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Action Intent Links | Bluesky Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

Bluesky really do have great integrations. (AT Proto is mint!) I needed a quick and easy share on Bsky widget, and they have this no-nonsense approach which took about 2 minutes to implement: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

Rather excited to see what happens with Payload and Figma. I'm building my site on Payload and it's absolutely lovely to work with.

Pokémon Cards CSS Holographic Effect An exploration of what's possible with CSS for Pokemon Cards, simeydotme (Simon Goellner)

Daily inspiration:

CSS Shiny Pokémon cards: poke-holo.simey.me

I was just wishing last week that I could use nth indexing in CSS so it is amazing to see sibling-index and sibling count coming. Aaaaaand it can be used in calc()... Chef's kiss!!

It's going to be interesting watching what happens next month when European Accessibility Act (EAA) comes into effect and businesses (ecommerce and banks within EU) are required to comply with WCAG 2.x.

If there is no culture of accessible consideration within an organisation, then often the development team don't have the time to ensure accessibility, they likely have other priorities and focus. Change comes from the top.

With all the talk about a certain product having dreadful accessibility, it's important that as engineers we remember that semantic HTML is inherently accessible, so teams are often working away from A11y commit by commit.

It would be really useful (for my very specific and uncommon case 🫣) to be able to use CSS' 'n' value within a calc().

I found an interesting discussion on the CSSWG about it as a proposal. github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

The return of Webrings was not on my 2025 Bingo list.

Anything that promotes Syndication over Aggregation is in the best interests of everyone ❤️

Really enjoying Blue Prince, it’s one of the best couch coop games we have played since It Takes Two. www.blueprincegame.com

It must be Friday. I have 1 out of 100 components that for whatever reason does not want to work with CSS Modules in a Next app... Storybook (which inherits its config from Next works perfectly 🙄)

Not sure if related, but I haven't had a coffee this afternoon...

I found something I considered impossible but decided to see if ChatGPT could find a way around it, and it spent an hour making things up...

LLMs just cannot bring themselves to say "it's not possible" or "I don't know" can they, even when prompted to.

The carbon footprint of that is wild.

VERT.sh — Free, fast, and awesome file convert With VERT you can quickly convert any image, video and audio file. No ads, no tracking, open source, and all processing (other than video) is done on your device.

vert.sh

Self-hostable Web Assembly powered file converter that runs in the browser

You love to see it!

Source: Creating a list of links in a very popular note-taking app and watching it hallucinate Titles. (the scary thing here are some of the generated titles included names of the site engineers (which are not public, nor do they exist in the source code...)

At times, AI "assistance" is like looking after a young niece or nephew.

They try so hard to help out but ultimately end up making a mess on the floor, and after they have gone you have to clean up and finish the task yourself.

As someone that didn't play the Last Of Us Part 2, I was not ready for last nights episode (neither the action or the drama).

I can't wait to see where this goes.

Spending my weekend debugging the myth of "self-documented code". It's the Loch Ness Monster of the development world. Even with my magnifying glass, it remains unseen.

Just a picture of Beans to brighten your morning.

Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library

This is as smooth as butter. The art direction and storytelling is unbelievably good too. Top stuff.

RFC: Deployment Adapters API · vercel next.js · Discussion #77740 To ensure Next.js can be deployed anywhere, including severless platforms with custom requirements, we are planning to add deployment adapters. Background Next.js has supported self-hosting since 2...

RFC: Deployment Adapters API

We are planning to support adapters to deploy Next.js to any provider.

github.com/vercel/next....

GitHub - roryashfordbentley/belayer: install and manage UI components from a remote GitHub repository. install and manage UI components from a remote GitHub repository. - roryashfordbentley/belayer

Woken up by the cats at 5 AM... Built a CLI. 🚀

Belayer – a proof-of-concept component installer that pulls components from any GitHub repo straight into your project.

Modify, adapt, and make them yours:
github.com/roryashfordb...

Links, mentions, and rich text | Bluesky Posts in Bluesky use rich text to handle links, mentions, and other kinds of decorated text.

Having some fun this morning extrapolating facets from Bluesky posts. To be fair the ATProto RichText package does all the hard work: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

YouTube video by Second Wind The Making of Animal Well | Documentary

Lets turn this into a thread of inspiring Inde game documentaries.. Next up is the recent Animal Well documentary with Billy Basso: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tffo...

YouTube video by Noclip The Making of Outer Wilds - Documentary

I stayed up way past bedtime watching this last night.

Knowing how much simulation is happening in realtime absolutely blows my mind.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbY0...

Whoa! 10kg is an epic achievement and must have taken some right will power!! Noice one bruvva!!!

That’s more sane than my solution…rim-raffin’ the project and pulling it down fresh 😅

Ever banged your head a gainst a wall because you changed the capitalisation of a Typescript file on MacOS only for VScode to throw an error due to MacOS case insensitivity?

Turns out theres a fix and I wish I knew weeks ago...

In VSCode:

cmd+shift+p > Typescript:Restart TS Server.

10 Year Evolution: Spotify Apps Evolution of the Spotify Apps   Can you believe it? It's been 10 years since the Spotify Community was launched on February 8, 2012. Time flies when we're having fun in the Community!       You can re...

10 Years of Spotify's app design evolution.

I think it peaked in 2014 -2017.

community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-...