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Dean Leigh
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Web designer specialising in CMS Templates, Design Systems, Component Libraries since 1996
🏠https://deanleigh.co.uk/
🔗http://colchesterdigital.org.uk
🏆Umbraco MVP
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Dean Leigh @deanleigh.bsky.social · Nov 4
Inspired by @bell.bz here is my Umbraco Community Starter Pack:
go.bsky.app/KXpHVDz
deanleigh.bsky.social
After a brief break, I'm back on my bread baking business
A home or polish boule cooling on a rack
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
deanleigh.bsky.social
I know were still in Movember but I need an early start to get a decent santa beard!
Please help me raise some money for @bowelcanceruk #Decembeard no matter how small it all helps.
www.justgiving.com/page/dean-le...
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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ishadeed.com
Adam is killing it! 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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zachleat.com
I just tested this on Windows with Microsoft Sans Serif and you’re right that it doesn’t include ss02 — but further, applying that font setting requires information in the font file. I don’t believe there is a faux ss02 😅 (an optional cc to @pixelambacht.bsky.social and a shout to wakamaifondue.com)
Wakamai Fondue
The tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”
wakamaifondue.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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sebastienlorber.com
👀 Navigation API will be available in all browsers soon 🎉

Completely redefines the APIs used to build client-side routers / SPAs

🫤 History API: popState, link click.preventDefault() ...

✅ Navigation API: clean, centralized way to intercept navigation events 👌
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
deanleigh.bsky.social
Van de ven!
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Released Today - UmBootstrap 17.0.0.-rc1 (big thanks to @AaronSadlerUK for help updating)
www.nuget.org/packages/Umb...
Umbraco.Community.Templates.UmBootstrap 17.0.0-rc1
A project template for creating a new Umbraco site using the UmBootstrap Starter Kit
www.nuget.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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bradfrost.com
HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
Design Tokens specification reaches first stable version | Design Tokens Community Group
www.w3.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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zeldman.bsky.social
Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms.

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.

www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
The mission is to keep the web sustainable.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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umbraco.com
We're almost there..! 🥳 1️⃣ 7️⃣

The Umbraco 17 Release Candidate is out now 🚀

Read Head of CMS, Andy Butland's blog for all you need to know about the upcoming Umbraco 17 launch.

👉 umbra.co/4odtwRE

#Umbraco #ReleaseCandidate #Umbraco17
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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webdesignmuseum.org
Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!

On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.

#WebDesignHistory
Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
deanleigh.bsky.social
Went for a walk...
A sandy beach with wooden groynes stretching out onto the sea which is glinting and rippling as the offshore breeze skims the incoming tide.
October 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
deanleigh.bsky.social
Quantity over quality...
Two loaves of round bread
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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officiallotro.bsky.social
LOTRO is looking for a Temp QA Tester! Get more information and find out how to apply here: https://www.daybreakgames.com/careers?location=massachusetts&job=8224457002 #LOTRO
Careers at Daybreak | Daybreak Game Company
daybreakgames.com is Daybreak Game Company's ultimate online gaming destination, providing immersive entertainment for your PC and Console.
www.daybreakgames.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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//cc @sturobson.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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bram.us
There’s a new type of CSS scroll-state query coming: “scrolled”.

This one remembers the last direction you scrolled into, which you can use to build “hidey bars”: when scrolling down (or having scrolled down), the hidey bar hides itself. When then scrolling back up, the hidey bar reveals itself.
October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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@vscode.dev users - do you use "Compact Folders"?
I find it a bit weird as I am used to nested folders in @visualstudio.com
I have just read I can turn it off but I wonder should I just get used to it?
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
deanleigh.bsky.social
Til @vscode.dev uses it's own version of TS by default:
youtube.com/shorts/KbMEr...
Why Does VS Code Get This Wrong?
YouTube video by Dave Gray
youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
deanleigh.bsky.social
I'm happy to say UmBootstrap upgraded to .Net 10 and #Umbraco 17 Beta without issue
A split screen showing UmBootstrap version 17 beta back office and the other side the front end
October 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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davatron5000.bsky.social
The A11y Project is at risk of going over our 1TB bandwidth limit on @netlify.com and being automatically charged $55/100gb in bonus bandwidth to keep it online.

I think we all know the cause and it's depressing. I've asked Netlify to just let the site go down when the limit is hit.
A bandwidth usage chart going back to july starting at 1 gb for July, then a sudden hill approaching 18gb/day in August then going back down to 1 to 3 gb/day until late september which has steep sudden increase to 55gb/day
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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davatron5000.bsky.social
I love a good "Do this, not that" post. And this is a good one:

Do `git reset --keep`, not `git reset --hard`

adamj.eu/tech/2024/09...
Git: avoid reset --hard, use reset --keep instead - Adam Johnson
When I started learning Git, I found many references covering two ways to undo commits with git reset:
adamj.eu
October 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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sturobson.com
awesome little #a11y bookmarklet from @lloydi.com

a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets...

(check out the other ones they have on that page, it's a right ol' treasure trove)
Screenshot of a UI design tool showing component states for a 'New Post' button. The interface displays a dark-themed modal window titled 'Component states' with a close button (X) in the top right. The modal shows five different interactive states: Default, Hover, Focus, Active, and Disabled. Each state displays a blue button with a pencil icon and 'New Post' text. The first four states (Default, Hover, Focus, Active) include warning indicators showing 'Low contrast: 2.39:1' with triangle warning icons. Each row has a trash icon button on the right. Below the states is a section titled 'ARIA attributes found' listing two attributes: aria-label: 'Compose new post' and aria-pressed: 'false'. The interface appears to be from an accessibility or design system testing tool.
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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These are my favourite type of CSS posts
adactio.com Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · Oct 9
Journal: Simplify

Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22178
October 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
deanleigh.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse and I think "Þúnbossi" may be my new favourite word

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Releasing stranded baby puffins on a remote Icelandic island
Join the puffin patrol as they rescue lost pufflings on Vestmannaeyjar, off the southern coast of Iceland.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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sturobson.com
Hello World

I'm nearing the end of my current contract and on the lookout for my next adventure.

I'm a Front-End Developer and Design Systems specialist, excited to dive into new projects and tackle new challenges!

Let’s make some rocking websites!

stu@alwaystwisted.com

🙏🖤
October 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM