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rusticola.co.uk
Rustie
@rusticola.co.uk
I enjoy good design and making websites using:

CSS • SCSS • HTML • 11ty • some JS

My last name is the common name for this bird - Scolopax Rusticola
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OpenAI just confirmed the Mixpanel data breach. 🚩

Basically: OpenAI used Mixpanel for frontend analytics, and Mixpanel got hacked.

Luckily, no chat history or API keys were stolen (phew).

But your Email, Name, IP, and Browser info might be leaked.

Sharing my thoughts about "Zero Trust" 👇
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Can’t believe I’m waking up to the Aussie’s needing 205 to win and I have hope that England can bowl them out. #Ashes2025 #cricket
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Dearly lacking discourse in local-first... the prerequisites for "data ownership" is it must be freely addressable (e.g. via the file system) and one must be able to adversarially do things with it (e.g. open/ubiquitous formats).
Having data in indexeddb is no more "owned" than having it in an http cache. Both are on your hard drive. Both are obscure formats you can't and won't do anything with. Data ownership requires using open formats. Almost no one doing local-first is even trying to do that.
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'
'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'
"It's fantastic because it's eco-friendly...We're not burning any gases," says Terrence Bridges.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Be a creator not a consumer.
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A very British welcome when America’s #LedByDonkeys - youtu.be/K8V4VNBw078?...
Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
@dbushell.com Thanks for your blog posts on deno. It’s been helpful to know want issues there are. I’m still really considering switching because of the sandbox environment and the explicit permissions.
September 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For the first time Tailwind (4) is intriguing me now that it’s built on the latest css features and no js magic in the config.
August 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Again for those at the back.

There are lots of people (including me) that are finding it very hard to get work. This is in part to the places that used to pay artists now wanking off to AI.

It aint cool or funny.
It's damaging to the planet & to the welfare of real people.

#fuckai #AIShite
June 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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You decentralize using ATProto/ActivityPub. I decentralize using RSS, Webmentions, and plain html. We are not the same
August 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
An astonishing stat: Across the three knockout matches, England have led for a total of four minutes.
FOUR MINUTES! (Out of 360 minutes) and still lifted the trophy 😱. #euros2025 #womensFootbal #England
July 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Well done South Africa for winning the #WorldTestChampionship. It’s been great seeing your skill and determination batting and bowling. Thanks for beating the Aussies #cricket
June 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🧵 (Re)introducing the Practical Accessibility course:

✨ It is a comprehensive, self-paced, online video course designed to demystify web accessibility and to equip you with the knowledge you need to create more accessible websites & apps today 💪🏻

practical-accessibility.today ⤵️
vimeo.com/1082908437
Introducing the Practical Accessibility course
This is "Introducing the Practical Accessibility course" by Sara Soueidan on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Alright, we're actually doing this open working thing.

We're going to work on projects, for real clients who are set up to make people's lives tangibly better.

We can only do that if it works financially though because we've got mortgages etc.

Your support will make this happen.
We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education for free at the point of entry.
We need your support to do free projects for good causes and publish free high quality education
We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education...
piccalil.li
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Thank you @nicknisi.com @selfteach.me @kball.llc and @boneskull.dev for starting the dysfunctional.fm podcast. I really missed not being able to listen to you the last couple of months after #jsparty stopped broadcasting. Its great to have you back 🥳.
The Dysfunctional Developer
"The Dysfunctional Developer" is a fresh take on tech from the voices of JS Party, bringing a no-nonsense perspective to web development conversations. From AI's impact on junior developers to practic...
dysfunctional.fm
April 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@dbushell.com Just read your latest blog post and noticed your link to Non-hominids and "AI" enthusiasts can follow this link for an alternate version of this page. I’d love to read about what you’re doing to obfuscate your content as it’s a brilliant idea 🥳.
April 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I am excited to announce the release of Valibot v1, a 1 kB alternative to Zod with a type-safe and easy-to-remember API. Check out the announcement post now: valibot.dev/blog/valibot...
Valibot v1 - The 1 kB schema library
I am excited to announce the release of Valibot v1, a 1 kB alternative to Zod with a type-safe and easy-to-remember API.
valibot.dev
March 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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“You can't say it any nicer: You can only write stable, well-performing React code if you have a team of exclusively experienced React developers.”

blog.lusito.info/stop-using-a...
Stop Using and Recommending React
I have used React for a long time. Trust me when I tell you: There is no reason to use it and a lot of reasons against it. This is going to be a long explanation, but bear with me!
blog.lusito.info
March 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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🚀 I've been having SO much fun playing with oklch() colors, and now I'm thrilled to share my little page! 🎉 Create patterns, experiment with color inputs, and easily copy the CSS or share your masterpieces. Try it out and let me know what you think!
#oklch #colorinspiration #css #madebyme
Oklchroma - OKLCH Color Pattern Generator
Create harmonious color patterns with Oklchroma, a powerful OKLCH-based color scale generator for designers and developers.
oklchroma.utilitybend.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Republican America this song seems so relevant yet again, wake up- youtu.be/ahKvKhXeuZ8?...
RATM - Wake Up
YouTube video by JustRATM
youtu.be
March 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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if 11ty has million fans, then I'm one of them.
if 11ty has one fan, then I'm THAT ONE.
if 11ty has no fans, that means I'm dead.
win or lose.
O website or 100 website.

i will always love and support you !
Even if the whole world stands against you. !!
¡VIVA ELEVENTY
March 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Change around the letters in his name to create a perfectly descriptive handle: *LONE SKUM*
March 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Great blog about LLM’s but not the #LLM you expect by @jim-nielsen.com - blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of...
Building Websites With LLMS
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire
March 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM