going on #youtube and #twitch, going to be working on some website updates. Come hang out!

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MartineDowden

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/martine_dowden

Firefox's upcoming web apps feature won't work the same as in other browsers - but it's better than nothing https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefox-nightly-supports-web-apps-taskbar-tabs

In the last 6 months of using Astro in SSR mode, I have learned a lot about HTML streaming and how it breaks the expectations I had for full-stack apps, coming from Phoenix/Ruby on Rails.

I have written down a short blog post about it so you can learn from my mistakes instead of repeating them

https://angelika.me/2025/03/16/implications-of-astro-html-streaming/

I'm still thinking of getting back in-the-game re: **WebDev**, tried *normal boring jobs* and they just aren't cutting it. So if anyone knows of people looking for a seasoned Web Developer, esp. if part time and have WordPress requirements please put in a good word for me. Cheers!

#WordPress #WebDev #Jobs #GetFediHired #FediHire

Current status: Running a tail -f on all my web server access logs and adding bot user agents to my new master robots.txt file. Just out of spite. #WebDev

God damn Applebot is DDOSing my web server. I hate AI. #WebDev

wouldn't it be cool to know how to edit my google search information for my website?

.van {
.van {
.car {
color: blue;
}
}
}

It's here! The browser game that I designed, coded and drew the artwork for! Please give it a try and let me what you think!

https://biome.yurupath.net

I scream with the rage of a thousand suns.

Play my browser game!

https://biome.yurupath.net

Try to discover all the entities in the biome. Once you have this knowledge, try to uncover them in the shortest amount of time!

I am once again faced with the bleak irony of people who install onto their computer some 5 or 10 apps via FlatPak or Docker, including VSCode, each installed with their own entire copies of Node.js and Electron.js (differing only in their minor revision number), while also complaining about Emacs being “bloated” because it ships with a miniature web browser and fully-featured e-mail client.

I've been writing a new personal site from scratch. It's been a while since I've done a site design entirely by hand, without any frameworks to lean on.

It's been a lot of fun, and I've been honing my html5 and css3 skills - trying to do everything the *right* way. Making use of some of the more esoteric CSS properties I'd never bothered with before (like margin-inline or padding-block) .

I've made all the graphics myself using #svg (thanks #inkscape!).

I'm focusing on having a *microscopic* footprint, with minimum connections (one markup, one stylesheet).

My excitement to start using container queries at work got ruined by the realization that they conflict with responsive images, namely with the sizes attribute that can only use media queries #WebDev #CSS

This week, my employer (Lullabot), laid off 20 of the most brilliant, talented and amazing human beings I have ever met (though I was not one of them, and you better believe the survivors guilt is rough).

If you or your company are looking for a #frontend, #backend, or general #webdev developer within the #drupal community (or outside of it), please message/reply so I can make a connection!

The latest release of the US Web Design System has been released! It includes a PR that I had started working on back in Dec of 2023 :)

https://github.com/uswds/uswds/releases/tag/v3.12.0

If you care about #webdev and #optimization for the modern #web then check out my website: https://heavyelement.com/

The web framework I wrote:

* Generates main content of each page dynamically (with sub 100ms response times)
* Delivers ~1mb of JS, still is incredibly fast
* Delivers ~500kb of CSS without significant render blocking
* Provides a custom frontend framework that enables developers to provide dynamic async functionality by writing mostly HTML
* Tight front/backend integration

A new animated single-element toggle switch for the collection: rain
https://codepen.io/alvaromontoro/full/MYWmppe