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Charis
@charismagic.bsky.social
🗺️ NL born, after 10 years in HK, finding a new place to live. Currently in Asia.
💕 Doing all things SmashingConf.
🌃 Dumpling eater and skyscraper admirer.
👩‍💻 Still building websites and loving it.
🧍‍♀️ Also love food, travel, games and Ferdi 🐈‍⬛
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Come and join us in February for the first Smashing Meets of 2026!

We'll be talking about everything Design Systems with the lovely @bencallahan.com, @samiamdesigns.bsky.social, and @geoffgraham.me.

We hope you will join us online. Tickets are free 💞

smashingconf.com/meets-design...
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Ik gaf een nogal deprimerend eindejaarsinterview aan @markla94.bsky.social van het NRC Handelsblad.
Cas Mudde: ‘Mensen worden opgesloten in detentiekampen. Daar ben ik panisch voor’
Populisme: Zijn hele leven schreef politicoloog Cas Mudde, die al zeventien jaar in de VS woont en werkt, over radicaal-rechts populisme. Maar nu dat om hem heen de realiteit is, is hij stilgevallen. ...
www.nrc.nl
December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Late to the watch party:
“Working: What We Do All Day” on Netflix. Really enjoyed that.
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Yuletide Borders, scanned by us from a 1960s Riscatype catalogue.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/y...

These were small lead units that would be arranged in a printing tray to create patterns etc.
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Me talking to my AI a couple of times a week: “Make it less bro.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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⚠️ There's only four days left to secure our Black Friday deals ⚠️️

Save £60 on all courses and get yourself a 50% discount coupon that you can use at any time.

Deals end December 9!

piccalilli.link/black-friday...
Black Friday Deals
piccalilli.link
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
sIFR is back! Whooooo!
(I think this is pretty cool!)
bsky.app/profile/nerd...
Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`

nerdy.dev/css-text-grow

(prototype in Canary 165+)
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
So I cancelled Spotify. My wrap told me I listened for four days in total lol. The app is completely unusable now.
When I cancelled my Google subscription, it was a similar experience.
So many people working there, all providing “more value” 🥴. Meanwhile, shit doesn’t work.
*putting a record on*
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
[Dutch] For alle Nederlandse mensjes die graag lezen. Das Mag heeft twee hele toffe boekenabbo’s: dasmag.nl/product/het-...
Wij hebben het eBookabonnement, alle Das Mag boeken voor een heel jaar voor 50 euro. Nu ‘Reizen is onzin’ aan het lezen, en het is top. Ook leuk als cadeau trouwens!
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Things I use AI for:
- Can you shorten this copy with XX%
- Can you check this copy for any inconsistencies? (It gets out so many wrong links and dates.)
- Can you get me a list of events/workshops from this URL, formatted as follows.
- Can you write me an email with the following content.
December 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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I don't want your spotify wrapped I want to know what were your top 5 intrusive thoughts this year
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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"Unluckily for collagen, I am possessed of a lot of time and have a keen sense of justice." 😍
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Is it Friday yet?
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️‍🔥

Check out what's hidden behind the first door.

htmhell.dev/adventcalendar
December 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It’s pretty incredible how Meetup.com… killed meetups and communities.

Their pricing is unsustainable for non-US & free meetups. As an attendee who’s not paying, you can’t message people or see who is attending.
So everything is moving to closed WhatsApp groups, Slack, etc. Muh.
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Hello, I am the intern. My boss is super duper excited to do a talk at your conference.”

Ah yes. I see.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Making the .blue-bg purple.

#yolo
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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If you wanna stay up to date with what the web platform has to offer - and as a front-end dev you should - then Stefan's Web Weekly newsletter is *the* source to learn from. Week after week, Stefan tracks new platform features and articles and distills them into a handy, easy-to-digest newsletter ✨
And I'm sitting down to write Web Weekly which will hit all the inboxes tmrw.

If you care about the web and are into web dev fundamentals (you know: HTML, CSS and JS), you should check it out! 👇

webweekly.email
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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i made a pillow for our phones - turns on do not disturb when you lay your phone on top
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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there are two types. of git authors. it would seem
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I am probably the only one who likes the iPhone sock ehhh pocket lol.
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
www.apple.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
You know what would be really useful on LinkedIn? The ability to search for people who are… looking for work.

But yeah, that’s not really their core thing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM