Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 02/02/2026Friendly reminder that your time-saving AI skills work because, most likely, some open-source developer put their free time in 051
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 29/01/20265 jobs I've had - Paper round - Antique clock shop assistant - Theme park ride operator - Door-to-door fundraiser - Design engineer 120
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 25/01/2026Watched “Hamnet” last night and genuinely not a dry eye in the cinema when the credits rolled One of the most devastatingly beautiful films I’ve ever seen 111
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 28/10/2025Genuinely mad impressed at how easy it was to port over a Next.js site to @netlify.com — everything just worked 1110
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 16/09/2025RIP to all my fellow web devs waking up this morning to learn that they now need to account for a *third* iOS Safari layout when stretching content to viewport height 79016
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 04/09/2025After months of building, today we're exiting stealth mode! Introducing ˗ˏˋ operate.so ˎˊ- A precision-built CRM designed for sales and built for foundersoperate.soOperateA CRM designed for sales, built for founders 281
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 05/08/2025If your app contains multiple scroll containers, consider adding `overscroll-behavior: none` to your html/body to prevent "page bounce" 1293
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 28/07/2025happy monday to everyone except the people who decided `backdrop-filter` should affect scrollbars 030
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 04/06/2025The best thing about working in tech isn’t the hustle or the grind, it’s about flying to the other side of the planet to spend time with the friends you made along the way 170
Reposted by Joe BellPiccalilli @piccalil.li · 13/05/2025We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education for free at the point of entry.piccalil.liWe need your support to do free projects for good causes and publish free high quality educationWe’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education... 214150
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 13/05/20256 years ago, I moved to Estonia to live with a woman I met on Bumble just 3 months before In 8 weeks, I'm marrying her Life is wild, but beautiful 4470
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 03/05/2025Tried every auth service imaginable today just trying to get a simple "magic link" login working for our tiny wedding website (powered by @astro.build) Turns out, the magic combo was @supabase.com + @resend.com 060
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 30/04/2025You know you're in a great company when you feel free to yolo ideas straight to prod without the fear of pushback 030
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 23/04/2025Is there anyone at @cloudflare.social or @astro.build who could help me understand whether to deploy my Astro site to “Cloudflare Workers” or “Cloudflare Pages”? Seems that both offer the same features, but Cloudflare seems to be leaning into Workers for its new Vite plugin Feeling a tad lost 221
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 19/04/2025Nuclear take: AI image tools are the Snapchat filters of our generation 150
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 08/03/2025Stumbled across fontsource.org today – an absolutely delightful library of self-hostable fonts for Vite-based projects Major kudos to @ayuhito.comfontsource.orgFontsourceDownload and self-host 1500+ open-source fonts in neatly bundled NPM packages. Access a comprehensive library of web typefaces for free. 0221
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 03/03/2025Since launching in February 2022, I've received ~$300 in sponsorships for cva.style Today I'm donating it all to support the people of Ukraine 3150
Reposted by Joe BellKaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge. 667192075547
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 27/02/2025Looking forward to the day when a shiny new mail/calendar app launches that supports more than just Google accounts 140
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 19/02/2025I don't use stitches.dev anymore, but I still love – and regularly use – its "locally scoped tokens" paradigm For global custom properties use two dashes: var(--color-primary) For component-specific custom properties, use three: var(---color) 3140
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 19/02/2025Hearing Trump claim Ukraine “started the war” gave me a pit in my stomach For those who voted for this, do yourself a favour and read about “Bucha” Do you really think a country whose soldiers mutilated civilians and raped children seeks peace? www.reuters.com/world/europe...reuters.comIn Ukrainian street, a corpse with hands bound and a bullet wound to the headA man lay sprawled by the roadside in the Ukrainian city of Bucha on Sunday, his hands tied behind his back and a bullet wound to his head, one of hundreds of local residents that officials say have been found dead in the wake of five weeks of Russian occupation. 011
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 10/02/2025Truly envy the folks who are the most productive in their intricate home office setups Stick me in an unbearably loud café on a metal barstool at a wonky table – dying for the toilet because I don't want to lose my seat or pack my laptop away – and I will get 3 days of work done in 3 hours 2140
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 30/01/2025Beyond ridiculous that it's 2025 and you still can't convert a Google Workspace account to a personal account 2130
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 27/01/2025Once again, I cannot stress enough how much I love @astro.build Spun up a completely bespoke Storybook-esque docs site today in a matter of hours; using “Content Collections” to load all component README’s straight from the source as type-safe data Just delightful stuff 3462
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 24/01/2025Any other open-source project creators ever think “Wow I truly have no idea what I’m doing. How on earth have I ended up in a position where people rely on me for this?” Asking for a friend 2130
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 23/01/2025Willing to invest in a startup that successfully removes any mention of Elon Musk from my existence 2230
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 22/01/2025PSA: if you're using @tailwindcss.com with cva.style, consider updating your IntelliSense classRegex for a more robust solution 🏋🏼 Stable: cva.style/docs/getting-started/installation#intellisense Beta: beta.cva.style/getting-started/installation#intellisense Kudos to github.com/longzheng 0130
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 18/01/2025Last year I was juggling a puppy, moving house, and burnout Now I'm juggling a teenage dog, wedding planning, a new job, and a desire to be more creative for the sake of creativity That said, I'm determined to see this through 1310
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 10/01/2025I asked my dog to build a web app with Cursor and v0 What happened next will surprise you 2240
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 06/01/2025It's that time of the year – for the 6th year – where UK Student Loans send me a physical letter across the European continent asking me to provide proof of overseas employment Proof in the form of a letter from my employer stating my salary A letter from myself stating my own salary, signed by me 050
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 01/01/2025Haven’t written a line of code or opened GitHub in 2 weeks Bliss 1350
Joe Bell @joebell.studio · 21/12/2024Friendly reminder to clean up your DNS configuration when deleting a project Signed, Someone who discovered their domain was being used to host an Indonesian gambling site 070
