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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 08/03/2026

A toucan landing in a tree in my backyard was not on my bingo card for 2026.

Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 11/08/2025

Bought a sketchbook and decided to put it to the left of my keyboard to see if anything came of it. Full success! Doodled up these under-desk hook designs until I had one I liked, revised the shape in Illustrator, extruded in Fusion, and 3D printed and mounted within an hour.

A photo of a sketchbook with rough ideation drawings of a headphone and cord hook design to mount under a desk. Sitting on top of the sketchbook is: a pencil, pens, digital calipers, a 2D printed iteration of the design vector, and the final 3D printed hook ready for mounting

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 31/05/2025

Surprising Saturday discovery: Bad Religion's The New America album aged really well (was always my least favorite since it came out).

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natemoore on elm street 👻 @natemoo.re · 10/05/2025

Going to let you in on a lil secret: island architecture is a hook for new Astro users, but it’s not why devs stay. The client framework support was largely a consequence of good abstractions. After using Astro, you realize what a relief it is to work *with* the grain of the web again.

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 22/03/2025

Nothing like starting a full personal site rebuild to justify continuing to not finish any blog posts. Sticking with Astro + Vue though, maybe the first rebuild not driven by adopting some new framework.

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Steve Gardner @ste.vg · 28/02/2025

With a few tiny base64 images and some mix-blend-modes you can get a pretty convincing shader looking effects with just HTML and CSS! codepen.io/ste-vg/pen/B...

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 14/02/2025

Haven't written a blog post in a bit, lots of false starts, but nothing ready yet. However, I was rereading an old one and thought, "Hey! Not half bad!" which is not feedback I'm often inclined to give myself. Anyway, from the archives, here's Digital Entropy andrewwalpole.com/blog/digital...

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Digital Entropy

What eats at our code? A quick explorative rambling of why we have to maintain and invest in all code and digital systems.

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 11/11/2024

Hey I'm really excited to share my first ever proper academic publication!!!! It's "Dialogues on Natural Code" — an essay that Dave Ackley and I wrote together I'd be really grateful if you could give it a read. I promise it's not boring Also it's a stage play dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Dialogues on Natural Code | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 08/11/2024

Two-factor auth, except the second factor is you whispering the 6 digit code under your breath as it comes through on your phone.

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 07/11/2024

Over on X they’re laughing at the folks who were principled enough to leave. “They’ll be back, they always come back.” I really hope we don’t prove them right this time.

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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com · 07/11/2024

folks, this guy (me) is still looking for his (my) next opportunity. He (I) has a solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, & JavaScript. We (wait) work on design systems, web apps, & accessible interfaces, also one of us is a tech writer! (something's wrong) Consider us! (I'm only one person)

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 06/11/2024

make sure you check out this week's t2sday update. here's a still from it www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOui...

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 06/11/2024

Astro + (Vue/Svelte/React/Other/None) is deployable to a lot of hosts. And while choosing a framework for sites and apps is usually a big "it depends" conversation, in my experience, Astro supports the major scenarios and scopes you'd ever come across. docs.astro.build/en/guides/de...

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Deploy your Astro Site

How to deploy your Astro site to the web.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 06/11/2024

y'know astro is better than next.js because it doesn't dump a cargo plane's worth of js on every page netlify is far better too

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 28/10/2024

📍Pinning a starter pack for folks moving over from tech twitter bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 06/11/2024

I declare today the doomscrollstice, the longest doomscrolling day of the year.

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Mykal Machon @mykalmachon.com · 03/11/2024

good intro on durable Redis and why it's so dang good at adding just a *teensy* bit of persistent state to your apps.

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 02/11/2024

Just put up some notes and a bit of an intro to using Durable Redis as a primary database solution for small projects. Having just gotten done using it on a medium-sized project, I think it's an excellent choice for small/medium projects and ideas. www.andrewwalpole.com/blog/build-y...

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Build Your Next App with Durable Redis

Capability delivered through simplicity is one of my favorite features of tech. Digging into using durable redis to power a web-application, I found that it hits a perfect sweet spot of being easy to ...

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 31/10/2024

The Rat Run sudoku series continues to delight in phase 2! If you're looking for a set of fun puzzles it doesn't get much better than this. Highly recommend giving it a go from the beginning! And all the solves through #11 are up on the CTC YouTube channel. logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...

A screenshot of the list of the puzzles in the rat run series.

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 22/10/2024

Weighing in on the masonry/grid debate. Masonry is a specific grid sub-type that we don't have the primitive props to make work. Either give us the primitives or deal with higher-order abstractions by creating their own CSS thing.

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 25/06/2023

Chores are done, relaxing time! 🍻

A first-person viewpoint of sitting outside on a sunny day. The main focus point is a held-up Corona Familiar beer bottle with blurred out palm trees, part of an umbrella and blue sky in the background.

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 22/06/2023

Supporting iOS Safari 14.x in production is holding back so many features and capabilities. Who's got a good case or data to raise the lowest supported version bar?

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 22/06/2023

This past weekend I cleaned my AC evaporator coil for the first time ever. It took almost 3 hours just to get access to it, and I almost gave up. It's was absolutely worth it though; removed over a 1/2 inch of solid dust and gunk and the AC runs better than ever.

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 21/06/2023

My COVID-splurge-purchase tennis practice net still holds up a few years later.

A square tennis practice net nestled in the corner of a residential driveway amongst a neglected overgrown landscape.

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 20/06/2023

I'm amazed by how many web devs I continue to come across that either haven't heard about or don't actively use CSS Grid. Spread the word: grid is good!

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Andrew Walpole @walpolea.andrewwalpole.com · 18/06/2023

Backyard relaxing on a sunny Father's day. Is this how this app works?

A photo of blue sky, only slightly obscured by a few palm tree leaves.

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