It's Guernsey!

I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...

I hope it‘ll be more than two weeks, and also no time soon!

If you’re getting an Undefined array key "Total" error in my Storyblok package update to 2.50.1. The API response changed. Investigating why but this will keep it working for you for now.

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

And the docs are updated with the latest features: ls.sirric.co.uk/docs/2.0/ove...

Another day, another release! 🚀 After a chat with a user on Discord Laravel Storyblok 2.50.0 allows you to override the Field classes. Simply make a Class in \App\Storyblok\Fields\Defaults\... matching the name of the field to override and it’ll be used! #StoryblokAmbassadors @storyblok.com

Whoops! This broke caching your config. Instead you need to load the extensions with a service provider. If you only want the default Storyblok extension then skip this step and the package will handle it for you.

I’ve just released Laravel Storyblok 2.48. This release allows configuring @tiptap.dev extensions and includes a <figure> extension that replaces the default <img> tag one and includes transformations via the image service! github.com/RicLeP/larav... #StoryblokAmbassadors @storyblok.com

Either ChatGPT is in denial or it’s becoming very lazy. I asked it a question, it got the answer wrong. I asked in to check again, it apologised. Then it gave the wrong answer again and repeated the exact same response, when questioned, five times! It’s really frustrating and so broken at times.

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The email everyone wants to receive. I guess I’ll wait until their team remembers to test before deployment then... It’s still less annoying than dealing with the AI powered support though, things only started progressing when I coaxed a human into helping.

I just updated my @storyblok.com Laravel CLI to introduce merging component fields. The way it works is you create a JSON file of just the new/updated fields you want and run the command specifying the Block to update. artisan ls:merge-component block_name changes.json

I just need to say I love CSS grid. It might not be the sexiest part of the web platform but it has to be one of the most beautiful and foundational to modern layouts. It could do with a few additions but it’s something I’d greatly miss if it disappeared.

Arrrh! Yer spineless land lovers, fancy some tales of the seas‽ #PiratePodcast #TalkLikeAPirateDay #Podcast #Podcasts

#OTD 1740 the Centurion set sail for the south Pacific. What would follow was one of the of the most gruelling sea voyages ever untaken, but with a prize bigger than any other. Listen to the remarkable story and more in our treasure themed episode. #podcast curiosityofpod.com/episodes/tal...

I’ve been working on a new @storyblok.com plugin (well, technically a reworking of an earlier idea) that loads a folder of SVG symbols from your website and displays them in a custom field for selection and colouring. It returns an ID and colour name ready for the <use> tag! #StoryblokAmbassadors

I enjoy nothing more than animating SVGs. Give each character its own length timeline and you avoid everything looping at the same rate. Makes recording a looped video for sharing impossible though!

I thought I knew my HTML elements pretty well.... but I just discovered <meter>!

Folks who use Firefox Developer Edition: What drew you to that version rather than Firefox Release/Beta/Nightly?

Fewer that 1%... even just 0.5% of hundreds of millions of people is still millions of people. That's a lot.

Can’t wait for the vide coded humanoid robots....

What LLM boosters promise: a future where AI takes care of menial chores, and you can spend more time with loved ones What the product actually does: talk to your loved ones for you so that you can focus on your menial chores

As a @storyblok.com Ambassador I know I need to say nice things about them, but the love might be very real. I can’t write the ‘story’ without my fingers automatically adding blok to the end. A CMS shouldn’t make me feel this way. 😅

If you’re using SVG clip-paths for masking with CSS then this tool is a wonder! It’ll convert a path to decimal units meaning it can be used responsively (and responsibly) with clipPathUnits="objectBoundingBox" on the <clipPath> tag. Love it! yoksel.github.io/relative-cli...

I have a confession, a new love in my life.... ... css scroll-driven animations 💝

Want to save your SVGs in @storyblok.com’s asset manager but still want to be able to inline or manipulate them. Using my @laravel.com package, create a Field class and use file_get_contents() to load the content. Now you can style with CSS, animate, or whatever you wish! #StoryblokAmbassadors

Did you know you can check which components a blocks fieldtype contains in Laravel Storyblok? Here I have a page, I get the ‘block()’ for the content type, then check if the ‘blocks’ field contains a ‘form’ component as a child. ls.sirric.co.uk #StoryblokAmbassadors

This thread is incredible.

I love the new @storyblok.com #Blueprints No more setup hell. Just jump in and start building the stuff that actually matters! storyblok.com/lp/blueprints

I’ve released version 2.46.0 of my @laravel.com package for @storyblok.com. It’s a small release but with some useful methods to get asset metadata such as alt text, titles and copyright! github.com/RicLeP/larav... #StoryblokAmbassadors #Laravel #Storyblok #WebDevelopment #ContentManagement #CMS

I'm looking for £10k - £15k to continue the research phase of Accessibility Compat Data for six months. There's a real appetite for this work (more on that soon)! I'd love to talk to small - mid-size orgs who are aligned & interested in chipping in. Reposts appreciated 🙏🏾 github.com/lolaodelola/...

I’ve had a pretty consistent working practice when building websites for a few years now. I like how work. Except for forms. I’m never happy with forms and keep reinventing how I do them. Latest project is moving them all back into VueJS.

I’ve been updating a legacy Laravel 8 application to Laravel 12. Currently it’s going very smoothly which is a testament to Laravel and also to the benefit of using a headless CMS like @storyblok.com which means I’m barely using any database in the project.

Let's disable copy and paste of AI content until you've completed a short quiz showing you've read and understood it. Let's gamify the learning like so many educational apps do.

I missed this the other day, but my open-source @laravel.com package for @storyblok.com crossed 50,000 downloads. It’s amazing to think the package I created is being used by teams around the world to bring their websites to life!

Hey, exciting news! I am going to be a mentor at the Storyblok x VMO2 Hackathon. Two days hacking on @storyblok.com to create something cool with me, some fellow Ambassadors and members of the Storyblok team! It's going to be a great event, more details below...

I didn’t realise the <strong> and <em> tags can be nested to increase the relative strength of their meaning! I can’t think of any system that allows me to set this. Most don’t even care for the difference in <strong> and <em>, and <b> and <i>.

Animating the #SVG dash-arrays can give that shaky-line effect (that I hate!) which some cartoons use. Not the best video example as it’s scaled up here, but create an array with lots of random lengths then juggle of offset in #CSS.

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If you want to use the new @storyblok.com PHP TipTap extension with my Laravel package here is how: github.com/RicLeP/larav... There are too many PHP 8.2 users for me to make this the default behaviour at the moment. #StoryblokAmbassadors

I got a message on Discord today asking to add to support for the .jfif extension to my @storyblok.com package for #Laravel. It’s now supported in 2.42.0. You can also now configure the extensions too. github.com/RicLeP/larav... #StoryblokAmbassadors

Laravel Storyblok 2.41.0 is out! It increases the depth to which links in Story content are enriched! github.com/RicLeP/larav... @storyblok.com #StoryblokAmbassadors

Yes!!!!

Anime.js v4 will be released next week, and there's never been a better time to become a sponsor. Major releases drive huge traffic spikes, so if you want to promote your product or company during v4 launch and new landing page unveiling, check out my GitHub sponsor page! github.com/sponsors/jul...

Lots of numbers in my latest project!

It’s Friday so let’s enjoy the chilled out unicorn from the WriteStuff website. I think I should have added a sparky rainbow when the tail is flicked! 😅 #css

I’ve just published some updated docs for Laravel Storyblok covering the new denylist configuration for the catch-routing: ls.sirric.co.uk/docs/2.0/ins... #StoryblokAmbassadors

I’ve just updated the Laravel Storyblok docs: ls.sirric.co.uk/docs/2.0/ove... Make sure you read the official @storyblok.com document too!

Laravel Storyblok 2.40.1 is out! This release fixes a bug when specifying cache store. github.com/RicLeP/larav... #StoryblokAmbassadors