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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 28/08/2026

I refreshed my website home, and with it comes the ability for you to add custom stickers to the homepage ✨ decorate away! nik.digital

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 13/07/2026

small login form details, just because I think it's cute :)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 08/07/2026

I appreciate the distinction!

A screenshot of a Bluesky notification:

"Alex Karp (not the CEO) followed you"

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 01/07/2026

Oh and finally, of course I managed to share the wrong image 💀 In 2011 there was a month where there were two who's hiring posts because the automatic script HN used broke, and the chart shows the official (but "wrong") data post. This is the one with the canonical post as a source:

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 01/07/2026

Seeing this month's "who is hiring" post on HN, I had a fun idea to visualize the data points over the years as I expected them to be a nice visualization of the current market in tech. Earlier this year was the first month ever in which less people posted jobs than wanted to be hired 🫠

A graph showing the relation between job-seeker posts and job posts on HN per month since 2014 (seeking divided by offering). The ratio between seekers and offers was about 0.4ish for a few years, briefly peaked to about 0.9 in 2020 before dropping back down, and sharpy started rising again in 2023, with the highest ever ratio of about 1.2 last month.

The graph shows two lines, one for offers and one for seekers. Job postings have noticably gone down and seekers up, with the lines crossing for the first time ever this year (more seekers than offers).

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 06/06/2026

hey, why’d nobody tell me about the road trip

The front of a bus with the label „BlueSKY“ on it

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 21/05/2026

The @npmx.dev timeline feature is so genius. Makes me so happy to see these green checks on my packages. It also helped me discover that a dependency of mine went from 49 to 139 dependencies in a single update, which I'd have totally missed otherwise ❤️

A screenshot of the npmx timeline section. It reads:

3.0.0 Latest
[Check] Trusted publishing enabled
[Check] Provenance enabled

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 23/04/2026

@matthiasott.com I *love* the little sliders on your website, but I think the mouse interaction is odd: When I drag them in a circular motion, the arrow doesn't track the mouse, and at some point it goes backwards... Sharing because I think this isn't intended? :)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 23/04/2026

New blog post on Monday! 🥁

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 17/04/2026

Wonderful use case for AI in frontend curtesy of @samwho.dev: Let the LLM generate controls to play around until things look right, then remove them again. I would usually be too lazy to do this by hand, but its one of these things where the workflow improves but the output doesn't suffer. 10/10

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 14/04/2026

my upcoming blog post will be spooky... okay, maybe not

A container showing a pac-man style ghost. In the top left there is a label "Complete" and below the container is a slider with the knob all the way on the right.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 06/04/2026

Bought a card game today. This is the box.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 06/04/2026

Just found this gem of an AI image in a blog post at the top of Hacker News. Learn all about how the fight between the Mindows Seam and the NGT Seam deomed future trameworks, and many more hilarious slop terms. Source: www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...

The 30-Year "Boof-a-Rama": Microsoft's Fragmented GUI Strategy

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 05/04/2026

Ripple effect in pure CSS using a combination of filters, blurs, contrast and blend modes. CodePen: codepen.io/editor/NikxD... Chrome & Safari only for now, Firefox does not want to animate the custom property correctly :)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 03/04/2026

Next blog post soon... I'm sharing some demos, but I won't spoil what it's about – yet!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 22/03/2026

🗺️ Ko Lanta, Thailand

A lighthouse visible behind some bushes on a hillside trek

Behind some cliffs, an island sits in the ocean

A coastal view with some rocks in the water where the ocean meets the island

Three orange lanterns hang on a rope, photographed from the bottom with the sky in the background

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 19/03/2026

Tell me your cronjob is misconfigured without telling me your cronjob is misconfigured

A bunch of emails, all with the same title "Satisfaction with [...]" and sent at 1 minute intervals

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 25/10/2025

Had an absolutely lovely call with @samwho.dev last night and halfway through he pulls up the Google Meet controls on his iPad to find... this abomination of a menu 💀 It gets worse the longer you look at it...

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 11/09/2025

Earlier this week, I learned from @patrickbrosset.com that DevTools in Chrome and Firefox are built using web technologies. That means that yes, you can inspect Chrome DevTools using Chrome DevTools 🤯

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 05/08/2025

TIL: CSS variables can contain non-ASCII characters. That means that yes, you can have emoji in a CSS variable name, and yes, zero width spaces are valid, too... in case you want to spice up your stylesheets!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 04/08/2025

@benholmen.com made it to #1 of HN with @kilopx.com – and with it, by pure chance, my little cat drawing. What are the odds! Congrats on how well the project is received over there, well deserved :)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 28/07/2025

Daily reminder that AI is still terrible at producing sources

An AI web search for the question "What is 1+1", with the answer citing "reliable sources"

A source being the music video for "Beyonce - 1+1" on YouTube.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 25/07/2025

Opinions are divided on this one for sure, but I need to rant about the new macOS design. Why would the sidebars float? Why would they be translucent if the background it now sits above is white? Everything about this looks so off, and I will hate having to look at it every day once Tahoe releases.

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 10/06/2025

Promised I'd share some of the small quality of life updates I've been working on this weekend. Up first is the ability to link to specific headings with a small link that pops out to the left on hovering!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 10/06/2025

Modifying the snooze duration? This must be iOS 26's biggest change #wwdc

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 09/06/2025

Here's a version with a persistent progress that sort of acts as a flashlight. As with anything, there are endless options to iterate!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 09/06/2025

Exploring the idea of a table of contents which I've always liked. This got me thinking that instead of a separate progress indicator, the whole element could be an indicator in itself. Some `clip-path` magic later, this seems interesting! Not quite where I want it yet, but it's a nice little idea

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 04/06/2025

Got this cute little demo working 😍 Especially proud of the fact that it has a nice border shape in line with the other objects on the page, and that the overlaps are properly sized (even the MDN docs get this wrong!)

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 31/05/2025

There's so many things that can be explored here, from rocket trails to effect behavior (sparkles, flickering, dropoff, size, colors). I think this could be a great gateway to canvas / particles for beginners, as it's super easy to get started but there are endless possibilities to iterate 🎉

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 31/05/2025

Dabbling in fireworks, inspired by @joshwcomeau.com's Whimsy landing page. He does a _lot_ more in his implementation than I do here, but it's a very fun thing to explore!

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 19/05/2025

Published a new interactive blog post on tab roving, a nice little technique for making grids and other element groups more accessible for keyboard navigation! Check it out: nik.digital/posts/tab-roving

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Nik Gadermann @nik.digital · 19/12/2024

Working on a new post for my blog launch. This one will have some fun widgets!

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