Katja Lutz
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katywings.bsky.social
Katja Lutz
@katywings.bsky.social
Anarchist altruist, down-to-earth, independent hobby astronaut 🧑‍🚀 and amazingly lively, passionate web developer, in the stand against the technocrats. Creator of @nitropage.bsky.social, the FOSS visual website editor.

nitropage.org / lufrai.org
Some of the UI changes coming with the next @nitropage.bsky.social version 😋💅

#buildinpublic #webdev #opensource
May 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Components finally keep their internal state after saving a page 🥳!

You might think this should be really easy with @solidjs.com, just use "reconcile" 🙃?

But what if saving the page creates a new revision and all elements get new ids? How do you avoid rerendering all components in that case 🤓?
May 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
After the thousands of hours of work on my free and open source visual page builder, maybe this little addition will finally attract all the Wordpress Maximalists 🙃?

#buildinpublic #foss #webdev
May 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Experimented with the new @animejs.com version over the holidays. The results are quite 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥 I must say.

stackblitz.com/edit/github-...
April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just released Nitropage v0.67 🐛👀. The focus of this one was to fix a couple bugs related to the hmr handling of blueprint settings. Last but not least the new version includes Tailwind 4.1, Prisma 6.5 and Sharp 0.34!

Changelog: codeberg.org/nitropage/ni...

#opensource #cms #webdev
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Demonstrating some development. As before you get HMR, Typescript Tooltips and all that good DX, but Vanilla Extract compiles your styles into static CSS + CSS-Variables, resulting in a big performance win for client and server.

What has your experience been with Vanilla Extract 🤓? Should I switch?
February 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Definitely should have checked this out earlier 🤯. @markdalgleish.com's Vanilla Extract (vanilla-extract.style) is sick! Together with Nitropage Blueprints it's a match made in heaven 🥰. This might actually be good enough to fully replace the current CSS in JS solution (Fela CSS fela.js.org).
February 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Just had to work on something motivating, after yesterdays horrible phantosmia seizures 😅..

The new feature will directly load your fonts via @heyandras.dev's awesome fonts.coollabs.io 🎉 - a great way to experiment with different fonts 🙂.

#webdesign #cms #foss #buildinpublic
January 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Quick demonstration of the Layouts feature coming in the next @nitropage.bsky.social version! It lets you create reusable compositions of multiple elements. Ofc you can also define slots for page specific elements 😎. The power of #DRY, finally in the hands of users 🥳.
#cms #builder #foss #solidjs
December 14, 2024 at 8:26 PM