✨ I just published a new blog post about a nifty lil’ animation technique: sprites! Sprites are used all the time in video games, but they’re less common on the web. We do have the tools to manage it in CSS, but there’s a gotcha. In this post, I share some of the cool use cases I’ve found:

I hate that every community is now wrapped in Discord, so much lost information buried. Bring back forums.

Absolute banger this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcrN...

Took a peppermint tablet (I'm getting old) for my stomach, now whenever I drink all I taste is peppermint. Ruined my tea.

Started spinning up the new site for my (solo) agency, using @craftcms.com headless and @astro.build, and it is bliss. Tiny react islands where I want some more complex rest just straight up Astro goodness.

I'm fuelled by Coffee and Pokémon cards these days.

In Brum tonight to see Honey Revenge and Rain City Drive. Sneaky trip to the Lego shop on the way. Long week, needed break!

Seeing people rebuilding their site - it's on my list but as with everything else I'm my worst judge and need to find the time!

Astro 5.17 is now available! Move the dev toolbar, partition your cookies (we had to look it up too, no worries) and create the images of your dreams with cool new optimization options.

Craft 5.9 is here, bringing new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security. #CraftCMS craftcms.com/blog/craft-5...

Really nice piece on iconography and user interfaces. App designers should take a note on this, the "everything needs an icon" is unbearable both for usability and development honestly.

Sending all my love to any Americans out there who don't stand for this shit. Fuck ICE. My heart breaks more each day.

My gosh, I need this Lego set. www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...

Merry Christmas you beauties.

It's that time of year again! Let's have a look at the deals we, and our much loved community are offering this year. It's the most important time of year for independents, so let's give them our support 💛 piccalil.li/links/black-...

Tickets bought. Let's go!

Spending my weekend playing Pokémon cards, playing Pokémon Z-A, and building warhammer. Mate I’m so cool. Younger me would be so jealous.

I bought this so you should too. Added to the backlog!

It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone! The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it. Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...

Anyone got any good alternatives to Notion? I use it mostly for sharing client information and the odd kanban, but I keep finding it really messy to organise/find information.

Fuck, my site isn't compiling? What the hell did I do? How have I broken something? Shit! Shit!... 1 hour later… Oh, there's a random "F" in the config.

Spent the whole weekend working on a project for an agency that the developer just walked out on right before the deadline. Bloody tired, but this was not a good way to leave the site.

Moving off Next.js to Astro for new work, but man those legacy sites are just staring at me, feel like my old work is judging me.

This new macOS update is pure dog shit init.

Accidentally set my site to noindex for a month, ouch.

Think I'm finally covering from a week-long wedding. How do I code again?

Look mum, I designed* an unhinged conference website: webdevconf.com Also, buy tickets to the conference please. * and by designed, I mean I threw up on a Figma file and @alexolder.com interpreted that into this beautiful monstrosity

A bit late in life, but, I passed me bloody driving test.

Oh my gosh, Sublime Text now lets me put the sidebar on the right. Switching back.

Spent the evening last night finishing off the Lego Brad-dur. This thing is bloody huge.

Spent a weekend celebrating my birthday to now be hit by a cold. Boo.

Improving the blog with a new code segment which can switch language and copy to clipboard.

Bring back the `<marquee>` element.

Disappointing how bad this is.

Hope everyone had a lovely long weekend, I ended up playing Board Games, Magic The Gathering, and overloading on food. Needless to say, slow start today!

Wrote a little bit of a write up on how to access the new CKEditor options for Longform Content in @craftcms.com. Any questions let me know! #craftcms #headless #graphql https://jackwhiting.co.uk/posts/parsing-ckeditor-longform-content-in-craft-cms-with-graphql

Booked tickets to go see modernlove. on my birthday this month. Let's go!

Cheers #AllDayHey fam! It was an honour speaking. I mentioned a coupon code for complete-css.com Use ALLDAYHEY for 30% off

Awesome day today. Thanks @heypresents.com. Gotta jet home for the little one but see you next year !

@katiefenn.bsky.social whipping out a DJ booth for this talk. #AllDayHey

Andy covering the core skills we all take for granted (or ignore). Being a better person makes you a better developer. #AllDayHey

Luke resonating with my journey along the way. I loved leadership but it was an odd transition. #AllDayHey

Great set of morning talks. Now as is tradition MEATLiquor for lunch. #AllDayHey

What if Images were hidden by default, and replaced with only the alt text ? How would this change the web? #AllDayHey

Oh no. AI has invaded @philhawksworth.dev #AllDayHey

Happy @heypresents.com day!

Fixes the issues I was having last week. Awesome!

Well this is great news!

Landing in Leeds around 7:30/8pm tonight for @heypresents.com tomorrow. Bloody excited!

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