A toucan landing in a tree in my backyard was not on my bingo card for 2026.

A photo of a sketchbook with rough ideation drawings of a headphone and cord hook design to mount under a desk. Sitting on top of the sketchbook is: a pencil, pens, digital calipers, a 2D printed iteration of the design vector, and the final 3D printed hook ready for mounting

Bought a sketchbook and decided to put it to the left of my keyboard to see if anything came of it.

Full success! Doodled up these under-desk hook designs until I had one I liked, revised the shape in Illustrator, extruded in Fusion, and 3D printed and mounted within an hour.

Surprising Saturday discovery: Bad Religion's The New America album aged really well (was always my least favorite since it came out).

Going to let you in on a lil secret: island architecture is a hook for new Astro users, but it’s not why devs stay. The client framework support was largely a consequence of good abstractions.

After using Astro, you realize what a relief it is to work *with* the grain of the web again.

Yeah, inconsistencies in scroll-snapping have been my experience as well. Maybe the new scroll buttons stuff chrome is working on will save the day, but it's likely a ways off for all browsers.

Is `scroll-snap-stop: always;` along with `scroll-snap-type: [x|y] mandatory;` what you're looking for?

Screenshot of an almost empty page of my website. The only content is a footer with logo and name, and a theme toggle button in the top right. The Astro developer toolbar is sitting at the bottom right of the page.

Nothing like starting a full personal site rebuild to justify continuing to not finish any blog posts. Sticking with Astro + Vue though, maybe the first rebuild not driven by adopting some new framework.

a young boy is standing in the rain with his eyes closed and his shirt covered in water . Alt: Sebastian from the Never Ending Story yelling out to a stormy night, "Moonchild!" when finally coming up with a name for the princess.

Ok, @codetv.dev show idea: Name that Component

Given a Component UI Design contestants have to give it a name.

That's it, that's the game. Too hard?

With a few tiny base64 images and some mix-blend-modes you can get a pretty convincing shader looking effects with just HTML and CSS!

codepen.io/ste-vg/pen/B...

Fingerpaint Group: Never Paint by Number We are Fingerpaint Group, a vibrant palette of people and expertise spanning the full spectrum of life sciences solutions. Where others see limits, we see opportunities for originality.

Excited to show off the project that kept me very busy these first two months of the year! New company website: www.fingerpaint.com

Built with Astro and Vue.

Digital Entropy What eats at our code? A quick explorative rambling of why we have to maintain and invest in all code and digital systems.

Haven't written a blog post in a bit, lots of false starts, but nothing ready yet.

However, I was rereading an old one and thought, "Hey! Not half bad!" which is not feedback I'm often inclined to give myself.

Anyway, from the archives, here's Digital Entropy
andrewwalpole.com/blog/digital...

I love those moments when you make something and can't help but spend a full 10+ minutes basking in the completed work, because not only is it done, it's done well!

📝 New post: Making the this keyword less annoying.

Thanks to friends in the ShopTalk discord for helping me on this journey.

daverupert.com/2025/01/like...

Roblox is life in our house, I'm hopeful it's as short-lived as his obsession with Ryan, which now he's at the age of being ashamed of having liked a few short years ago.

The only decent game on it I've seen is Foam Strike (used to be Nerf Strike) and it actually is a quality game!

Not initially, we first did it at ~8mo. But regressions through toddlerhood happened many times with our stubborn sleeper.

We did Ferber method, it took time, it was really hard, but it worked wonders for us.

Advice would be:

- Use a timer.
- Give yourself grace if it's too hard to stick with.
- The first week will likely be the hardest.

Dialogues on Natural Code | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

Hey I'm really excited to share my first ever proper academic publication!!!!

It's "Dialogues on Natural Code" — an essay that Dave Ackley and I wrote together

I'd be really grateful if you could give it a read. I promise it's not boring

Also it's a stage play

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Two-factor auth, except the second factor is you whispering the 6 digit code under your breath as it comes through on your phone.

Over on X they’re laughing at the folks who were principled enough to leave. “They’ll be back, they always come back.”

I really hope we don’t prove them right this time.

folks, this guy (me) is still looking for his (my) next opportunity. He (I) has a solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, & JavaScript.

We (wait) work on design systems, web apps, & accessible interfaces, also one of us is a tech writer! (something's wrong)

Consider us! (I'm only one person)

The Rat Run 13 variant sudoku puzzle grid. Showing a 9x9 sudoku grid overlaid with graphics to emulate a maze with a rat in one square and a cupcake in another, among other various grid furniture graphics that denote rule sets for solving the puzzle.

Rat Run 13: Triskaidekaphilia is up. Struggled a bit starting on this one, but recommend to dev-minded folks. There's a lot of interesting problem-solving happening in these variant sudokus.

logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...

Series solve videos are on the Cracking the Cryptic YT as well.

make sure you check out this week's t2sday update. here's a still from it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOui...

Deploy your Astro Site How to deploy your Astro site to the web.

Astro + (Vue/Svelte/React/Other/None) is deployable to a lot of hosts. And while choosing a framework for sites and apps is usually a big "it depends" conversation, in my experience, Astro supports the major scenarios and scopes you'd ever come across.

docs.astro.build/en/guides/de...

y'know astro is better than next.js because it doesn't dump a cargo plane's worth of js on every page

netlify is far better too

📍Pinning a starter pack for folks moving over from tech twitter

bsky.app/starter-pack...

I declare today the doomscrollstice, the longest doomscrolling day of the year.

Just to be clear, these pens already exist right? You just need to collect them?

good intro on durable Redis and why it's so dang good at adding just a *teensy* bit of persistent state to your apps.

Build Your Next App with Durable Redis Capability delivered through simplicity is one of my favorite features of tech. Digging into using durable redis to power a web-application, I found that it hits a perfect sweet spot of being easy to ...

Just put up some notes and a bit of an intro to using Durable Redis as a primary database solution for small projects.

Having just gotten done using it on a medium-sized project, I think it's an excellent choice for small/medium projects and ideas.

www.andrewwalpole.com/blog/build-y...

Great minds! bsky.app/profile/walp...