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David Bushell ๐Ÿฅ

@dbushell.com.bsky.social

โš“ https://dbushell.com Freelance Designer, Web Developer, Blogger, UK

473 Followers  |  111 Following  |  267 Posts  |  Joined: 28.07.2023  |  1.7762

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noted: is the Proton dream dead?
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@proton.me privacy and security compromised by slopware and LLM garbage ๐Ÿ˜”

04.08.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in an orange suit and polka dot shirt is talking about nerd alert . Alt: Austin Power "Nerd alert!"

that's delightfully nerdy!

03.08.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm adopting a new 1 in 1 out rule for buying domains

I can no longer buy until one expires or I publish to it

03.08.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what is this magic! RSS in email? ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

03.08.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The first rule of RSS Club is: you tell everyone about RSS Club

dbushell.com/rss.xml

03.08.2025 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

as a paying Proton customer you are spot on!

Not the first time they've pushed AI tripe either, this nonsense is *why* I left their competitors ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

03.08.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

treat him to a bacardi breezer

(please don't lol)

03.08.2025 09:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Proton losing masses of good will and credibility with this slop

also... "Open source" โ€” where is the source @proton.me ? Where is the source!

bsky.app/profile/prot...

03.08.2025 09:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The React Blog Post: Reflections and Reactions

reading: "The React Blog Post: Reflections and Reactions" mbrizic.com/blog/react-ii/

โ€” excellent rebuttal (I wouldn't recommend suffering the YouTube video in question)

02.08.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
We Care About Your Privacy
We, and our 219 partners use cookies and similar

We Care About Your Privacy We, and our 219 partners use cookies and similar

We and the boys

02.08.2025 05:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hate winter too cold, I hate summer too hot, I hate autumn too wet, spring is ok :)

02.08.2025 05:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ooh this looks fancy! ๐Ÿ‘€

01.08.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ha no, I'm just wrote the wrong date yesterday and then my markdown and build scripts got messed up, it's just easier to blog with the wrong date and let the weekend fix it ๐Ÿคฆ

01.08.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Composable Adopted Stylesheets The one where I import CSS into the shadow DOM

blogged: Composable Adopted Stylesheets
dbushell.com/2025/08/02/c...

โ€” currently blogged from the future, ignore the date! ๐Ÿ˜…

01.08.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
samwho.dev RSS feed in my bespoke RSS reader

samwho.dev RSS feed in my bespoke RSS reader

thanks! I was literally looking for your RSS feed a last week ๐Ÿ˜†

looking good, but I'll have to adapt my <h1> detection! definitely a click-through blog anyway

01.08.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mid-Year Online Safety Update The UK Online Safety Act deadline has arrived, requiring websites to implement โ€œhighly effective age assuranceโ€ for people looking to access material intended for adults.A number of large sites have r...

"Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act"

www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/15...

01.08.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Yorkshire Air Ambulance Site-Speed Optimisation
YouTube video by Harry Roberts Yorkshire Air Ambulance Site-Speed Optimisation

watching @csswizardry.com drop knowledge so fast this 40 mins is gonna take an afternoon with all the pausing and note taking ๐Ÿ˜…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=da7h...

01.08.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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1KB JS Numbers Station Code Golf is the art/science of creating wonderful little demos in an artificially constrained environment. This year the js1024 competition was looking for entries with the theme of "Creepy". I am n...

An extremely cool ping/pong of ideas teasing out what good browsers can do with almost no code in these posts:

shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07...

dbushell.com/2025/07/26/t...

31.07.2025 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thanks!

I've seen this one suggested. one downside is that the class isn't directly accessible, for whatever that's worth.

and some formatters will add an extra level of indentation (which is a very minor thing guaranteed to cause outrage!)

01.08.2025 04:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nooo! never go beyond 1x! I reacclimatized to 1x and I swear I started sleeping better ๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ

01.08.2025 04:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

disaster, I'm out of fresh podcasts!

31.07.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next.js Web Component Used by some of the world's largest companies, <next-js> enables you to create high-quality web applications with the power of web components....

I'd forgotten, I turned this into a web component to expedite Time To First Error
codepen.io/dbushell/ful...

31.07.2025 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anatomy of a Web Component The one where I present what Iโ€™ve learnt

blogged: Anatomy of a Web Component

dbushell.com/2025/08/01/a...

โ€” accidentally hit publish early so I guess we're proofreading together!

31.07.2025 12:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is my annual reminder that I have a stand up desk

I just extended it an multiple cables were ripped out of various ports ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

31.07.2025 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

woah that's fancy!

30.07.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've since updated to latest versions and it's runs without error

30.07.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ah sorry I've lost the logs ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I fix it by purging `node_modules` and updating to versions copied from a fresh `sv create`

the error was "Unexpected token" linking to:
svelte.dev/docs/svelte/...
the code referenced was literally just an `import Component` statement ๐Ÿคท

30.07.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

updated deps on a SvelteKit project I made two months about and it's completely bricked ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

30.07.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Notes โ€“ 06:35 Wed 30 Jul 2025 Notes โ€“ 06:35 Wed 30 Jul 2025

noted: Bunny WAF mishap dbushell.com/notes/2025-0...

โ€” no more 403 errors on my site? ๐Ÿ™ I'll pay more attention

30.07.2025 06:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Summer 2024: Self-Hosted Update The one where I build a mini PC

I have 3 N100 devices. Minisforum S100 was trash, Beelink EQ12 is good, and I found a N100 mini ITX motherboard I built on which is awesome dbushell.com/2024/07/30/s...

there's a wide range in quality especially around thermals, bit of a mine field trying to sort through the trash

29.07.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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