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having fun making little animated web ~~gifs~~ videos for a client with @blender.org #b3d

screenshot of the stats in the post

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Where we hosted our webapps, websites, WordPress and data in 2025, and the hosts we dropped And how our attempt to be less reliant on US services and more EU based is going

New blog post! Taking stock of the services we hosted our bits and bytes on in 2025, and our feeble attempts to de-USA-ify our tech and become more EU-based

www.blackspike.com/blog/where-w...

#hosting #webdev #based

2025 (EU) tech winners:

🥇 @pikapods.bsky.social
🥈 @proton.me

2025 tech losers:

👎 Gandi

Where we hosted our webapps, websites, WordPress and data in 2025, and the hosts we dropped And how our attempt to be less reliant on US services and more EU based is going

New blog post! Taking stock of the services we hosted our bits and bytes on in 2025, and our feeble attempts to de-USA-ify our tech and become more EU-based

www.blackspike.com/blog/where-w...

#hosting #webdev #based

Our ✨ free ✨ @astro.build theme has been forked 40 times and has over 50 GitHub stars!

github.com/blackspike/b...

#astro

a logo and app icon of a purple gradient circle with a tongue hanging out and a white ai 'sparkle' shape on the tongue

our logo concept for an #ai startup was rejected for being 'inappropriate'

😶

alt text gist of the code example

gist.github.com/blackspike/3...

code gist link in next post

screenshot of the rendered html showing unique id's

just remembered about the new ( #vue 3.5 ) useId() helper, which of course, works great in #nuxt

vuejs.org/api/composit...

blackspike nuxt landing page A free Nuxt landing theme made with Tailwind

…we also updated our #Nuxt 4 demo site from 4 alpha to 4.0!

nuxt-theme.blackspike.com

Converting an Astro 5 website to Nuxt 4, or: Nuxt vs Astro for Astro developers We released a free Astro theme using the experimental fonts api, image components and imported SVGs. This is how we recreated it in Nuxt 4 alpha.

Updated our #Astro 5 to Nuxt 4 alpha post to use #Nuxt 4.0 🎉

www.blackspike.com/blog/convert...

Announcing Nuxt 4.0 · Nuxt Blog Nuxt 4.0 is here! A thoughtful evolution focused on developer experience, with better project organization, smarter data fetching, and improved type safety.

Nuxt 4.0 is here at last … and it's all about DX ✨

🗂️ app/ directory for better organisation
🔄 smarter data fetching
⚡️ a faster CLI with socket communication
🔧 improved TypeScript integration

... and a smooth upgrade experience. 💚

👉 nuxt.com/blog/v4

Converting an Astro 5 website to Nuxt 4, or: Nuxt vs Astro for Astro developers We released a free Astro theme using the experimental fonts api, image components and imported SVGs. This is how we recreated it in Nuxt 4 alpha.

Any Astro devs curious about Nuxt 4?

We've been itching to try out the alpha, so we recreated our blackspike Astro theme to Nuxt and blogged about the process.

www.blackspike.com/blog/convert...

#nuxt #nuxt4 #astro #withastro @nuxt.com @astro.build

@inertia.social hey thanks for the follow. great logo!

damnit, thanks!

that *is* easier! post updated, thanks!

blackspike nuxt landing page A free Nuxt landing theme made with Tailwind

Check out both demos

Nuxt 4:
nuxt-theme.blackspike.com

Astro 5:
astro-theme.blackspike.com

Converting an Astro 5 website to Nuxt 4, or: Nuxt vs Astro for Astro developers We released a free Astro theme using the experimental fonts api, image components and imported SVGs. This is how we recreated it in Nuxt 4 alpha.

Any Astro devs curious about Nuxt 4?

We've been itching to try out the alpha, so we recreated our blackspike Astro theme to Nuxt and blogged about the process.

www.blackspike.com/blog/convert...

#nuxt #nuxt4 #astro #withastro @nuxt.com @astro.build

woah! since when does alt+clicking a component name in #vscode #nuxt projects open the component file instead of components.d.ts??

Our biggest dx gripe since Nuxt v1 looks vanquished! Great work @nuxt.com 🎉

Find your Mastodon account ID A little tool to help find your Mastodon account ID

one more side project domain name released back into the wild. so long, mastodon-id dot party, and welcome mastodon-id.blackspike.com – a simple tool for finding your mastodon id.

you could probably have guessed that. #domains

blackspike wallpapers We made a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender, grab it and the .blend file here

We made ourselves a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender. Grab it, and the .blend file here. Or don't.

www.blackspike.com/blog/blacksp...

#blender #wallpaper #design #3D #graphicDesign #blackspike

nighthawks by hopper, pixelated

the birth of venus by botticelli, pixelated

mona lisa, pixelated

son of man by magritte, pixelated

pixelate.pictures by blackspike.com A toy app to convert images to pixels!

we've let another #vueJs side project's domain expire and moved it under a subdomain. Farewell pixelate.pictures, long live pixels.blackspike.com

thank *you* for the great code! will look into creating a custom pixelfed loader so we can load more than the default 10 posts at some point…

quick and dirty sample #astro code gist.github.com/blackspike/8...

get the live feed loader here github.com/ascorbic/ast...

screenshot of a page with photos on

tried out the experimental @astro.build 5.10 live collections by putting a pixelfed atom photostream on a blog

felix.gripe/photos

Uses the live feed #astro loader by @mk.gg - thanks Matt!

…anecdotally, we removed the format="avif" to see if defaulting to .webp would reduce build times which was inconclusive, but the website feels snappier. Could many avif images slow the web page? Too busy to test, but will investigate 🧐 #astro