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Christian Alder
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Building websites, playing board games, editing videos.

Will fika ☕️

My Projects and Stuff: https://www.aldr.works

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It’s documentary night for us ☺️ tonight we’ll be starting Human which looks really interesting.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3757...
Human (TV Mini Series 2025– ) ⭐ 7.5 | Documentary
Human: With Ella Al-Shamahi, Melissa Massyn, Angelo Chen. Examines the story of human evolution over 300,000 years, highlighting the latest discoveries and showcasing how we became the dominant human ...
www.imdb.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Reminder - our next #11ty meetup is tomorrow! Join live for access to Q&A and general chat.
📣 The next #eleventy-meetup will be on November 18th 12pm EST! In this episode, we have the templating wars from the two newest, hottest templating languages. @harris.social.coop.ap.brid.gy will walk us through WebC, and vrugtehagel introduce us to Vento.

All details: 11tymeetup.dev

#11ty
THE Eleventy Meetup
Join the Possum Posse to learn more about Eleventy! We're a new virtual meetup all about Eleventy and the tools and skills that support developing on Eleventy.Sign up for email updates
11tymeetup.dev
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Piccalilli is always top tier.

£60 off + a 50% discount on an additional course is a great deal 🥳
Our Black Friday deals are simple this year: save £60 on *all courses* and everyone who buys a course during this period will be given a coupon code that they can use to get a 50% discount off future course purchases at any time.

Deals start on November 25 and run for 2 weeks!
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Pikaday is back baby!

dbushell.com/2025/11/10/p...
Reimagine the Date Picker
The one where I reimagine an old project
dbushell.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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btw you can put a symbol as the first character of your name in linkin and auto-filter any email with that symbol in straight to your spam drawer :)
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Ok basically patched this up now 🥳

Note to self:

- Don't rely on DaVinci Resolve to auto-align 3 audio sources (2 mics and the camera).

- Be sure to manually adjust the waveform BEFORE you start cutting up the footage.

I just had to manually shift 25 bits of audio 😭
Do I know anyone on here that uses 2x DJI Mic 2 transmitters for recording two people next to each other?
A plus would be if you also use DaVinci Resolve.

If so, could you please share your setup? I'm struggling to fix a slight echo throughout a video 😩

Would love to avoid this in future work.
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I’m really liking Pluribus!

The recent episode was a bit of a slow one (as I’ve come to expect after Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul)

But I’m absolutely ok with that. The cinematography is on point, and I find the whole concept of the show intriguing.
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Do I know anyone on here that uses 2x DJI Mic 2 transmitters for recording two people next to each other?
A plus would be if you also use DaVinci Resolve.

If so, could you please share your setup? I'm struggling to fix a slight echo throughout a video 😩

Would love to avoid this in future work.
November 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I've lost my way with RSS again 😭

I'd been using Reeder for a bit and I liked it, I think I still do? I just don't find myself opening the app anymore (on desktop or mobile)

Maybe trying a new tool will help? I found this one which looks interesting: feeeed.nateparrott.com
Going to give it a spin!
feeeed » scroll without the doom
Follow anyone and any website. YouTube channels, RSS feeds, subreddits, local weather, personal step counts, birthday reminders and more.
feeeed.nateparrott.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
❌ Bluesky

✅ Aurorasky
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just successfully got a GitHub Action setup that'll take any changes to my 11ty site, build it, and SSH rsync the output over to my Hetzner VPS on a subdomain.

I'm so happy! 🥳

Sources for how I learned below:
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term.

piccalil.li/blog/program...
Programming principles for self taught front-end developers
The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are...
piccalil.li
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Just finalized moving some last bits out of Notion and into Obsidian!

I've really come to appreciate the recent Bases feature they added, which now provides three view types (Table, Gallery, and List) and acts pretty much the same to how I was using it previously.
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Cool, here's an easy way to unlock 8 additional accent colours for your macOS (macOS 11.3.1 and up) 🎨

It's a shame we can't pick any colour we want, but that pink option is very close to my brand red, so I'm happy.

georgegarside.com/blog/macos/i...
Use iMac M1 accent colours on any Mac - George Garside
The new colourful iMac M1s have corresponding accent colours set across the system. These colours are unique to these Macs, but there's a workaround so you can set these colours on your own Mac.
georgegarside.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Might be time I got around to actually sorting some of these... 🙃

This is the digital equivalent to shoving stuff into a draw to deal with another day. I'm real good at it. Well, the first part anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just watched episode 1 of Pluribus. We're off to an incredibly strong start! Had me captivated the whole way through.
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I've been using Forklift as a macOS finder replacement for a while, but this Bloom one looks interesting 👀

bloomapp.club
Bloom - Finder, but Refined
Bloom is a refined file manager for Mac, offering enhanced search experience and many powerful tools.
bloomapp.club
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My music vibe for today:

music.youtube.com/watch?v=mlM6...

Specifically playing a radio based on this track:
I'll Keep Coming by Low Roar, which is always good way to discover some more music.
I'll Keep Coming
YouTube video by Low Roar - Topic
music.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
Declan Chidlow here with some really practical uses of view transitions, along with some of the stuff that will trip you up, with guidance to help you navigate that.

piccalil.li/blog/some-pr...
Some practical examples of view transitions to elevate your UI
Declan Chidlow here with some really practical uses of view transitions, along with some of the stuff that will trip you up, with guidance to help you navigate that.
piccalil.li
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
You might think “boring” but seriously, this is a masterpiece.

www.nan.fyi/database
Build Your Own Database
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.
www.nan.fyi
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Storms here. ⛈️

Map showing lightning strikes blanketing all of Portugal. Just as well we didn't go on our planned hike today!

(6 hour loop in the reply as I can't share an image + video in the same post)
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
Happy Wednesday! It feels like today is better than it could have been, all of a sudden, because The Index #139 is here with the good links.

piccalil.li/the-index/139/
The Index: Issue #139
Happy Wednesday! It feels like today is better than it could have been, all of a sudden, because The Index #139 is here with the good links.
piccalil.li
November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM