New blog post! Taking stock of the services we hosted our bits and bytes on in 2025, and our feeble attempts to de-USA-ify our tech and become more EU-based www.blackspike.com/blog/where-w... #hosting #webdev #based

New blog post! Taking stock of the services we hosted our bits and bytes on in 2025, and our feeble attempts to de-USA-ify our tech and become more EU-based www.blackspike.com/blog/where-w... #hosting #webdev #based

Our ✨ free ✨ @astro.build theme has been forked 40 times and has over 50 GitHub stars! github.com/blackspike/b... #astro

our logo concept for an #ai startup was rejected for being 'inappropriate' 😶

just remembered about the new ( #vue 3.5 ) useId() helper, which of course, works great in #nuxt vuejs.org/api/composit...

Updated our #Astro 5 to Nuxt 4 alpha post to use #Nuxt 4.0 🎉 www.blackspike.com/blog/convert...

Nuxt 4.0 is here at last … and it's all about DX ✨ 🗂️ app/ directory for better organisation 🔄 smarter data fetching ⚡️ a faster CLI with socket communication 🔧 improved TypeScript integration ... and a smooth upgrade experience. 💚 👉 nuxt.com/blog/v4

Any Astro devs curious about Nuxt 4? We've been itching to try out the alpha, so we recreated our blackspike Astro theme to Nuxt and blogged about the process. www.blackspike.com/blog/convert... #nuxt #nuxt4 #astro #withastro @nuxt.com @astro.build

@inertia.social hey thanks for the follow. great logo!

Any Astro devs curious about Nuxt 4? We've been itching to try out the alpha, so we recreated our blackspike Astro theme to Nuxt and blogged about the process. www.blackspike.com/blog/convert... #nuxt #nuxt4 #astro #withastro @nuxt.com @astro.build

woah! since when does alt+clicking a component name in #vscode #nuxt projects open the component file instead of components.d.ts?? Our biggest dx gripe since Nuxt v1 looks vanquished! Great work @nuxt.com 🎉

one more side project domain name released back into the wild. so long, mastodon-id dot party, and welcome mastodon-id.blackspike.com – a simple tool for finding your mastodon id. you could probably have guessed that. #domains

We made ourselves a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender. Grab it, and the .blend file here. Or don't. www.blackspike.com/blog/blacksp... #blender #wallpaper #design #3D #graphicDesign #blackspike

we've let another #vueJs side project's domain expire and moved it under a subdomain. Farewell pixelate.pictures, long live pixels.blackspike.com

tried out the experimental @astro.build 5.10 live collections by putting a pixelfed atom photostream on a blog felix.gripe/photos Uses the live feed #astro loader by @mk.gg - thanks Matt!

updated an image-heavy @astro.build website to 5.10 and turned on the new responsive images. They weren't kidding about the increased @netlify.com build times 😮 from 5 mins to 45 mins! Looks like they are cached but damn that took a while #astro

We made ourselves a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender. Grab it, and the .blend file here. Or don't. www.blackspike.com/blog/blacksp... #blender #wallpaper #design #3D #graphicDesign #blackspike

Should you get tasked with designing a #PPT deck, install the super handy and free #PowerPoint Toolbar – it places all the design tools right up in the toolbar. It's by Slidor, a french company cursed to walk the earth designing in PowerPoint for sins unknown www.slidor.agency/toolbar-powe...

Delighted to finally add our logo to the eduspots.org partner section. We've just rebuilt their #WordPress backend and server – it had picked up some digitial barnacles in the 8 or so years since we first designed and built the website. A brilliant initiative we are proud to support.

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has finally progressed us to the acceptance stage. So, we experimented with vibe-coding a #Nuxt 4 PWA using #Cursor, and blogged about the experience here www.blackspike.com/blog/vibe-co... TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has finally progressed us to the acceptance stage. So, we experimented with vibe-coding a #Nuxt 4 PWA using #Cursor, and blogged about the experience here www.blackspike.com/blog/vibe-co... TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

we have spent the weekend vibe-coding for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. we built a flashcard pwa for learning greek alphabet/numbers using @nuxt.com v4, @vuejs.org and @tailwindcss.com. we used cursor (also for the first time) and eleven labs to generate the audio.

we have spent the weekend vibe-coding for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. we built a flashcard pwa for learning greek alphabet/numbers using @nuxt.com v4, @vuejs.org and @tailwindcss.com. we used cursor (also for the first time) and eleven labs to generate the audio.

bad cross-browser things are happening to css again

If you use overscroll-behavior: contain, you can stop the browser back button from being invoked when scrolling too much to the left. Yessss! You should use this most of the time. #CSSDay

We keep a @codepen.io pen around for trying out all the new cursed #CSS features we hear about. We've just added **data- types** and a **css-if** function 🥴 Almost all the new features are latest-chrome only, concerningly codepen.io/blackspike/p... #webdev #html #cursed

We keep a @codepen.io pen around for trying out all the new cursed #CSS features we hear about. We've just added **data- types** and a **css-if** function 🥴 Almost all the new features are latest-chrome only, concerningly codepen.io/blackspike/p... #webdev #html #cursed

we are delighted to announce that nuxt v4 alpha ships TODAY! 🎉 ... and we're aiming for a stable release of v4 by the end of the month. (nuxt v5 will come later this year once nitro v3 is ready) 👉 you can read the full article at nuxt.com/blog/roadma...

What was new in Astro's merry, merry month of May? Our monthly roundup includes: 🧑‍🚀 Stay up-to-date with news from mission control ✨ Get inspired by the hottest (and weirdest) new Astro sites 🧑‍🎓 Sharpen your skills with the best new videos, posts and courses 🌲 Spruce up your site with new templates

Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs) voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

This is so random! and muuuuch needed A new Random namespace with 22 methods for working with randomness in JavaScript. proposal just hit Stage 1

✨ Add the closedby="any" attribute to your #HTML <dialog> elements for zero #JavaScript click-outside to close ✨ chrome/chredge only atm #webdev #tip 👉 demo astro-theme.blackspike.com

Just renewed the domain for spike.news ($22, @porkbun.com), our oldest and favouritist side project – since 2009! V7 is made with @nuxt.com, @vuejs.org and @supabase.com. #nuxt

great job on the SQL Server 2025 icon design! very nice 👏 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...

Behold! A second video in our pivot to video experiment. This one is about how we use AI to write single-use AppleScript macOS applications to encode web-ready video to optimised mp4, webm, and avif. youtu.be/kMqj5F2YwVQ #webdev #macos #applescript #ffmpeg #webm #avif #ai #grind #pivotingWildly

Behold! A second video in our pivot to video experiment. This one is about how we use AI to write single-use AppleScript macOS applications to encode web-ready video to optimised mp4, webm, and avif. youtu.be/kMqj5F2YwVQ #webdev #macos #applescript #ffmpeg #webm #avif #ai #grind #pivotingWildly

it's so fun making little vfx animations in @blender.org #b3d

bsky.app/profile/nuxt... #nuxt

👀 bsky.app/profile/nuxt... #nuxt4

In honour of Terry Pratchett & The Glorious 25th of May, you can set your X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett header on netlify-hosted apps by adding a _headers file xclacksoverhead.org "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."

Are we still pivoting to video? We have made a blackspike YouTube channel after 15 years and plopped upon it a new #CSS and #HTML tips video based on the 🆒 techniques we used for our new Astro theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IL...

My #GoogleIO video “Web animations today and tomorrow” has been published. Check out this session to learn how to guide, inform, and delight users by adding subtle and supportive animations to your web UIs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXW...

🌱 Keep your site Nodally fresh  Node.js 18 has reached end-of-life 🪦 Astro 5.8 removes support for all but the final 18.x release  astro.build/blog/astro-5...

Are we still pivoting to video? We have made a blackspike YouTube channel after 15 years and plopped upon it a new #CSS and #HTML tips video based on the 🆒 techniques we used for our new Astro theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IL...

Useful #firefox extension, *Text Fragment* for adding a 'Copy Link to Selected Text' to your context menu addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

The blackspike astro landing page theme is now available on the official @astro.build themes directory! astro.build/themes/detai... bsky.app/profile/blac... #astro

Announcing the boringly-named but excitingly-modern *blackspike astro landing page* – A free @astro.build theme made with #Tailwind 4 and cutting edge HTML, CSS and Astro features. Includes free Figma file! www.blackspike.com/blog/blacksp...

We've been having such fun building @astro.build websites, we've given our Astro & Starlight design services page a spruce up with details, case studies, and a new mascot made with Three.js & @blender.org! Get in touch to start an #Astro or #Starlight project! www.blackspike.com/services/ast...