I thought of writing a little blog post explaining the process, hardware and code I used - I will let you know once it's done :)

I had a lot of fun lately tinkering with a little hardware project. It will be a small amp that plays music on my wifi speakers once a nfc album card is inserted 🎵 First test version is working - now i have to refine a lot of stuff and finalize it 😊

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The theme switcher of xkcd is amazing! Go check it out:

xkcd.com

Done! Added the missing aria-labels 🥳

Screenshot of pagespeed insights performance that went from 96 to 100

Just switched my personal website from Next.js to Astro:

Next.js: 1.5 MB transferred with 340 kB of JS
Astro: 400 kB transferred with 3 kB JS (my umami analytics script)

Also, pagespeed insights went from 96% to 100% - now I only need to fix the a11y issue to have all on 100 😊

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Version 2 is here! I think I'll keep it this way 😊

Watching the World Go By YouTube video by Beans On Toast - Topic

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e-ink display with weather forecast and calendar integration

I've spent quite some time today to set up this little e-paper dashboard. There's still room for improvement, but I'm pretty happy already 😊

Meeting Pictures · Fun Backgrounds for Zoom, Teams & Meet A collection of funny and creative backgrounds for your online meetings. Spice up your Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet calls with Meeting Pictures!

I spent some time last weekend to create this small side project where I share some of the stupid backgrounds I've used for my daily teams meetings :)

You can find it here: meeting.pictures

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The Most Common Website Security Issues Recently, I built StatusScout, an open-source tool to check and monitor a website’s health. For...

I wrote a quick blog post on the most common security issues I've encountered while testing StatusScout against hundreds of websites:

dev.to/vincenius/th...

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Recently revamped my portfolio website: vincentwill.com

what do you think? :) #buildinpublic

#Solopreneur and #BuildInPublic folks - are you active on LinkedIn and is it worth it?

For testing I started scanning random websites with statusscout.dev and I'm surprised how many of them leak sensitive files.

It found something on around 25% of the websites. Mostly it's some kind of test.php with phpinfo() or /wp-admin but sometimes also package-lock.json or pipeline files.

It feels weird when people call me "bro" in reddits comment section, which happens quite often lately. I guess I'm getting old

StatusScout - Your Website’s Health, All in One Place StatusScout is your all-in-one status monitoring tool for websites and services. Track uptime, detect outages, and get instant alerts.

Just published the new version of statusscout.dev including monitoring and much more 🥳

Before officially launching, I want to do more testing - I'll give away 6 months of free premium for anyone who is willing to test and give me some feedback :)

#BuildInPublic #WebDev

a very long todo list with a bunch of checkboxes checked

Ticking off some TODOs for my project statusscout.dev - still a lot to do until the next release with user accounts, notifications and more :) #BuildInPublic #WebDev

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.

TIL there is an <output> tag in HTML #webdev

denodell.com/blog/html-be...

I've been working on accounts for statusscout.dev lately. I don't have as much time as I'd like to, so it's slow progress - but still progress :)

Here's a small preview on the recent state 👀
My goal is to finish it till end of October #BuildInPublic

StatusScout - Your Website’s Health, All in One Place StatusScout is your all-in-one status monitoring tool for websites and services. Track uptime, detect outages, and get instant alerts.

The new landing page is live: statusscout.dev 😊

Next I'll work on improving the loading screen and on some additions to the dashboard before launching on Reddit (hopefully later this week) #BuildInPublic

Thanks a lot! 😁

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screenshot of the new status scout hero section

Working on a landing page for status scout. 💻
What do you think of this hero section? #buildinpublic

I've decided on a name for the website health check - I'll call it Status Scout :) The first working version is now online:

statusscout.dev

Feel free to try it out, and please report all bugs you find 😄 #buildinpublic

Making some good progress on my website health check :)
I hope to publish the first version in August #BuildInPublic

Today - making my website monitoring / status dashboard project responsive 📱🖥️ #BuildInPublic

screenshot of a health dashboard with uptime, security, performance, accessibility, seo and custom testflows

My website health dashboard is starting to look nice 😊 it also has a dark mode now 🌓😄 #BuildInPublic

Built a website health dashboard in my spare time inspired by needs at work - it includes various cron checks, custom test flows, and error notifications. Thinking about refining it, open-sourcing it and putting it online for others to use. But still a lot to do until it is ready :)

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Super happy that Thunderbird is now also available for Android. Just switched, and it is way faster than my previous Mailing App.

GitHub - Vincenius/bsky-embed: A web-component to easily embed a bluesky feed. A web-component to easily embed a bluesky feed. Contribute to Vincenius/bsky-embed development by creating an account on GitHub.

I took some time today to implement some small feature requests for bsky-embed. With version 0.2.5 you can now:

- disable images
- disable videos
- disable video autoplay

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github.com/Vincenius/bsky-embed