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maar paul het is zo ongemakkelijk om steeds om die zon heen te moeten navigeren. 😩 <smallprint>heeft er een chromosphere filter bij geritseld</smallprint>

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 18h

Oh no, but that’s what I bought it for!

Telescope with don’t point at the sun warning card.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 18h

It’s bleak. For what it’s worth, I’m seeing it in SDK sales as well. Around a 50% drop from start of 2026 until August, a 90% drop this month. Website traffic is down dramatically and I don’t feel like writing any new tutorials to feed the LLMs. It’s triggering an identity crisis.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 29/09/2026

The new FilePond v5 landing page is shaping up to become quite a funky art celebration.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 29/09/2026

The spring configuration seems to propagate correctly through the <file-pond> subtree. 👨‍🔬🍮

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 28/09/2026

This site generates an abstract artwork using the commits and files in a GitHub repo. This is FilePond v4. www.habibicode.org/artrepo

black and white dots and stripes at various angles.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 16/09/2026

by this point I long back to the "it doesn't work" issues.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 14/09/2026

I'd day <rich-search> but that's mostly because I don't like the 2 dashes. Hope the custom element is not doing any caching! ;)

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 14/09/2026

Missed this before but rich input imho indicates rich text 🤷‍♂️ If it’s intended for searching then I’d keep “search” in there.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 10/09/2026

this tab on npm must hold the record for longest beta ever.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 03/09/2026

It’s all hyperscale or go home :/

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 03/09/2026

I spent the past two days cleaning up and improving the cropguide.io landing page. I've replaced the hero illustrations with photos, added a video that shows the editor (it blends in the page), and the live demo is now more to the point. Thanks @kilianvalkhof.com and @hidde.blog for the feedback.

screenshot of the landing page showing the title "help your users upload better photos"

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 01/09/2026

spot on! no fun owning delicate glassware when you have young children :)

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 01/09/2026

It's _this_ easy to add CropGuide to a website. As a test I opened Bluesky and copy pasted the cropguide.io script to my Chrome developer console and then selected an image to post. 😅 It just works! 🪄

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 01/09/2026

When i was still drawing with charcoal

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 31/08/2026

No worries! I appreciate the feedback, and I think you’re right, having a bit more makes it more intentional. Thanks! :)

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 31/08/2026

I’d love it if they’d put equal effort in to not stealing other people’s work.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 31/08/2026

This is from before LLMs. I wanted to focus on just having text, no shenanigans, but it turned out to be a bit plain. Combined with the banner painting (which I should do more often) these smudges add an analogue touch that I like.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 31/08/2026

Was using transform (for the smudges in your other reply ;)) I couldn't find answers with a search engine. Was thinking maybe `background-size` behaves the same as scale, but MDN indicated no. Then I wondered if maybe there's some obscure technique I didn't know of, so searched with LLM.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 31/08/2026

Me: "Hey LLM, can we flip a background-image without using CSS transform?" LLM: "Yes. I'm programmed to make you a happy camper so I will first pretend there is a solution before telling you there is no solution."

The practical CSS-only option without transform is background-size with a negative dimension:

CSS
.element {
background-image: url("image.jpg"); background-size: -100% 100%;
}

Unfortunately, negative background-size values are invalid CSS, so that doesn't work.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 31/08/2026

CropGuide now offers a free tier. Copy paste the CropGuide <script> tag to your webpage and now your <input type="file"/> automatically opens a client-side image editor to crop images before upload. pqina.nl/blog/crop-im...

pqina.nl

Crop Images Before Upload With JavaScript

In this 3 minute tutorial we use CropGuide, a JavaScript image cropper, to crop images before they’re uploaded to our server without making any changes to existing file upload code.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 29/08/2026

That is crazy! congrats! 👏

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 29/08/2026

I’ve been collecting the game boxes of the games I used to design levels for as a hobby. I’ve yet to find DOOM for a good price, but a month ago I finally found a Quake 2 box that looked great. It arrived by mail today, turns out the seller didn’t bother to package it properly. Such a waste :(

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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My Hollywood comedy podcast SEE YOU IN HELL is currently on hiatus, but here are a few script pages from a recent episode that dealt with AI in Hollywood as they sum up my thoughts on the matter better than I'm usually able to express them in my social posts:

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 27/08/2026

FilePond v5 + Spring powered HTML <dialog> + Unsplash source + Custom masonry grid fallback + BlurHash 🔥 Now some more tinkering with CSS to get everything just right 👌

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 27/08/2026

Perhaps disable Twitter DMs? If people really want to reach out they'll find you.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 26/08/2026

Just spent 4 hours tinkering with CSS to make the open animation of a dialog look nicer. I'm so far removed from agentic coding that I think i'll never be able work in the industry again.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 26/08/2026

that thing is a real pain in the butt

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 26/08/2026

At this point in time it’s markdown files in Zed. I try to keep everything as plain as possible.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 26/08/2026

Amin Dhouib didn't even bother to respond. 🤷‍♂️ github.com/DevinoSoluti...

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 20/08/2026

New game mode: kindly ask demons to pay for staying overnight in the UAC facilities

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 20/08/2026

I was expecting so much more feedback or feature requests, but apart from the occasional (and heartwarming) “thank you for this” it very much seems that people just don’t use contact forms on these kinda of services at all.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 20/08/2026

Haha :D There’s lots with just “edit this video”. Or people that don’t understand that the site is not sending a video feed of them working with it right to my screen, so they’ll ask a question about what they’re looking at. And of course, everyone’s favorite: “it doesn’t work” without context.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 19/08/2026

zero effort phishing attempt phisher probably got frustrated trying to get the sendgrid HTML template to render correctly on every email client

email subject: S⁣e⁣n⁣d⁣g⁣r⁣i⁣d/⁣S⁣u⁣s⁣p⁣e⁣n⁣s⁣i⁣o⁣n⁣ ⁣N⁣o⁣t⁣I⁣c⁣e email body: v⁣⁣i⁣e⁣w i⁣n d⁣a⁣s⁣h⁣b⁣o⁣a⁣r⁣d b⁣e⁣l⁣o⁣w⁣:

plain link to share.google

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 19/08/2026

it uses a video element as a texture

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 19/08/2026

the color beige is not in my training data

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 19/08/2026

I've sent back this horrendous drawing

a horrendous drawing of a man sitting on a city road

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 19/08/2026

The edit.video contact form is now also treated as a prompt input box. 🫠 The emoji sequence makes it seem like the LLM prompt begins with a Mortal Kombat fatality.

*Ultra-realistic DSLR portrait, 8K UHD, a handsome young man
with fair skin, soft black textured same hairstyle, sharp jawline, and a calm expression, sitting stylishly on a street city road, head slightly very little up. Wavy messy dark texture hair, He wears an oversized beige t shirt, slim black cropped jeans, chunky white sneakers, a silver wristwatch, and silver rings, with black sunglasses placed beside him on the road.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 18/08/2026

I do wonder about the impact on open source, will people care, or will they just yolo npm install these packages. More distopian but maybe instead of people I should be asking if LLMs will care :/

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 18/08/2026

this, 100%. it's all about cutting corners. all the gains with zero effort.

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 18/08/2026

This "company" generated an "open source" file upload library that looks suspiciously similar to Uppy and is now spamming FilePond repositories with backlinks. 🔥☕️🐶 - This is fine github.com/DevinoSoluti...

Ugh, that's super annoying when a component silently bloats your files like that. I've run into similar headaches with in-browser image processing. You might want to check out BLANK - it focuses purely on reliable, direct uploads to cloud storage, so you wouldn't have these kinds of unexpected image transformation side effects.

Ugh, listener leaks are the worst to debug, especially with unmounts. I've definitely hit similar issues with other libraries before. If you're open to alternatives, I've been using Upup lately and it's been rock solid for React projects, handling all its lifecycle cleanups internally without these kinds of headaches. You can check it out at BLANK

Ugh, dealing with plugin conflicts like that can be super frustrating when you're just trying to get a specific Ul to work. I ran into similar issues trying to combine different preview behaviors with other libraries, which is why I ended up using Upup; it handles image previews and custom poster-like displays pretty seamlessly without needing to juggle multiple plugins. You might find its built-in preview options give you the flexibility you need without the CSS headaches:
BLANK

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 14/08/2026

AFAIK instead of randomly choosing a token the randomness is generated upfront so for each token the random choice is fixed, I wonder if it (apart from watermarking) has any impact at all.

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