(we also upgraded our @nuxt.com version too)
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We've upgraded our free blackspike @astro.build theme to #astro v6, and squashed a few bugs.
Fill your boots!
astro.build/themes/detai...
having fun making little animated web ~~gifs~~ videos for a client with @blender.org #b3d
screenshot of the stats in the post
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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
2025 (EU) tech winners:
π₯ @pikapods.bsky.social
π₯ @proton.me
2025 tech losers:
π Gandi
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 β¨ free β¨ @astro.build theme has been forked 40 times and has over 50 GitHub stars!
github.com/blackspike/b...
#astro
a logo and app icon of a purple gradient circle with a tongue hanging out and a white ai 'sparkle' shape on the tongue
our logo concept for an #ai startup was rejected for being 'inappropriate'
πΆ
alt text gist of the code example
gist.github.com/blackspike/3...
code gist link in next post
screenshot of the rendered html showing unique id's
just remembered about the new ( #vue 3.5 ) useId() helper, which of course, works great in #nuxt
vuejs.org/api/composit...
β¦we also updated our #Nuxt 4 demo site from 4 alpha to 4.0!
nuxt-theme.blackspike.com
Nuxt 4.0 is here at last β¦ and it's all about DX β¨
ποΈ app/ directory for better organisation
π smarter data fetching
β‘οΈ a faster CLI with socket communication
π§ improved TypeScript integration
... and a smooth upgrade experience. π
π 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!
damnit, thanks!
that *is* easier! post updated, thanks!
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 π
one more side project domain name released back into the wild. so long, mastodon-id dot party, and welcome mastodon-id.blackspike.com β 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
nighthawks by hopper, pixelated
the birth of venus by botticelli, pixelated
mona lisa, pixelated
son of man by magritte, pixelated
we've let another #vueJs side project's domain expire and moved it under a subdomain. Farewell pixelate.pictures, long live pixels.blackspike.com
thank *you* for the great code! will look into creating a custom pixelfed loader so we can load more than the default 10 posts at some pointβ¦
quick and dirty sample #astro code gist.github.com/blackspike/8...
get the live feed loader here github.com/ascorbic/ast...