Joe Bell

Hello friends 🙋🏼‍♂️ I'm Joe, a detail-obsessed Design Engineer based in Estonia I created cva.style and recently wrapped up a year with the wonderful design team at Clerk.com Outside work, I take photos with my Ricoh GRIIIx, ride my bike, focus on self-improvement, but tbh mostly walk the dog

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Friendly reminder that your time-saving AI skills work because, most likely, some open-source developer put their free time in

5 jobs I've had - Paper round - Antique clock shop assistant - Theme park ride operator - Door-to-door fundraiser - Design engineer

Watched “Hamnet” last night and genuinely not a dry eye in the cinema when the credits rolled One of the most devastatingly beautiful films I’ve ever seen

Jamming on Comboboxes with @alvi.sh and @moeamaya.com 🍟

1 year at @operate.so

Closing a big deal should feel like a big deal 🎆

If your app contains multiple scroll containers, consider adding `overscroll-behavior: none` to your html/body to prevent "page bounce"

happy monday to everyone except the people who decided `backdrop-filter` should affect scrollbars

Married my best friend

The best thing about working in tech isn’t the hustle or the grind, it’s about flying to the other side of the planet to spend time with the friends you made along the way

Living in the countryside is a life cheat code

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.

6 years ago, I moved to Estonia to live with a woman I met on Bumble just 3 months before In 8 weeks, I'm marrying her Life is wild, but beautiful

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Tried every auth service imaginable today just trying to get a simple "magic link" login working for our tiny wedding website (powered by @astro.build) Turns out, the magic combo was @supabase.com + @resend.com

You know you're in a great company when you feel free to yolo ideas straight to prod without the fear of pushback

Timeline cleanse

Is there anyone at @cloudflare.social or @astro.build who could help me understand whether to deploy my Astro site to “Cloudflare Workers” or “Cloudflare Pages”? Seems that both offer the same features, but Cloudflare seems to be leaning into Workers for its new Vite plugin Feeling a tad lost

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Nuclear take: AI image tools are the Snapchat filters of our generation

Deal status 🤝

Task status ✓

Stumbled across fontsource.org today – an absolutely delightful library of self-hostable fonts for Vite-based projects Major kudos to @ayuhito.com

❌ Doomscrolling ✅ Collecting Ultra HD Blu-rays

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Looking forward to the day when a shiny new mail/calendar app launches that supports more than just Google accounts

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I don't use stitches.dev anymore, but I still love – and regularly use – its "locally scoped tokens" paradigm For global custom properties use two dashes: var(--color-primary) For component-specific custom properties, use three: var(---color)

Truly envy the folks who are the most productive in their intricate home office setups Stick me in an unbearably loud café on a metal barstool at a wonky table – dying for the toilet because I don't want to lose my seat or pack my laptop away – and I will get 3 days of work done in 3 hours

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Super impressed by @flashes.blue — the hype is deserved

Beyond ridiculous that it's 2025 and you still can't convert a Google Workspace account to a personal account

Any other open-source project creators ever think “Wow I truly have no idea what I’m doing. How on earth have I ended up in a position where people rely on me for this?” Asking for a friend

Willing to invest in a startup that successfully removes any mention of Elon Musk from my existence

PSA: if you're using @tailwindcss.com with cva.style, consider updating your IntelliSense classRegex for a more robust solution 🏋🏼 Stable: cva.style/docs/getting-started/installation#intellisense Beta: beta.cva.style/getting-started/installation#intellisense Kudos to github.com/longzheng