Mark Croxton

Updated #htmx booster pack with some significant improvements to the component lifecycle. htmx v2 for now, but v4 support is coming. www.npmjs.com/package/htmx...

I wanted to see what changing the UK tax bands around would mean, which of course meant I needed to make a fantasy HMRC simulator... justin.stach.uk/tax/?a=12570...

The first rain in months. For a brief period it’ll be wet and miserable, like a proper English summer.

Well done Brighton. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2619180...

Celebratory biscuit.

Sneak peek of a personal project that’s been in my brain for a while, and all about water, places and how we use it. www.waterdictionary.net

Sunset murmuration

Currently drinking this from my local whisky bar. The tasting notes are a bit silly (that’s Brighton for you) but the important thing is it’s a fabulous smooth Speyside but with a surprising amount of smoke. #whisky www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/tam...

Cloudflare’s biggest outage since 2019 - the post mortem is as comprehensive as ever: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Thought we’d left it too late but loads of sloes still about to collect. And now enjoying the last bottle from 2024.

‘Kin hell. The USA is a crazy scary place these days.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.” - George Orwell, 1984

This was 6 months ago. I can only assume he was trying to pump the stock price, because these kind of wild proclamations about the future of AI are proving to be complete and utter bollocks.

It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀 It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!! data-star.dev

The 50 year anniversary of Talking Heads’ debut. I used to sing this one in my 6th form band (badly, and usually drunk). @stach.uk I bet you can still do the bass youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...

📢 New video and a big announcement! briefs.video/videos/intro...

Got some availability coming up from mid-June for illustration, comics and commissions. Hit me up if you have a project in mind and shares - as always - appreciated 🙏

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right. Let's tackle those lies:

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

This is high art

Those bastards penguins have been getting away with it this whole time. They can't fool us with that cutesy monogamous waddling crap. America is going to tariff the shit out of them.

Hmm, don’t think we’ll be visiting the US again.

Post you from a different era. 1990-ish, rocking a paisley shirt for reasons.

Planting Black Poplar trees in the woods today with the help of some new little volunteers. #wildernesswoods

The bust of Sir Winston Churchill sits in Trump's Oval Office. He was an immensely brave leader who visited Washington, dressed in fatigues, seeking support against a despot. We all know what he would have made of today's unedifying spectacle and whose side he would have been on.

*headdesk*

I guess this is one way to bring 'transparency' to government operations. Horrifying.

(CW: outraged swearing) Fuck this MAGA imperialist bullshit. This hypocritical prick is part of a government that fires anyone with a dissenting view, ignores its own courts and has actively set out to dismantle US democracy. The brass neck to lecture us in the actual free world. Absolute twat.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Today’s jobs with fellow #wildernesswoods volunteers Dave and Joel: build dams to reduce surface run-off and redirect the path around a 400 year old beech tree, to give it a fighting chance to survive the increasingly hot and dry summers.

ÜSA.

This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

We pressed record 🔴 We talked about Datastar v1 🚀 We uploaded a video 📼 #hypermedia #javascript #framework youtu.be/99wTA9sFEWE

Zuckerberg has a new boss.

NYE party, or a nice cup of tea and an early night? Tricky one!

Work is done, mulled wine is ready.

Patching servers is not what I want to be doing right now.

Interesting new #craftcms plugin for using Intertia with Twig templates (so you can make a fancy SPA without needing an API). An alternative to headless sites rather than the hypermedia architecture used by Datastar or Sprig, although I feel it kind of belongs in the same box.

The Mother of All Demos, from 1968(!). Incredible, and makes me wonder what the equivalent would be today. youtu.be/B6rKUf9DWRI

Love this. A web component for generating beautiful patterns and shapes with CSS. yuanchuan.dev/an-introduct...

And once again I mistook shaving gel for hair gel. #oldblokeproblems

The procession of 'fun-but-dumb' stuff being built on Bluesky continues - this site reads out every swearword posted here in realtime. Very much a fan of the slightly-emotive voice model used here (you can really *hear* the frustration), though not convinced 'boobs' counts swearsky.bagpuss.org

Today I have been mostly making cat pictures. For reasons.

It’s happening, we’re recreating old school Twitter here.

First dog on choosing a new place to doomscroll. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/nov/15/leaving-twitter-here-are-some-alternatives-to-checking-an-online-nazi-bot-sewer-every-20-minutes

Migrating from #WordPress to #CraftCMS just got a whole lot easier. Announcing *wp-import*, a CLI command that imports WP users, posts, taxonomies, and media into Craft, complete with Gutenberg and ACF support! https://craftcms.com/blog/migrating-from-wordpress

Trying out Openvibe for cross posting to Mastodon / Bluesky / Threads, and seeing / interacting with any of your socials in a single feed. Seems pretty impressive so far.