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

https://www.blackspike.com
our logo concept for an #ai startup was rejected for being 'inappropriate'

😶
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
just remembered about the new ( #vue 3.5 ) useId() helper, which of course, works great in #nuxt

vuejs.org/api/composit...
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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 🎉
July 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
July 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
tried out the experimental @astro.build 5.10 live collections by putting a pixelfed atom photostream on a blog

felix.gripe/photos

Uses the live feed #astro loader by @mk.gg - thanks Matt!
June 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
updated an image-heavy @astro.build website to 5.10 and turned on the new responsive images.

They weren't kidding about the increased @netlify.com build times 😮 from 5 mins to 45 mins!

Looks like they are cached but damn that took a while #astro
June 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Should you get tasked with designing a #PPT deck, install the super handy and free #PowerPoint Toolbar – it places all the design tools right up in the toolbar.

It's by Slidor, a french company cursed to walk the earth designing in PowerPoint for sins unknown

www.slidor.agency/toolbar-powe...
June 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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.com v4, @vuejs.org and @tailwindcss.com.

we used cursor (also for the first time) and eleven labs to generate the audio.
June 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
bad cross-browser things are happening to css again
June 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We keep a @codepen.io 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/p...

#webdev #html #cursed
June 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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June 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
✨ Add the closedby="any" attribute to your #HTML elements for zero #JavaScript click-outside to close ✨

chrome/chredge only atm #webdev #tip

👉 demo astro-theme.blackspike.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
great job on the SQL Server 2025 icon design! very nice 👏

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...
May 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
it's so fun making little vfx animations in @blender.org #b3d
May 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
May 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In honour of Terry Pratchett & The Glorious 25th of May, you can set your X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett header on netlify-hosted apps by adding a _headers file

xclacksoverhead.org

"A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."
May 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Useful #firefox extension, *Text Fragment* for adding a 'Copy Link to Selected Text' to your context menu

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
May 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The blackspike astro landing page theme is now available on the official @astro.build themes directory!

astro.build/themes/detai...

bsky.app/profile/blac... #astro
May 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Admire the #css scroll-timeline animations that brighten the text as you scroll!
May 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Look at the cool details/summary accordion animations!
May 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Uses the very latest #astro features:

• Experimental font loader api
• SVG components
• Astro component
May 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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May 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
February 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New design case study! A logo refresh for azureweekly.info and powerbiweekly.info.

Got a stale logo? Let us help!
www.blackspike.com/case-studies...
October 16, 2024 at 6:58 AM