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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 26/09/2026

Just finished Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. Great game. Super smooth movement and combat. Mostly linear and level-based, but with some satisfying backtracking as you gain new skills.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 17/09/2026

This has to be one of the most diabolically bad interfaces I've ever seen lol. No qwerty, both cases and numbers all in a single line, and you can't hold the button to repeat up/down

Interface for entering a wifi password on a SkyQ box

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 13/09/2026

One of the few proposals for funding OSS that feels like it could actually work

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 13/11/2024

When the license grants you free use of the software without restriction: haha fuck yes! When the license provides the software as-is, without warranty of any kind: what the fuck, this fucking sucks!!

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 29/08/2026

It's wild how good phones are at macro shots these days

Macro shot of a grasshopper taken with a Pixel 9a

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 23/08/2026

I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers. codepen.io/editor/chris...

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 23/08/2026

If you're going for a hydration build, this is OP

A bottle of lime and mint cordial by Bottle Green. The bottle is tall and tapered with green glass

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 01/08/2026

Gorgeous day for some birding along the coast

A rocky coast set against blue skies and whispy clouds. In the distance are some buildings. One of the buildings is round with a conical roof

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 14/07/2026

Very excited that I just saw a hummingbird hawk moth for the first time

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 12/07/2026

Don't know what level of Brit Struggling With Heat I'm on, but I had a fan pointed at me for so long yday I got chapped lips

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 08/07/2026

Vulfpeck gig tonight. Hyped!

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 27/06/2026

Why didn't anyone tell me Talking Heads got the funk. Speaking in Tongues is groovy as hell

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 25/06/2026

🤯 Just encountered one of the wildest bugs of my career: A html page, containing a script tag, containing a "<!--" in a string, alongside a JS comment containing "<script>" It puts the html parser into a weird state which swallows all subsequent html into an unclosed comment

```html
<script>
const foo = "<!--"
// <script>
</script>
<div>this disappears</div>
```

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 24/06/2026

This an excellent piece. Wonderfully written and full of compelling arguments. Too much critique is weak and reflexive. Which is precisely the opposite of what is needed. I highly recommend setting aside some time to read it

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 22/06/2026

I've always disliked that the default for CSS animations is to specify in terms of time (transition-duration) and distance (translateX/Y). Since duration is typically fixed (eg 100ms), element dimensions change speed of movement. Doubling element size means doubling speed

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 15/06/2026

Not my finest presentation, but tasty nonetheless

Noodles in a coconut sauce, served with pak choi, cucumber, a small amount of tofu. Topped with a hearty squeeze of lime, sesame seeds, crispy garlic, and crispy shallots

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 10/06/2026

What idiot called it "copying design trends from larger companies" and not "trickle down ergonomics"

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 10/06/2026

What idiot called it "copying design trends from larger companies" and not "trickle down ergonomics"

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 09/06/2026

Hot take: collapsible UI sections should mostly be reserved for things which are initially collapsed. Collapsing to avoid scrolling is slower than scrolling

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 08/06/2026

Made hummus for the first time

Tofu and chickpeas tossed in harissa paste and roasted. A cucumber, tomato, and coriander salad. Served on top of hummus flavoured with cumin and smoked paprika

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 05/06/2026

Spotify stop adding new moving/animated UI elements challenge: impossible

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 02/06/2026

For those that don't know. A super useful hidden feature

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 01/06/2026

First day of my on-call shift and I'm awoken by a 7am alert because the entire app was down and everything was on fire. Hopefully not a sign of the week to come 🫩

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 28/05/2026

Love to get a notification that my email address was involved in a breach for an American insurance company I've never used/heard of. I'm not American! Why do they have my data? We desperately need stronger laws around data brokerage

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 27/05/2026

Starting a new game. Played the first a few years back. This one apparently leans more metroidvania

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 25/05/2026

Absolutely loved this game. The art direction and colour palettes were sublime. The game loop was challenging without being unfair. Even the story (which I normally dislike in games) was well executed dealing with complex topics of with death, grief, acceptance

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Death Howl on Steam

Master the grid, defy death. Enter a grim Spirit Realm in this open-world deck builder. Craft lethal decks from 160+ cards, claim powerful Totems, and defeat foes in tactical grid combat. Fight as the...

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 19/05/2026

My tplink powerline adapter died today. Any recommendations for a replacement, or perhaps some mesh network hardware?

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 14/05/2026

Has me dreaming about Encarta 95 which hinted at a future world of rich hypermedia that never quite came to be

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 10/05/2026

Building a little companion app for my piano practice. I find it hard to step outside of myself and analyse my timing/dynamics etc. So the goal is to have a super tight workflow where recording and segmenting takes is automatic and playback is as fast/easy as possible

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 10/05/2026

I will never tire of bluebell season

My dog, a whippet-collie cross, kneeling down in a bluebell meadow while chewing a stick

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 08/05/2026

Always hated how weak macos' window management is. I've finally bit the bullet and installed Aerospace, a tiling window manager github.com/nikitabobko/...

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GitHub - nikitabobko/AeroSpace: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS - nikitabobko/AeroSpace

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 02/05/2026

Freezing and grating ginger is a game changer. No wastage and a better result than chopping

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 28/04/2026

Goblin Mode achieved internally

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 25/04/2026

Look at this magnificent beast

My dog, a smooth collie/whippet cross, standing in a meadow of bluebells

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 23/04/2026

Experimenting with the new customizable select functionality today. Turns out Cally's <calendar-select-year> and <calendar-select-month> components will work out of the box! Codepen (chrome only for now): codepen.io/editor/Wicky...

A date picker component built with Cally using the new customizable select functionality in HTML/CSS to style the year/month select components

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 23/04/2026

@lukewarlow.dev do you know if ::picker(select) can be combined with CSS parts? Eg <my-select> /shadow-root <select part="select"></select> <my-select> In theory I think it should work - parts can be combined with pseudo elements. But it doesn't appear to ::part(select)::picker(select)

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Passle ☭ @passle.dev · 22/04/2026

Making a little finances app for myself. Finally got a usecase to try @wicky.nillia.ms 's Cally. Works very nicely with my dialog/contextmenu abstractions! www.npmjs.com/package/cally

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 21/04/2026

Hoping for some pears this year

Close up shot of the flowers on a pear tree

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