedule for your time zone: inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/ & join the event online ✨
inclusivedesign24.org
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 19/09/2026
ordinaryabundance.com 🤤
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 19/09/2026
#jetlag “You're opening your eyes in the deepest trough of your biological night, which is why your adrenal system panics and dumps cortisol into your bloodstream.” Thanks Gemini. 🫠
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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 18/09/2026
Two weeks from now Fronteers Dark Mode will happen in Dordrecht in The Netherlands. There are still a few tickets left. Be quick ⚠️ Join us for an afternoon and evening of great talks. With a spectacular line up: @anjana.dev, @tunetheweb.com, @cydstumpel.nl, @csswizardry.com and @heydonworks.com
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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 15/09/2026
This GIF from @joshwcomeau.com's last email is mesmerizing. Here's the border-shape he made of that codepen.io/editor/joshw...
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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · 17/09/2026
In case you missed it: with Hannah Smith and @kevinpowell.co two lovely faces are already smiling from our speakers page for #btconf Düsseldorf 2027. 211 tickets gone already. If you want to be part, better don't wait to the last minute ;) beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...
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beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf - 19–20 Apr 2027
beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and frien...
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 17/09/2026
Friends, it's that time of the year: Once again, I'm asking you to help me create another amazing HTMHell Advent Calendar by writing about HTML. The CFP is open until October 3! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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HTMHell Advent Calendar
Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2026, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too. Last year, once again, you contrib...
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Qatar Airways was voted the world’s best airline in 2025. Its booking site ranks 79th out of 111. Cathay Pacific, five stars, ranks dead last. I spent a while digging into why airline websites are so slow, and what the fast ones (Ryanair, Frontier) do differently. calibreapp.com/blog/airline...
Slope chart comparing Skytrax 2025 service ranking with Calibre's website performance ranking for the ten highest-rated airlines. Lines connect each airline's service rank on the left to its performance rank out of 111 on the right. Nearly all lines plunge downward: Qatar Airways drops from 1st to 79th, Singapore Airlines 2nd to 31st, Cathay Pacific 3rd to 109th, Air France 8th to 95th, Japan Airlines 9th to 106th. Only Hainan Airlines rises, from 10th to 6th.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 15/09/2026
I mean it with "cares" too, because as @vale.rocks rightly highlighted, it took mere hours for @digitalocean.com to pony up $3 mil to turbo-racist, DHH's dotfiles project…
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CSS-Tricks in Limbo - 15 Sept 2026 01:35 UTC
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Geoff Graham @geoffgraham.me · 14/09/2026
📝 Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately (cc: @digitalocean.com @css-tricks.bsky.social ) geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...
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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 14/09/2026
The bussier I am, the less you’ll hear from me. A life update in one message. SmashingConf Freiburg was glorious. Tomorrow we fly to Bangkok for 6+ months. Endless mom-health-worries. We got our bags packed, I am excited. And in the meantime thinking, whyyy? :-) Talk soon!
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Emma Bostian @emmabostian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just watched @heydonworks.com make music with HTML and I have no words. Genuinely the most incredible talk I’ve ever seen 🐮 🔔 @smashingconf.com
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 14/09/2026
Only 9 days until #ID24! 😍 24 talks about accessibility in 24 hours, for free! inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
inclusivedesign24.org
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 09/09/2026
Oh? Great, a bigger phone. *hugs the iPhone mini*
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 04/09/2026
Which bookmarklet do you use to check dead links on a page? (yes, it’s your aunty Charis still using a link checker)
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 02/09/2026
@jesslynnrose.bsky.social these jobs might also be interring for your remote Asia thread. lnkd.in/p/edERm3EU
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Good Growth 2026 Opportunities | The Good Growth Co
We’re expanding our team at Good Growth to help reshape Asia's sustainable food sector, and we are looking for two practice leads: Strategy Design Lead: A remote, Asia-focused role (part-time to full...
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WDC @webdevconf.com · 01/09/2026
We've made it to September which means WDC2026 is just over a month away! Tickets are just £99! With awesome speakers: @joshtumath.uk @amyhupe.bsky.social @paavandesign.com @cjforms.bsky.social @duncanpetrie.com @hidde.blog In the great city of Bristol! webdevconf.com
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WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference
WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 31/08/2026
So Harvest got build by Bending Spoons. And look, my subscription went × 10. (Also, I just paid for an entire year. How does this even work?). How they fucked up a lovely project so fast.
⚠️ On your next renewal date, October 01, 2026, your account will be transitioned to a Harvest Enterprise plan with Unlimited usage billing.

You will be automatically billed $1 158,00 for your new annual plan.
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Greg Wolanski @gregwolanski.com · 25/08/2026
gregwolanski.com
I believe in emails
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 24/08/2026
What a week, hah?
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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 23/08/2026
I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers. codepen.io/editor/chris...
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 21/08/2026
Animating a sausage roll. #work
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚀 I made a smol ~2kb syntax highlighter that uses the CSS `::highlight()` API. davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/
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MicroLighter - A zero-dep syntax highlighter
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 19/08/2026
People on their Linkedin. Ex-Google, Snoofle, Blerple. But no one ever says: Replies to email in one day. 😒
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 17/08/2026
Here is the 2026 edition of the HTML boilerplate I use for websites I build! Let me know if there's anything else I should consider including! matuzo.at/blog/2026/ht...
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My HTML boilerplate in 2026 - Manuel Matuzovic
Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 16/08/2026
Exciting weeks at casa Charis. Our 5 year Thailand visa came through. Working hard on Ferdi’s 🐈‍⬛ paperwork. A couple of days after SmashingConf Freiburg we are off to Bangkok for the winter. It’s exciting, emotionally draining and us thinking a lot: whhyyy. 😂 Anyway; can’t wait!
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 12/08/2026
Camera obscura-ing.
Me looking into a big box, aka a camera obscura.
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SmashingConf @smashingconf.com · 11/08/2026
We want to make #SmashingConf Freiburg accessible to everyone! If you are part of an underrepresented group in tech or design, apply for a scholarship ticket to join us in person in Freiburg or online from anywhere. 🎟️ 👉 Apply here: smashingconf.com/scholarship-... A share is deeply appreciated! 💖
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Scholarship and Volunteering
Are you a part of an underrepresented group in tech? Or maybe you’d like to help us out during the days and become a volunteer?
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Dan Cederholm @simplebits.com · 09/08/2026
Some glyphs in the new weights coming very soon to Hubano, my typeface inspired by Cuban cigar box lettering.
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 03/08/2026
A train from London to Germany, 240 euros. A flight from London to Germany, 50 euros. Whyyyyy is it still like this?
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 31/07/2026
I got pretty excited about the Claude integration with Buffer, but it doesn’t seem to work. *cries*
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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 29/07/2026
💡 CSS Tip! After corner-shape, shape(), and border-shape, another feature is available to play with: rounding polygons. css-tip.com/rounded-shap... You create a polygon, add a radius value at the beginning, and you have a shape with rounded corners!
Rounding the corners of various CSS shapes (triangle, starburst and random shape)
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 29/07/2026
Taking your puking pooing yelling toddler with you to a hotel in Thailand. All free, welcome! Taking your fluffy well behaved and super fun cat with you. Very expensive!
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Charis @charismagic.studio · 29/07/2026
My timeline here is full of people complaining about the world bc the US is fucking up so bad. I know. But you’re turning my lovely bluesky into a hell scroll too. Tell me the cool things you’re working on, something nice you’ve done lately.
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