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@amykw.bsky.social

Web Dev in Plymouth, UK. Cross stitch, embroidery, code and DDO. My passion project: https://stitchtrove.com

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Invoker Commands API - Web APIs | MDN The Invoker Commands API provides a way to declaratively assign behaviors to buttons, allowing control of interactive elements when the button is enacted (clicked or invoked via a keypress, such as th...

Today I learned about Invoker Commands.

Our site has issues with buttons not working on newly rendered components (load more functionality, initial page load is fine) and this has been recommended as a fix.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

06.06.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This looks great! Thanks for the discount

02.06.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been feeling burnout slowly creeping in for the past two weeks.

I donโ€™t have capacity to take a week off so Iโ€™m trying to dedicate a little time to my personal projects.

Yesterday I set up discord notifications for automated project backups and built a data filter feature users keep asking for.

30.05.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I replied with a cost breakdown of domain, hosting and app store fees.

Explained what would be required from a tech-point and recommended some services.

Also offered to throw together an mvp for her this weekend as I fully support her cause and what she's trying to achieve โค๏ธ

24.04.2025 09:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would love to see that person try to navigate the admin of launching, hosting and getting app store approval for a bunch of code they didn't write and don't know how to run.

24.04.2025 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This morning a non-techie friend posted on fb that they wanted to launch a free info app but had no idea where to start or what the costs involved are.

Someone replied with "get ChatGPT to do it".

OK but then what? How does a non-technical person make use of code they already don't understand?

24.04.2025 09:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A close up of a pencil drawing of a bee on white linen fabric. The bees head has some small embroidery stitches and a loose needle and thread lie next to it.

A close up of a pencil drawing of a bee on white linen fabric. The bees head has some small embroidery stitches and a loose needle and thread lie next to it.

Started a new embroidery today after a few weeks of not stitching

11.04.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

these look great!

11.04.2025 10:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same, I like this approach.

11.04.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm interested to hear what other development teams do when they finish all tickets in a sprint early?

Do you bring more tickets in and risk throwing off flow and estimates?

Or do you accept all planned works been done and use the remaining time on training?

11.04.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Calm water and clear blue sky

Calm water and clear blue sky

Beautiful day means an amazing view from the gym this lunch time โ˜€๏ธ

07.04.2025 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot of a simple un-styled web page that features a basic file upload field, a thumbnail of the Mickey 17 movie poster that has been uploaded, the extracted text and the detected film name.

A screenshot of a simple un-styled web page that features a basic file upload field, a thumbnail of the Mickey 17 movie poster that has been uploaded, the extracted text and the detected film name.

Todays progress and I have successfully returned a film name from an image ๐Ÿฅณ

Next steps is testing other film posters and adding more keywords to exclude to reduce the amount of API calls I'm making.

26.03.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This week we have a firebreak where we get to work on a project of our choice. I've chosen to explore extracting text from movie posters then hitting some APIs to return movie data.

Extracting text from images using OCR was easy but deciding whats useful in that text is proving not so easy ๐Ÿ˜…

25.03.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PHP Developer (mid-level) - Studio 24 Weโ€™re looking for someone to develop accessible, human-centred websites with a focus on PHP development, Laravel, Symfony, Craft CMS and WordPress

We're hiring for a new PHP Developer to join the team at Studio 24. We're passionate about building a web that works for everyone. If you'd like to work on projects with real impact with a friendly and supportive team see www.studio24.net/careers/php-... #jobs #PHP #accessibility

20.03.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This is so pretty! ๐Ÿ˜

18.03.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A head to waist portrait of a female Eredar character from World of Warcraft. She has dark red skin, long bright white hair which is tied into a high ponytail and her eyes are glowing an eerie green colour. The character has long tendrils which originate from behind her ears and large, thick horns growing from her forehead. Across her nose and cheeks are cracks in her skin which are also glowing the same eerie green as her eyes. She is dressed in burgundy robe with thick gold metal trims, down the length of the robe are glowing green runic symbols stitched into the fabric. She is casting a green and blue spell with her right hand and is looking at the viewer whilst licking her lips.

A head to waist portrait of a female Eredar character from World of Warcraft. She has dark red skin, long bright white hair which is tied into a high ponytail and her eyes are glowing an eerie green colour. The character has long tendrils which originate from behind her ears and large, thick horns growing from her forehead. Across her nose and cheeks are cracks in her skin which are also glowing the same eerie green as her eyes. She is dressed in burgundy robe with thick gold metal trims, down the length of the robe are glowing green runic symbols stitched into the fabric. She is casting a green and blue spell with her right hand and is looking at the viewer whilst licking her lips.

A portrait of a female character stood outside at night, there are tree branches and glowing stars behind her. The character has pale skin, large fluffy bat ears and long wavy hair, both are a medium grey colour. She has glowing yellow / orange eyes and her mouth is open showing her pointed fangs. She is dressed in a ruffled black dress with large puffy sleeves, there is a section of dark red lace in the middle of the bodice and a medium sized dark red bow around her neck.

A portrait of a female character stood outside at night, there are tree branches and glowing stars behind her. The character has pale skin, large fluffy bat ears and long wavy hair, both are a medium grey colour. She has glowing yellow / orange eyes and her mouth is open showing her pointed fangs. She is dressed in a ruffled black dress with large puffy sleeves, there is a section of dark red lace in the middle of the bodice and a medium sized dark red bow around her neck.

Fanart of High Inquisitor Whitemane from World of Warcraft, she is casting a holy magic spell stood in front of a golden shining window. The character has white hair, red eyes and is dress in a red and gold bodysuit. She has red makeup smeared from her eyes to her cheeks and is looking at the viewer with irritation.

Fanart of High Inquisitor Whitemane from World of Warcraft, she is casting a holy magic spell stood in front of a golden shining window. The character has white hair, red eyes and is dress in a red and gold bodysuit. She has red makeup smeared from her eyes to her cheeks and is looking at the viewer with irritation.

A digital portrait of a female Nightelf character from the World of Warcraft universe. She has dusky purple skin, bright glowing blue eyes and long white hair styled into a half up-do. The character is wearing an elaborate satin gown coloured purple and grey with silver metallic detailing. She is looking at the viewer and weaving strings of magical stars between her fingers.

A digital portrait of a female Nightelf character from the World of Warcraft universe. She has dusky purple skin, bright glowing blue eyes and long white hair styled into a half up-do. The character is wearing an elaborate satin gown coloured purple and grey with silver metallic detailing. She is looking at the viewer and weaving strings of magical stars between her fingers.

Today is my birthday! ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿฐ

A lovely gift would be for people to please reshare my artwork if you can!

09.03.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 86    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

yeah, I had the same thoughts, what if there's errors and it's not telling me ๐Ÿ˜‚

19.02.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

11 long minutes the commands took to run without giving any kind of feedback ๐Ÿ˜…

Havenโ€™t received any angry teams messages so Iโ€™m calling that a success!

19.02.2025 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sitting here incredibly anxious this morning as Iโ€™m running commands on a production database.

Its of course been tested thoroughly before today but itโ€™s unexpectedly taking a lot longer to run on the prod server ๐Ÿคž

19.02.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What Filament/Laravel media packages are people using?

We've been using the Curator package (which has been great) but a request has been made for directories and managing folder structures for organising our media, which Curator doesn't seem to support.

10.02.2025 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So cute! Love the colours

07.02.2025 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You Canโ€™t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

You canโ€™t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

๐Ÿ”— www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

05.02.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6207    ๐Ÿ” 2648    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 117    ๐Ÿ“Œ 397

A couple of months later and I realise this was a poor tech choice on my part.

Currently attempting to upgrade from Remix.js v2 to React Router v7 and the entire process is proving painful.

06.02.2025 09:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A hand embroidered fly agaric mushroom on plain white cotton fabric in a 4 inch wooden hoop. The cap is a mix of bright red and orange threads dotted with white French knots for texture.

A hand embroidered fly agaric mushroom on plain white cotton fabric in a 4 inch wooden hoop. The cap is a mix of bright red and orange threads dotted with white French knots for texture.

First finished craft piece of the year.

Normally a cross stitcher but wanted to give thread painting a try, there will definitely be more of this coming up!

05.02.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've been offline since last Wednesday and now have quite a backlog of tech news to catch up on. Some really exciting stuff coming out of Laracon.

05.02.2025 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

those stitches are so neat omg

29.01.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Amazon.co.uk

For embroidery I absolutely recommend this book by Emillie Ferris, it comes with traceable patterns and I've learnt so much. Even if you don't stitch anything from it, its a beautiful book www.amazon.co.uk/Paint-Thread...

29.01.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

omg! amazing work

28.01.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Managed to get my new self-hosted Ghost cms instance up and running yesterday, the editor is just so nice to use.

Think I may eventually use it headless with an 11ty frontend.

27.01.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So pretty! If not full coverage, this would work well on a dyed fabric I think.

25.01.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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