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Software developer, writer, praiser of the sun. Obsessed with guitar. Cats. Cats are nice.

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Vermillion or Vermillion pt 2?

I like both for different reasons but I think I prefer the first

10.03.2026 16:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what I wouldn't give to go back to simpler times when my friends and I were on our xbox 360s playing mw2 and battlefield 3 and listening to dubstep remixes

09.03.2026 20:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
awww kitty, but it's afflicted with madness and its eyes are a fiery orange blaze

awww kitty, but it's afflicted with madness and its eyes are a fiery orange blaze

do what you must, but you better not hesitate

09.03.2026 04:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I got to the episode where that one character kills that one enemy (sorta), and it was the single most badass thing I've ever seen

09.03.2026 03:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I will say though, the camera genuinely sucks in cramped quarters or when fighting big bosses like golden hippo. There's a human boss in Sekiro that you fight in a tiny-ass cave, and he frequently backs you into a corner and you can't see anything lol. Free aim helps, but still. Camera OP pls nerf.

09.03.2026 03:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Attack on Titan season 3 is absolute cinema, I have to stop myself from binging

08.03.2026 04:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Look On Down From The Bridge by Mazzy Star - electric guitar cover
Look On Down From The Bridge by Mazzy Star - electric guitar cover YouTube video by Aleksandr

This was my first time trying to fully transcribe a song by ear. Any Mazzy Star fans?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DVnBPhNrR8

08.03.2026 01:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Orgasm of Death

I swear no other band sounds like The Growlers. They have such a distinct sound. California rock? Beach rock? I don't even know what you'd call this. open.spotify.com/track/4m3uMu...

06.03.2026 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Falling Down

My favorite Muse song, it's very Jeff Buckley/Radiohead. Amazing vocals. open.spotify.com/track/3vMrcG...

06.03.2026 03:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

War Powers resolution failed to pass, now what do we do? Just sit around and wait for this to catastrophically backfire?

05.03.2026 22:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) by Deftones - Guitar Cover
Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) by Deftones - Guitar Cover YouTube video by Aleksandr

Forgot to share, this is a cover of my favorite Deftones song

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRj...

05.03.2026 03:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The package: www.npmjs.com/package/loca...

05.03.2026 00:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An Interactive Guide to JavaScript Events | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan Learn how event capturing, targeting, and bubbling work in JavaScript; how to prevent an event's default behavior; how to stop event propagation; and more.

Recently published a web component that lets you render isolated code sandboxes in HTML, in any framework, even in Markdown. This originally started out as an 11ty plugin but is now reusable anywhere. Proof of concept in this old blog post.

www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/interac...

05.03.2026 00:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Death Valley Blues

TIL: This is a blues rock band's cover of an old 1940s song called "Death Valley Blues".

Some parts sound very similar to "Since I've Been Loving You" by Led Zeppelin. Funnily enough, both were released the same year!

open.spotify.com/track/7kqhFE...

04.03.2026 22:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awesome, can confirm this works too! Updated my pen to include comments linking to these answers.

Might be worth a mini blog post, although I can't think of any practical use cases for nested transparency off the top of my head, lol

03.03.2026 21:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nice lol

03.03.2026 20:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

> and then ignoring the existing 'a' and giving an entirely new value to the alpha channel.

Ahhh, that makes perfect sense! Thanks Sara!

Gonna play around with color-mix() ๐Ÿ‘

03.03.2026 20:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah I noticed that too, weird. It seems to be intentional/by design, but it's messing with my understanding of how currentColor works. It kind of reminds me how a child can't change the computed value of an inherited custom property that has a calc expression by modifying a var used in the calc.

03.03.2026 19:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think something like that is probably happening, but it clashes with my understanding of how currentColor works ๐Ÿ˜… I always thought it resolved to the computed color value of the current element, which is either an explicit color or the one inherited from the nearest ancestor.

03.03.2026 19:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe @bram.us or @nerdy.dev would know. I assume this is working as expected and I'm misunderstanding what's happening? Or am I doing something wrong?

03.03.2026 17:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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deriving color from currentColor, but nested? ...

#css folks, I recently learned you can use color functions with currentColor, which is pretty cool for creating muted versions of inherited colors (e.g., in text editor placeholders).

But why don't the colors in this demo become progressively more transparent?

codepen.io/AleksandrHov...

03.03.2026 17:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Everything You've Come To Expect (Deluxe Edition)

If you haven't heard this album yet, you need to give it a listen.

Miracle Aligner is my personal favorite song off it

open.spotify.com/album/6q1ZuW...

03.03.2026 17:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My Spotify autoplay is stuck on what I can only describe as Buckleycore. It's pretty good, lol.

02.03.2026 17:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?!

Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

02.03.2026 13:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 380 ๐Ÿ” 85 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

We are capable of killing foreign heads of state halfway around the world but we can't arrest a single Epstein client.

01.03.2026 01:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Guys don't worry, Chuck Schumer is drafting a very strongly worded letter as we speak

24.01.2026 21:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of the best investments you can make in life is buying good tools and learning how to fix things you own. Plus it's fun.

28.02.2026 20:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hot reload in 2.0.0-canary-10/11: elements inserted with JavaScript disappear on reload ยท Issue #32 ยท 11ty/eleventy-dev-server Describe the bug I've been test running 2.0.0-canary-10 for a few weeks now on my blog. So far, I'm a BIG fan of the new reload behavior! It makes authoring a much more pleasant experience and is s...

Maybe this, but it was a loooong time ago. I still see scripts break on hot reload locally on 3.1.2.

github.com/11ty/elevent...

28.02.2026 04:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I could've sworn there was an issue for this but maybe I'm misremembering, can't find it

28.02.2026 03:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My hot reload breaks JS/scripts so that might be what you're seeing since web components need JS to run

28.02.2026 03:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0