Our cat’s first experience with snow ❄️

First one for 2026 🌼

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I ever so gently pressed the button and then I bolted out of the men’s room 😅

We’re staying in Portugal during the Christmas holiday 🖌️🖋️🖌️

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If you're considering LemonSqueezy as payment processor, please reconsider. Wait for Stripe to take over, or choose a different service. Their support response time is weeks, customers often don't receive their emails, dashboard is buggy, and screaming on X is the only way to get their attention.

Yesterday morning I painted these personal Christmas cards for the family. I looked up my parents house and my sisters house on Google maps and put a Christmas tree in the yard. 🎄 Gifted them yesterday evening and they loved it so much.

lil bird with fountain pen and watercolor paint, really enjoying this, it’s so challenging to get the colors right, lots to learn!

I switched back to @11ty.dev, it seems to offer more flexibility when generating pages than Astro (this could just be my lack of experience with Astro). I did learn about Pagefind, and really liked the Astro page layout, so I'm incorporating those aspects into my Eleventy powered FilePond docs.

backdrop-filter never fails to disappoint ✨

basking in the glory of the Popover API

This technique was elegantly explained by @rikschennink.com back in 2022: pqina.nl/blog/set-sv... The key insight: instead of changing the SVG's fill, you mask the element and change its background-color. Simple, but powerful.

Playing Celeste for the first time. Collected 4 of 20 strawberries, dying 89 times, hahaha 🫠

10 out of 10, also my eyes are leaking youtu.be/xOXolSQcEb4?...

After 3 years of development I finally published the first alpha version of FilePond v5! <file-pond> is now a full blown custom element, it implements ElementInternals, can be styled with CSS Custom Properties, and can be fully customised with templates and extensions! 🎉 🚧 v5.filepond.com

is there some secret competition where resellers try to outdo each other at being the most incompetent?

5 years ago I decided to automatically destroy a Pintura instance when the window unloads. Today I'm wondering why on Chrome and Safari Pintura doesn't work when using the back button. DAMN YOU PAST-RIK!!1

me and my winter depression lamp

I always loved this surprise sales effect about selling an iOS app. We’d be on a holiday weekend and then someone featured the app and boom holiday weekend paid. Kinda like always being able to win a small lottery without having bought tickets.

modern CSS is so powerful, with everything going on it's incredibly impressive that browsers can parse and compute the end result as fast as they do.

Switched to using CSS system colors for the FilePond v5 default styles, this makes it better fit in with the other form controls. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

AGI is coming!!!11

Google traffic to all my "How do I do this basic thing and what are the caveats" articles dropped by a factor 10 in the past year. The reason is quite obvious. I could invest more time to write more advanced articles, but how long until those get sucked up as well?

I’m still drawing! By now it’s part of my daily routine, I look forward to it, and I notice I’m getting better at perspective. My dad bought a watercolor set 40 years ago, but never used it. He gifted it to me last week, so now I’m also trying watercolor painting 🖌️

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TIL about the `<wbr>` element. You can use it tell the browser where to break long words. I wrote a short @11ty.dev filter and they're now automatically inserted for long headings. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

This week I learned about `corner-shape: squircle` via @nerdy.dev I wanted a big squircle border-radius on code blocks, but scrollbars ruined the party 🥺 Then I found detecting container overflow state with CSS is possible via @bram.us, `animation-timeline` to the rescue! pqina.nl/blog/update-...

Safari ruining my magic trick

First time seeing a package-handling-sensor, pretty cool! Apparently my package has been handled pretty rough 😬

<dialog> is 🔥

Playing with Astro Starlight for FilePond v5 docs, impressed!

it's all coming together

Currently using this to toggle on/off animations based on user preference. I use these duration variables in inner elements, so when `--animate` is set to `0` all transitions and animations automatically stop playing. Is there a better way to do this?

added tiny spring animations to the button icons

dropping some node modules

Excellent read about vibe coding and how it affects your “relationship” with a codebase. github.com/jackdoe/pico...

Pushed a small Pintura "fix" to workaround zoomed iOS viewports. The modal would scale with the viewport, causing the close button to be positioned of screen. Using the `visualViewport` API it's now positioned in the top left corner of the zoomed viewport making it possible to close the modal.

cya on the other side 🫡

One of the best things I ever found out about the lunar missions is the fact that we have a transcript from Apollo 10 where the astronauts argue about who made the loose turds floating around the command module.

Still sketching. 💪 Spotted a cute tiny restaurant in Amsterdam. I also bought more fineliners and the set included a brush pen which turns out to be great really high contrast sketches and value studies.

powered by Svelte 5 🏎️💨

The perks of being a solo dev 👉 spend 2 days working on a rectangular progress indicator. Why 2 days? Because spinning a rectangle is a bit tricky. With a circle you can just spin the entire thing. With a rectangle not so much. So now I'm spinning a rectangle behind an SVG mask.

It’s that time of year again.

This online SVG path editor by Yann Armelin is so handy for cleaning up and/or adjusting SVG paths. I'm currently using it to make some small tweaks to FilePond icons, just paste in the value of the <path> "d" attribute and start editing away. yqnn.github.io/svg-path-edi...

It's the Monday morning after #perfnow so it's time to add Speculation Rules to my product sites, let's squeeze out that extra bit of performance! I added the <script>, opened the dev tools network tab, hovered over some links, unchecked "Disable cache" just to be sure, aaaaaand nothing happened. 🤔

Thank you Nintendo for adding this fish, our kids can’t stand it

“Oooh, it’s Halloween!” Me on the train ride home from #perfnow finally realizing why some attendees were wearing costumes :|

Quick sketch of the beautiful scenery and then back to #perfnow

Respect user preferences. Years ago I published conditionerjs.com to help you conditionally load JavaScript modules based on the current user context and preferences. Great DX if you’re into sprinkling a little bit of JS on top of your pages. #perfnow