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Christian Alder

@hejchristian.com
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Building websites, playing board games, observing nature. Will fika ☕️ /_src 🇸🇪 /_draft 🇬🇧 /_live 🇵🇹 He / Him, Powered by 🌱 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 8h
State of this dev 2026: 🫩
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 11h
for some reason wordpress decided not to make the chart the featured image, so here it is
A line chart showing sporadic peaks, but healthy sales with a sudden drop-off to an almost flat-line situation. The drop-off is labelled 2026
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Obsidian @obsidian.md · 29/09/2026
Obsidian 1.14.3 (early access) is now available. - New Group menu in Bases lets you control columns in Kanban. Also works with tables, lists, cards. - Added macOS Quick Look, so you can instantly preview Markdown files even when Obsidian is not open. And lots more!
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 28/09/2026
Trying the analogue way. A few errors in my template I printed a few test sheets of (since fixed). I'm hopeful! but let's see how it is by the end of the week 😅✏️
An A5 ring binder open with a weekly planner sheet visible (tasks pixelated to obscure what they are) A smaller (smaller than A6) little pocket notebook is also visible with a pen.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 27/09/2026
Suddenly it was operation save the baby Moorish Gecko that got into the house 🦎
A very small, baby moorish gecko in a plastic container that we've used to help take it outside. The lizard has tubercules over its body, and its colour is a blend of brown, grey, and tan shades.The underbelly of the same baby moorish gecko,  seen through a plastic container. The skin here is thin and translucent so we can see inside its body slightly, and it had 5 little toes on each foot as it holds onto the container.The same moorish gecko, now from a different angle and with my partners finger resting on the other side of the plastic container, against the spot where the lizards foot is resting - looks like holding hands.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 27/09/2026
#SilentSunday
A view out towards the North Atlantic Ocean from somewhere along the coast of Portugal. A rough and rocky cliff edge (not super tall, we're able to get down to the water ok) curves around the bottom of the photo with some green foliage in the foreground. The water in the middle is various shades of light blue. On the horizon line a container ship can be seen, standing out against the pale blue and slightly hazy, but clear of cloud sky above it.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 27/09/2026
A lil Stonechat pondering what to do on a Sunday. 🪿 European Stonechat, ebird.org/species/ston... #Birds #Portugal #Photography
A small European Stonechat (Possible juvenile?) perched on top of a bird crap covered concrete pillar with some exposed rebar. The bird has its head tilted to the side, almost as though it's deep in thought. The bird has a small black beak and legs, with a coffee/orange body feathers and wings with a pattern of various shades of brown and black.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 26/09/2026
Hoopoe breakfast ☺️ I didn't plan to capture any video today, so I've only got super shaky footage as I wasn't using a tripod. I could have done with recording at a higher frame rate too, to create a better slow-mo... 😅 #Birds
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 25/09/2026
I know this is self inflicted and all, but damn, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to just have a nice time on social media. Doesn't matter the platform, nor if I've touched grass or had time away. I'll open these tabs, scroll a bit, and come away feeling just a bit more shit each time 🫩
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 23/09/2026
Making Kanelbullar (Cinnamon rolls 🇸🇪). Yeast not yeasting. 20+ different utensils used. Wrong sugar. Cinnamon everywhere.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 21/09/2026
Just wasted around two hours (slow ass internet) downloading a Linux distro for the wrong CPU architecture 🤦 Don't distro hop while tired I guess 😅
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Nathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 19/09/2026
nazi devs fuck off.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 19/09/2026
We're on the last season of The Expanse now (loving it!) and already with plenty of good stuff ready for when we're done with that. Ted Lasso S4, MobLand S2, Slow Horses S6, Reacher S4, Neagley S1 🤩 I know it wont happen but still hoping they'd come back with a Altered Carbon S3 🥺
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 19/09/2026
Removing a broken screen from a laptop and trying to turn it into a Linux TV box will be a fun weekend project ☺️ I've previously fixed this laptop three times now, but it keeps coming back to me broken... Enough is enough, I'll salvage it, and we're getting the previous owner a cheaper device 😅
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Tyler Sticka @tylersticka.com · 18/09/2026
Well if @hejchristian.com’s going to reference my site’s “copy to clipboard” buttons in his work, I guess I should probably acknowledge them myself, huh? tylersticka.com/journal/that... #WebDesign #WebDev #CSS
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That Tear-Off Tab Copy Button Effect – Tyler Sticka
I added a “copy to clipboard” button to my site’s code blocks back in February. It works as you’d expect, except for one detail.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 18/09/2026
I got two of these courses (CSS and JS) and it’s top-tier money well spent material. 10/10 will always recommend.
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 18/09/2026
It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #198! piccalil.li/the-index/198/
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The Index: Issue #198
It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #198!
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 17/09/2026
Finished my implementation 🥳 Syntax highlighting (& line numbers + copy button) via MicroLighter from @davatron5000.bsky.social and inspiration for the torn tab from @tylersticka.com website. An 11ty transform to process any code blocks & add the lil washi tape thing - So my markdown stays clean ☺️
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 17/09/2026
Myself and LG 📺 are watching episode one of youtube.com/watch?v=lPPC... before sleep ☺️ good fun content this, and nice to see Tom Scott in this season.
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Jet Lag: Japanorama [Trailer]
YouTube video by Jet Lag: The Game
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Ky @ky.fyi · 16/09/2026
I'm so thrilled to see another handmade guestbook appear on the web! @espy.world did an incredible job and their website is one of the coolest things I've seen recently
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✎ GUESTBOOK
sign my guestbook...if you dare!!!
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 16/09/2026
This syntax highlighter by @davatron5000.bsky.social is incredibly nice and I've implemented it already on my site. It even comes with a nice lil web component so you can get line-numbers and a copy button real easy (Not sure which option I will go for yet tho) davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 16/09/2026
YouTube (and the internet as a whole) needs more of this kind of curious and whimsical content! Happy to see there will be an upcoming video ☺️
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 16/09/2026
MRW someone tells me they're "apolitical"
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Dale Walking Dead: I know what kind of man you are
Alt: GIF from the TV show, The Walking Dead, where an older character Dale (played by Jeffrey DeMunn) is looking at another character Shane (played by Jon Bernthal), looking up and down disapprovingly, saying "I know what kind of man you are".
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 16/09/2026
Someone just showed me how cool and important the two letters is because it *checks notes* allows them to generate that initial boilerplate code for the start of each project? to save time? ... 🤦 I'm just over here using snippets and ctrl-c, ctrl-v'ing like a behind the times weirdo I guess 🤷
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 15/09/2026
The Enshittificator is back youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 15/09/2026
Updated to macOS 27.0 🥳 I _think_ I'm liking the changes they've done to Liquid Glass (previously Liquid Ass) - I'm not entirely sure what the changes are, but it feels different, and I think I'm jamming with it 🧐
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 15/09/2026
Clicking "Follow all" on a bunch of starter packs when I first signed up here, turned out to be a bit of a mistake.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 15/09/2026
@css-tricks.bsky.social is once again stuck in an arbitrary suspension at the hands of DigitalOcean's radio silence. It is devastating to see such a brilliant publication treated so very poorly. The current situation: vale.rocks/micros/20260...
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CSS-Tricks in Limbo - 15 Sept 2026 01:35 UTC
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 14/09/2026
The two letter doomers sound a lot like this annoying kid I knew in Year 7, telling me, at length, how Al-Qaeda was going to strike Milton Keynes next because he totally saw it on the news and we're a legit target. Milton Keynes 🤣🤦 Just one bullshit flight of fancy after the other with some folks.
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Agustin Capeletto @lowpoly.gg · 13/09/2026
Here's my take on @ivorjetski.bsky.social's LED Art Challenge! I experimented with perspective and blend modes. It's CSS-only 💚 Try it: codepen.io/editor/alowp...
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 13/09/2026
Huh, so setting up Tailscale felt _too_ easy. Now I can access my self-hosted RSS (Miniflux) and podcasts (Audiobookshelf) away from the local network 🥳
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 12/09/2026
So... somehow this happened again? 😕
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Homelander: Oh No, Not Again
Alt: GIF of Homelander from the TV show 'The Boys'. He's in his 'superhero' outfit with a look of utter disbelief, confusion, disappointment, exasperation? with text overlayed that reads "Oh no, not again..."
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 12/09/2026
Petrichor is such a nice music player 🤩 Last time I shared this app I don't think they had a website for it, so sharing again! Going to miss this one when I switch operating systems. petrichor.page
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Petrichor - An offline music player for macOS
Petrichor is a music player for macOS that plays almost any format and keeps your local library organized.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 12/09/2026
That kind of weather that gives me an instant migraine just stepping outside to hang laundry 🌞🫠
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 12/09/2026
Damn, weekend came out of nowhere and I've got no lil weekend project lined up for myself 🤔 Probably try to get my lil self-hosted thing accessible outside of our own network first, then maybe crack open Affinity and try to do some designs.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 11/09/2026
Having a cursed time trying to buy albums on Bandcamp lately. Every type of payment is declined. Multiple cards, paypal, declined. Waiting weeks to try again, declined. I've contacted them a few times now with the error messages/number, never hear anything back 😞
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 10/09/2026
Has getting mods for a Skyrim install always been such a seedy experience? Feels like I'm browsing through the top shelf magazines when all I wanted was the right SkyUI files 😵
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 10/09/2026
My partner suggested I might like a more analogue planner and now I'm looking at Kinbor, Hobonichi, and more 🤩 What I'm most intrigued about and probably going to try though, is an A6/A5 refillable binder, so I can get (or print) exactly the kind of layout I'm after, adding/removing pages as I go 📔
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Scott Riley @scott.is · 10/09/2026
🦄🌈 launch day babeyyy 🌈🦄 super excited to announce the launch of mindful design products. calm products for a chaotic world. the goal is to build a line of lovely things that are designed for real people. first app is lorist, a writing app that gets out of your way. mindfuldesign.xyz/products/
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Mindful Design Products – Mindful Design
Mindful Design products are forever–free products designed from the ground up to be calm, opinionated, and lovely to use.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 10/09/2026
These new tech announcements don’t bring me joy 😕 know what might? A no nonsense stable printer that doesn’t check for genuine ink.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 10/09/2026
Damn, I missed out on getting a Kallax voiced by Matt Berry on our IKEA trip yesterday! I fear I will end up annoying my partner a bit with the new dragon shout unlock too... "EYE-KEY-AHHHH" Also... seeing this has _really_ made me want to install Skyrim again 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tBl...
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KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.
YouTube video by IKEA UK
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 09/09/2026
I wonder which company will next contribute money to some *checks notes* fascist dotfiles?
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 09/09/2026
The trip to IKEA wasn't a complete bust, we got a tomte 🥳
Selfie photo of myself holding a Tomte we got at IKEA. A small plushie with big red hat and a bug bushy beard, only visible is the nose of the tomte. My face is obscured by my holding the tomte in front of it, but I'm wearing headphones and smiling slightly.
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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 09/09/2026
New post 📮 I was tired of building 474 separate pages for Open Graph Images www.zachleat.com/web/open-graph-eas…
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I was tired of building 474 separate pages for Open Graph Images—zachleat.com
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 09/09/2026
IKEA Portugal stopped serving the vegan plantballs in their restaurant nationwide, and that's made me sad 😢
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 09/09/2026
Somehow got marked and blocked due to being an aibro? lol, the fuck I am.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 09/09/2026
Here is my fully documented HTML boilerplate. It is a lean, minimal and solid foundation I use across the sites I develop. Written mostly for me, because I'm sure to forget why I've done things the way I have, but I hope it is of use to you too. vale.rocks/posts/html-b... #HTML #WebDev
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My HTML Boilerplate
A document outlining and explaining my general structure for HTML pages to use. A slim general markup template that applies to almost all HTML documents on the web and forgoes anything unnecessary. It is a general framework to build upon for individual sites.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 08/09/2026
Got myself back up from laying in bed feeling down and shit, and that's a damn accomplishment 💪 The hopelessness does linger, but I'm fighting that back step by step.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 08/09/2026
Ok next self-hosting side quest is to hurry up and get tailscale (or similar) working, so I can access my RSS and podcasts while I'm away from home. I neglected to do that and now I'm having to re-download some old apps like a chump 🤦
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 08/09/2026
Nah I'm good thanks 👍
Cropped screenshot from an email I got from Notion, with the subject line "Action needed: Log in to keep your Notion account"
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