The Index #155 is here with a nice mixed bag of links to inspire you in the year of the personal website, blogging and getting away from the US tech industry. Brought to you by State of the Browser conference. piccalil.li/the-index/155/

Finally got around to starting Dungeon Crawler Carl today. It's a lot of fun! 📚

Issue 82 - Eleventy: 2025 in Review, Got simple docs? Alex Zappa brings the juice! Vanessa Sickles' portfolio site, An update to Learn Eleventy, Bash your way to a blog, Sveltia CMS, Start with beer, Exploring a baseline, v2 of Podcaster, Eleventy Live!... https://11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bundle-82/

Slicing and dicing in DaVinci Resolve today, to remove the "ummmm", extra long pauses, and shorten the final thing 🎞️

Slightly diminish a band Fallingleaf

Could I get some recs for a low budget, decent, audio recording solution for two people talking? 🎙️🙏 - We'll be inside, next to each other. - It can be one mic, or one each (We currently have a mic each) - It doesn't need to connect to camera, It could be internal or direct to the computer tbh.

Anyone got any recommendations for external hard drives? The prices vary so wildly it’s hard to know what’s good. We found an 8TB one for £35 and a 4TB one for £300 so it’s confusing as hell. We’re looking for 5-10TB ideally.

Heating up the office because I don't know how to use Puppeteer properly, so it spun up 56 headless chromes to take a bunch of screenshots for og images. CPU shot up to 100% on a M3 Max, and I struggled to kill the process as everything slowed to a crawl. "Not a problem run locally ..." I said 😵

I don’t know nearly enough about the Alien franchise, but we’ve recently started Alien: Earth and we’re really enjoying it 👾

Weighing up four options of open graph image creation for the pages 🤔 - Manual - SVG, then convert to JPEG - Screenshot some good ol' HTML + CSS - Imagemagick I might try SVG first, though I'm not sure how custom fonts would work with that approach. Only one way to find out!

It's a new year and we need new ⁠#11ty Meetup talks and speakers! Please, please take a second and think through what are some topics that get you excited about 11ty - the meetup doesn't happen without volunteer speakers!

Not a new design (and probably shared before), but I stumbled on this again while clearing some folders on my computer. I hope I can get back to making stuff like this in 2026 🥺 Designed in Affinity Designer, cut with a Cricut (Or Silhouette, can't remember)

Anyone picked up one of these Echo Mini portable music players, and if so, how's your experience with it? www.fiio.com/echomini

FFS. Let's try for 2027.

Woke up to my dock looking all pixelated Two reboots and restarting the dock itself did nothing 🥴

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

I was going to do some cheeky post-midnight dev stuff but I accidentally drained my laptop down to 4% playing Terra Nil so… youtu.be/F8eYqNNxICE?...

Really enjoyed this one! 🤩

2025 was shit. 2026 will be better.

Last night I put together a drink logger in Apple Shortcuts (Gotta build that habit of hydration! 💪) It's working great on desktop, allowing me to activate it from the menu bar (or Raycast) and on iOS too. Next challenge is to somehow get a persistent variable in, so I can track my daily goal.

Just watched and very much enjoyed Predator: Badlands. I didn’t expect it to have the cute wholesome moments it had, but it’s welcome ☺️ Unsurprisingly there’s “menly men” online crying about the movie taking that angle 🙄

In a tangled mess of trying to degoogle a bit. I've got a Workspace account to cancel, but I'm downgrading to a free plan to (hopefully) keep the YouTube channels? Nothing is clear in the docs. Salvaging what I can / need to from Drive too.

Yay, getting a Google Workspace subscription increase because: "the significant added Al value" Probably time I re-evaluate needing it at all, given that I've already moved email provider 🤷

Day three of Christmas leftovers. We've reached mix and match territory and it is delicious. Jansson's Temptation (traditional Swedish casserole) on the plate with some mystery pasta I found in the fridge? Done. Oh? Vegan cheeses (blue included) to blend in? It'd be rude not to. Jag är mätt 🤤

QGIS feels like a bit of a beast, but I've enjoyed learning the basics so I can do some map stuff! 🗺️ After a 30min YouTube video: Look! A line 🤩

Started a fresh Baldur's Gate 3 sesh with my partner last night. After picking up a few characters for our party, we released an imprisoned goblin on our way to find a quest giver. We got caught with the goblin, started blasting, accidentally killing the quest giver we were looking for... 👀

I'm on onion duty 🧅 One of the few dishes we're making today, Jansson's Temptation 🇸🇪 We're going with chunky pieces for this one 😊 @whollyjoanafoods.bsky.social #Vegan #Sweden #Portugal

Found this on our morning stroll, a happy lil mushroom and friend! growing in the stump of a tree 🍄‍🟫 #Mushrooms #Fungi

Merry Chrysler ☃️

Excited! 🎲 bags a bit heavy, but it’s worth it.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

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[installing asbestos] “love it or hate it it’s here to stay”

Camera flash arrived! 🥳⚡ Now I can test some more macro photography. I still need to make a diffuser out of an old Pringles® can though ✂️

we need a new word for the relief you get when realising an absolutely gorgeous image is not AI

There's just something about coding games that appeals to me. This one is The Farmer was Replaced, recently made available on macOS. It uses a python-like language. There are others out there too, Shenzhen I/O for assembly, Screeps and BitBurner for JavaScript.

This is one of the most awe-inspiring and beautiful projects I've ever experienced through a website. I very much enjoyed scrolling through all of these with the accompanying music 💜 Would make for a great picture book too!

looking for website inspiration 👀✨ what are your favorite personal dev portfolios/blogs (or websites of small dev/design agencies)? I'm not talking super whimsical (although they are great 🤩), but beautifully made, nice to look at and read, great typography, nice little extras... 😊

Hike day! 🥾 Spotted so many mushrooms on this one! I'll be uploading them to iNaturalist soon to try and ID them. And although not the right season for it, we were even able to forage a bit of wild asparagus 😊 We'll be sure to revisit in spring for a better harvest. #Hiking #Portugal #Fungi

Ditching streaming for local music has got me rediscovering loads of artists I used to listen to (Thanks to me finding my old supply of ripped CDs 💿) Flyleaf, Placebo, Death Cab for Cutie, Breaking Benjamin, Nonpoint... all still slaps.

Friends fear he has once again made The Computer do his bidding. I built a little site for all my photos away from any social media. Had a little fun with it, yanno? konnai.re/leisuredome

The MAN HOODIE ads (I'm continuously fed on YouTube) would be hilarious if they were a parody. Don't forget fellas - it's not manly to wear layers. You ain't a man unless you wear a "TACTICAL HOODIE"! It's MILITARY GRADE. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤢

Currently planning the Christmas / New Years food menu with my partner - it's going to be an awesome blend of Swedish and Portuguese dishes 😋 3rd year in a row 🎄

Full on deleting paragraphs of a reply because I've decided that actually, I don't want to engage in an argument. Might be silly, but it keeps me in a happier frame of mind at the end of the day 🥰 Life is too short to be arguing back and forth with a stranger online who won't give a shit anyway.

We don't know about you but we are completely sick of soulless AI slop, so here's 5 stunning human made links as an antidote in The Index #150. Sponsored by the great folks at Saleor.

Issue 81 - 11ty Meetup recap, Zach secures Eleventy, Another v4 alpha emerges, Zach forks Nunjucks, Quesby arrives...And 9 releases, 15 posts and 18 sites to see https://11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bundle-81/ #11ty @11ty.dev @zachleat.com

It just keeps on getting better 🤩

I’ve never been massively into the superhero movies or comics, but we just wrapped up season 2 of Peacemaker and that was fantastic. Some brilliant acting and touching scenes through all the humour too. 🧜‍♂️