Stefano Bartoletti

Hi, I'm Stefano, a freelance creative developer from Italy 👋 I'm focused on 💻 Front-End 🎨 Creative development ✨ Animations & Interactions 👨‍💻 Vue & Nuxt I also enjoy swimming, hiking, reading, gaming, history, sci-fi, etc... Follow me if you are interested! My home 👉 www.stefanobartoletti.it

Happy #linuxday to all tech penguins out there 👨‍💻🐧

When I advise moving to a modern headless Jamstack setup, where the decoupled architecture is in itself a security measure, they often tell me that old monoliths are still more than enough and the best solution.

Experimenting with Claude Design: again, constraint and railroading heavily matter. On its own, it only produces average, samey, boring visuals. Give it examples, rules, accurate requirements, and the result is an acceptable baseline where you can at least start to improve upon.

Some of my most recent Claude chats (apart from Claude Code): 👨‍💻 Website design exploration ✉️ Collaboration assessment 🍚 Risotto peperoni e salsiccia (this has to be in Italian, sorry) 🇪🇸 Spanish practice 🤖 Running local AI models ⚔️ Witcher 3 DLSS & Ray Tracing settings

Every time I'm working through a problem with Claude and start to suspect I've gone down a rabbit hole, I often ask: "Am I overthinking this?" The answer is almost always "Yes a little bit" I’m quite sure that is Claude's polite way of saying I’m already deep in the rabbit hole

Old-school web dev: "Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+V" Modern web dev: "Ok, go ahead"

This game is as beautiful as ever

The least architectural and structural decisions you delegate to AI, the better. Let it do the code monkey, but you should always be the senior making key decisions during the whole process. If you are not, well, you will have problems sooner or later, my friend.

The best things on the web are green 💚 First day at Three.js Conf was a blast! @gsap-greensock.bsky.social

Something AI agents can't do on their own if left to run without precise instructions constraints and fences, is respect KISS principles They get verbose, overdo requested tasks, and address what they think are "issues" even when not instructed Anyone else experiencing this?

Just one week left for Three.js Conf in Paris! Let's meet there if you are participating too!

I think it's time to go to dinner...

People going full agentic and telling you that if you read your code you are wasting time, and people manually tweaking animation values and small visual details because it also needs to "feel" right. I'm in the latter category.

A little new useful feature in my "Nuxt Social Share" module: now together with social sharing buttons, you also have available some "Ask AI" buttons. You can try it with `npx nuxt@latest module add nuxt-social-share` nuxt-social-share.stefanobartoletti.it/usage/suppor...

After years of using it, sometimes TypeScript still gives me some headaches. Ngl, it feels like an unnecessary complication and a slowdown But the reality is that it forces you to solve problems before they can crawl unnoticed into production, so thanks TS for your pedantry :D

🗓️New availability opening up mid-April🗓️ I'm a freelance web developer specialized in high-quality frontends with ➡️Vue/Nuxt ➡️GSAP/Lenis animations ➡️Headless CMS (proud @storyblok.com MVP) Need help with a landing page, portfolio or other creative website? DM me and let's talk!

You know you are doing something weird when your AI agent replies to you "You are probably right!" instead of "You are absolutely right!"

I just love how Copilot can get creative with its auto-completion suggestions for code comments, inventing whole stories in its own head

The new shiny award just landed! 🏆 Honored to have been recognized as a @storyblok.com MVP 2026 Builder 🚀

👨‍💻My latest project is live! New website for Consensys, the company behind @metamask.io. Created in collaboration with Studio Freight. 🔧 Built with @svelte.dev, @gsap-greensock.bsky.social, @splinetool.bsky.social 👉 Case study: www.stefanobartoletti.it/work/consens...

Some of my latest projects required me to use different stacks than my usual. I must say that nothing else I'm trying, works and feels "right" like working with @vuejs.org and @nuxt.com, you always feel like they are helping you achieve your goals and not fighting the tools.

Developers problems: you need to add a new case study to your portfolio website, it will take about an hour at most. You end up creating new features and tweaking old ones, you are a week into it and probably next one as well, and you haven't even started with the content update

Freed up availability starting in June! 👨‍💻I'm design-speaking creative dev fluent in #vue #nuxt and #GSAP 🤘Looking to team up with creative agencies & independent designers to craft amazing stuff! ☕ Reply or DM to book a virtual coffee chat! 🙏 Karma points if you share!

I'm a longtime fan of the "Syberia" series, and I've just finished the last installment, "The World Before": 10/10 if you ask me. Great setting, deep and believable characters, touching and emotional story, all as usual. And Kate Walker is one of the best videogame characters ever.

Vibe coding is cool and all, but when a simple oneliner would have solved the problem at hand, it completely rewrites my components with both different styling/linting and logic (often being more complex, verbose, and unclear)

Is it just me or Gmail spam filters are not really working great lately?

My new laptop got me covered for both work and gaming 🚀 And everything works great with Linux 🐧

Sometimes being a freelance developer means being free to invest in yourself, make your own choices, and feel free to sail your boat along your own course. Ultimately being empowered by being the architect of your own destiny. Some other times it just feels like a solitary and tiresome voyage

Reddit should seriously stop translating its content into my own language if I'm not explicitly telling it so. It is annoying and not useful at all

Sometimes you have to remind yourself the fundamentals.

Is it a good choice to use Histoire for component development instead of Storybook? I like the idea of having a Vue environment and be able to use Vue conventions since I'm mostly dealing with Vue, but this project seems to be not very updated lately. Ideas? histoire.dev #vue #nuxt

I simply can't believe it

Sometimes playing The Witcher 3 only means spending time in Photo Mode, just taking pictures like a shameless tourist

Animations in progress for an upcoming project. Mixing @nuxt.com & @vuejs.org integrated transitions with advanced animations from @gsap-greensock.bsky.social All good things in web development have green logos 💚😏

Is #Claude Pro's subscription worthwhile? I prefer its output and evaluations over #ChatGPT, but it is very limited in the number of messages and chat length. Is Pro effectively removing these limits (5x more usage than Free doesn't seem that much, since Free is really limited) Opinions?

I need to dynamically toggle a class to the `body` of a page inside a @nuxt.com project ``` const myState = useState('myState') useHead({ bodyAttrs: { class: myState.value !== null ? 'overflow-hidden' : '', }, }) ``` this is not working, it always applies even if the value is null, why?

I'm chatting with four different people over four different social media/messaging apps Modern solutions require modern problems

Back on the path, one more time...

I came to @bsky.app for a number of reasons but the most important was that people I care about are/feel safer here keeping that true is THE most important thing please, bsky team, keep this place safe for everyone 🙏

My only concern about the Witcher trailer is that I will have to buy a new computer specifically built to run it

No matter how much you explain that a minimal reproduction is essential in issue reports to solve THEIR problems people will still put "not needed". Then in the next 3~4 comments you try to explain that they need to provide it and that you only work on your OSS project and not their final project