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

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Speaking of RSS, a new reader just dropped from @terrygodier.bsky.social. I'm intrigued 🧐

This one does away with unread counts and follows a different design philosophy to what I'm familiar with, with older articles fading away (configurable) after some time 👀

www.currentreader.app
Current - A River of Reading
Current rethinks RSS for the modern reader. Your feeds flow like a river. No inbox anxiety, no unread counts. Just beautiful reading.
www.currentreader.app
February 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Found this helpful little tool to turn a web page into an RSS feed 🥳

There hadn't been an update to the site I wanted to follow in five days, but one just rolled in! so I can confirm it works 😊

morss.it
morss.it – Get more out of RSS feeds, for free
Get more out of RSS feeds, for free. Turn truncated RSS feeds into full-text feeds. Turn any web page into a RSS feed.
morss.it
February 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
You don't need to pirate these assets 🏴‍☠️, they're free!
Kenney always putting out quality content.
The Pirate Kit has been updated adding new fortress walls, 70 models all completely free to use in your projects! ✨

kenney.nl/assets/pirat... #gameassets #gamedev
February 17, 2026 at 1:28 PM
It's me, remino 😅

Name mistake aside, it's an honor to have one of my demos mentioned here 💜
The February CodePen Challenge continues!
This week, we're mixing and blending colors 🎨
codepen.io/challenges/2...
February 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Let's all thank Microsoft for giving us a new meme 🙏
February 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
No more stalling, once I get a copy of my data it'll be goodbye Discord.

In the meantime I'll do the rounds to try and follow good folk on other platforms, or (hopefully) via RSS 🤩
February 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Christian Alder
Last week when adobe said they were gonna discontinue animate I got really angry and started building my own animation program. I’m calling it FrameBoy.

I want it to be a free animation program for everyone forever.
kirunkunju.github.io/FrameBoy/
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
Just make it exist first.

You can make it good later.
February 16, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Stepped outside for a bit and we got to enjoy an inquisitive Eurasian Blue Tit hopping around on a nearby tree.

That's it, that's the post.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia...
Eurasian blue tit - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Bases search is here! (early access) 🥳🤩

I know we could do stuff with filters, but it's so much easier to just hit CTRL-F and type. I just gave it a test and it's working really good for my collection of over 200 items.

the CLI looks neat too, might need to give that a try one day.
Obsidian 1.12.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

- Obsidian CLI
- Bases search
- Images can now be resized in Live Preview
- When deleting a file, linked images can now be automatically deleted with it
Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line.

Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).
February 15, 2026 at 11:24 AM
So the data from Discord goes to Persona, which has Peter Thiel as an investor…

The same Peter Thiel from Palantir… that provides data analytics software to help ICE.

😩
Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone
www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...
February 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
February 14, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
It's Friday, so let's get stuck in to some really good links to close out our weeks with The Index issue #164.

piccalil.li/the-index/164/
The Index: Issue #164
It's Friday, so let's get stuck in to some really good links to close out our weeks with The Index issue #164.
piccalil.li
February 13, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
broke down how I built the CRT effects on hypertext.tv entirely using vanilla CSS 🧵
hey! thanks :)

there are a few different effects going on here, and they're all made with vanilla CSS. i'll try to break them down.

this is what the general markup looks like. there's a television wrapper with a few overlay layers: the two we're interested in are .screen-blur and .scanlines!
February 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
gushing over the maintainability and simplicity of @jim-nielsen.com’s menu as a whole dang separate-standalone-HTML-page: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of...

(via @dbushell.com)
Building Websites With LLMS
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Having tried the monstrosity that is Surströmming, I can confirm that this would be very, VERY effective. 🐟
Stockpiling cans of Sustromming in case my boss decides I need to go in the office more
February 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Tried to delete my Pinterest account, they said 7 days.
I attempt a log in to check it's gone on day 8...

✉️ "The Pinterest account associated with ... has been reactivated. Welcome back!" 🤦 ᶠᶠˢ

Some companies are just really shit at this.
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
Issue 83 of the 11ty Bundle is out: Eleventy met-up, Brewventy starter, A chart plugin, Sveleven starter, 11tyCMS beta, Tricks of the trade, Eleventy survival, The Newsprint Theme, Bundle insights. #11ty @11ty.dev

11tybundle.dev/blog/11ty-bu...
Eleventy met-up, Brewventy starter, A chart plugin, Sveleven starter, 11tyCMS beta, Tricks of the trade, Eleventy survival, The Newsprint Theme, Bundle insights
11ty Bundle Issue 83
11tybundle.dev
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Configured and installed a new font ( Maple Mono ) this morning for VS Code and Ghostty, next thing I know I'm blinging up my terminal emulators with starship and making it look all fancy.

Help.
February 11, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Age verification?

I remember the horror screeching of connecting to the world wide web, and telling my folks to stay off the phone so I could finish loading the Neopets page.
Age verification?

I had to manually configure my SoundBlaster.
Age verification?

I remember having to use MOUSE.EXE
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
Discord is where content and conversation goes to die.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
This is the 5th "Your Uber account is scheduled to be deleted" email I've had over the past year or so.

"Your account and data will be deleted in 30 days" my ass.
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Christian Alder
blogged: Big Design, Bold Ideas
dbushell.com/2026/02/09/b...

I polished my website; fresh design and a no holds barred content strategy!

thanks to @vale.rocks for the indispensable help
Big Design, Bold Ideas
The one where I’ve only gone and redesigned my website
dbushell.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Dusting off the Steam Deck today, and I hope the battery is going to be in a good condition.
February 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM