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Max Duval

@mxdvl.com
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Web + Data + Tools + Design I lead UK property data exploration & visualisation at Hometrack on data.hometrack.com (parfois j’écris en Français…)

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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 18/08/2026
Damn, feeling grateful for so many good things I have in my life 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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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 17/08/2026
Making a digital watch face is easy. Making it elegant and legible is not.
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 15/08/2026
I’ve been having many lusional thoughts lately…
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 26/07/2026
“Multi-Fascinator Authentication”
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 27/06/2026
Pastèque sucrée élevée
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 13/06/2026
Friendly reminder to turn on Wifi calling if your phone and provider allow — in London the cellular reception indoors can be shoddy
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 02/04/2026
@atls.city !set GB-ENG-London
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 30/03/2026
If one wishes to put reviews of places on the Atmosphere, would the lexicon point to OpenStreet Maps references? Could it become and incentive to improve the only open mapping commons we have?
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 21/02/2026
I was today years old when I learned that PHP has had a pipe operator since November 2025 `$mind |> blow(…)` www.php.net/manual/en/la...
php.net
PHP: Functional - Manual
Functional Operators
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 10/02/2026
Who would have thought that a large chunk of the world’s code would be version controlled on a platform with a single nine…
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 29/01/2026
I’ll try and get a personal best for my next half marathon in May… so I made a tool to see how quickly I need to go along the way: www.mxdvl.com/tools/pace
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 28/01/2026
@danabra.mov thanks for quickly explaining lexicons versioning — it reminded me of “required is forever” in thrift diwakergupta.github.io/thrift-missi...
diwakergupta.github.io
Thrift: The Missing Guide
A comprehensive guide and reference documentation for Thrift
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 18/01/2026
Slightly diminish a brand: The North Face in the Southern Hemisphere
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 13/12/2025
Trail of Parkrunners emerging from the fog in Hackney Marshes. A crow hovers above the silhouette skyline.
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 25/11/2025
🐍 ≫ 🐫
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 17/11/2025
Inspired by @gearsco.de’s talk at #ffconf I finally took @gleam.run for a proper spin and… I love it!
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 14/11/2025
awaiting pictures of cats and stuff #ffconf
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 14/11/2025
hello @ffconf.org 👋
A view of the beach & sea in sunny* Brighton, UK

*cloudy, more like
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 14/10/2025
An absolute beauty of an API — so chuffed to see it land in Firefox!
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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 09/10/2025
As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com
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Interop Feature Ranking
Rank the web platform features you care most about
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 06/07/2025
Five fuzzy goslings huddling by a pond, with the leftmost one gazing at the camera with its beak open. Beneath them an warm orange lichen spreads.
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 14/06/2025
Saturday Parkrun iOS tip: you can create a shortcut to display a QR code for your athlete’s number, then add it to your lock or home screen. Here’s mine, for example – in French:
A shortcut in iOS showing the following steps (in French):

- Create a QR Code from A5045313
- Display QR Code
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 08/05/2025
This is especially sad when I strongly believe plain HTML & CSS to be the most portable, robust and powerful way to author documents in 2025
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 31/03/2025
Proud of two widely unrelated things I did yesterday: run quite a long while in the beautiful gardens of Kew and made a significant step in turning my .pages documents to .html
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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 06/02/2025
short little thoughtpiece on why frontend engineering is really hard macwright.com/2025/02/06/t...
macwright.com
The web is already multiplayer
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 07/01/2025
It’s a relief that in fact the @toiletmap.bsky.social isn’t such a secret: secretldn.com/public-toile... Happy to have contributed to a more readable base layer — further contributions welcome!
secretldn.com
Here’s Every Open Toilet In London On One Map
You know how the saying goes, when you gotta go, you gotta go. These are all the open toilets
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 02/12/2024
last week to fill out the state of JS survey, if you're so inclined stateofjs.com/en-US
stateofjs.com
State of JavaScript
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 21/11/2024
If you wondered whether there was more than one way to draw a rectangle with three rounded corners in SVG, wonder no more as I’ve found six already: codepen.io/mxdvl/pen/XW...
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Six ways to round a corner
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 24/10/2023
Some thoughts on the benefits of standardisation in programming: www.theguardian.com/info/2023/oc...
theguardian.com
Standardisation: the merit of consistent patterns
Coming back from a long holiday? Recently joined the department? Collaborating on a complex, cross-team problem that spans different tech stacks and programming languages? At one point, we’re all go...
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 16/08/2023
The Webpack website is really trying to FOUC with us…
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Max Duval @mxdvl.com · 12/08/2023
Making a CSS only slideshow has a lot of moving parts — it helps to visualise layers: svelte.dev/repl/20177b676e9d4f3893b…
Screenshot of three slides stacked. The middle one is translucent.
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