blackspike design

A freelance full-stack creative development team working remotely from Brighton, UK. We design and build websites with #Astro, #Vue, #Nuxt, and #Wordpress.

blackspike design boosted:
blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-12

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has finally progressed us to the acceptance stage.

So, we experimented with vibe-coding a @nuxt 4 PWA using #Cursor, and blogged about the experience here

blackspike.com/blog/vibe-codin

TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-11
blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-11

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has finally progressed us to the acceptance stage.

So, we experimented with vibe-coding a @nuxt 4 PWA using #Cursor, and blogged about the experience here

blackspike.com/blog/vibe-codin

TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-08

(a greek friend has told us the ai reading of the words is wrong and bad)

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-08

we have spent the weekend vibe-coding for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. we built a flashcard #pwa for learning greek alphabet/numbers using @nuxt v4, #vue and #tailwind

we used cursor (also for the first time) and eleven labs to generate the audio.

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-08

some rough parts, and we haven't even looked at the #javascript it generated but it is a workable app. a very eye-opening experience! it is also successfully teaching us greek.

app: vibecards.blackspike.com
code: github.com/blackspike/greek-vi

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-06

bad cross-browser things are happening to css again

safari/chrome/firefox all showing different renderings of the same codepen css
blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-06

..admittedly some decidedly futuristic css from our #css test codepen codepen.io/blackspike/pen/emNz #browsers

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blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-04

We keep a @codepen pen around for trying out all the new cursed #CSS features we hear about.

We've just added ***data- types*** and a **css-if** function 🥴

Almost all the new features are latest-chrome only, concerningly

codepen.io/blackspike/pen/emNz

#webdev #html #cursed

screenshot of codepen editor highlighting a css if functionscreenshot of codepen editor showing word blocks saying welcome to the jungle at jaunty angles
blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-06-03

We keep a @codepen pen around for trying out all the new cursed #CSS features we hear about.

We've just added ***data- types*** and a **css-if** function 🥴

Almost all the new features are latest-chrome only, concerningly

codepen.io/blackspike/pen/emNz

#webdev #html #cursed

screenshot of codepen editor highlighting a css if functionscreenshot of codepen editor showing word blocks saying welcome to the jungle at jaunty angles
blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-30

✨ Add the closedby="any" attribute to your #HTML <dialog> elements for zero #JavaScript click-outside to close ✨

chrome/chredge only atm #webdev #tip

👉 demo astro-theme.blackspike.com

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-29

Just renewed the domain for spike.news ($22, @porkbun), our oldest and favouritist side project – since 2009! V7 is made with #nuxt, #vue, and #supabase.

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-29

great job on the SQL Server 2025 icon design! very nice 👏

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros

two blue semi-circles in pseudo 3d stacked to look like a database
blackspike design boosted:
blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-29

Behold! A second video in our pivot to video experiment. This one is about how we use AI to write single-use AppleScript macOS applications to encode web-ready video to optimised mp4, webm, and avif.

youtu.be/kMqj5F2YwVQ

#webdev #macos #applescript #ffmpeg #webm #avif #ai #grind #pivotingWildly

blackspike design boosted:
2025-05-28

Hey friends, did you know you can make a modal <dialog> element dismissible by clicking outside (aka light dismiss) by adding `closedby=any` to it. That's it. That's all there is to it.

<dialog closedby=any>

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

Chrome 134+, Firefox 140+, coming soon to Safari.

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-28

Or, like a normal person who prefers to read, rather than watch, read the blog post at

blackspike.com/blog/creating-m

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-28

Behold! A second video in our pivot to video experiment. This one is about how we use AI to write single-use AppleScript macOS applications to encode web-ready video to optimised mp4, webm, and avif.

youtu.be/kMqj5F2YwVQ

#webdev #macos #applescript #ffmpeg #webm #avif #ai #grind #pivotingWildly

blackspike designblackspike@mastodon.cloud
2025-05-27

it's so fun making little vfx animations in @Blender #b3d

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