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Thomas Meerpohl

@meerpohl.dev

I‘m a webdeveloper from Dresden, Germany. My dream is to buy a pen-plotter and watch it draw all day

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LGTM, merged

10.03.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The discussion feels a lot like the switch from assembly to abstracted languages. People still argue, that you should know what‘s going on on a deeper level. And they are right. The same applies to AI code.
Best devs will use AI while still having a deeper understand.

27.02.2026 03:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is there a way to open issues?

10.02.2026 06:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🥳 Vivaldi just released a new version of their #browser, that restricts pinned tabs to the current domain. Outside links open in a new tab.

I‘ve been waiting for this forever!!

29.01.2026 14:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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⚡️I've released my app to the public! All other fitness trackers are just too bloated. This allows you to:

- create training plans (either using AI or by hand)
- check each day once you're done
- some basic analytics for your ego :)

Check it out at: fit.meerpohl.dev

#fitness #excercise #training

28.01.2026 21:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel every other browser has vertical tabs nowadays. Chrome is definitely late to the party

23.01.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love the engine but Chrome itself lost it's appeal a while ago because they stopped innovating their UI. Too little too late.

I switched to Vivaldi a while ago. They got vertical tabs, split panes and more. All powered by the engine which is the best of both worlds.

23.01.2026 22:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I‘ve seen your posts. What kind of tool is Jean actually? I was not really able to find that out :)

11.01.2026 18:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That‘s cool, thanks!

11.01.2026 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

but doesn't the main problem still persist? you still need to be able to cache and queue requests for when the user is offline. be it a native or a web app

09.01.2026 20:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sdly they don't support variable fonts yet :(

06.01.2026 06:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh I see, you‘re not only talking about assignments.

27.12.2025 22:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Logical AND assignment (&&=) - JavaScript | MDN The logical AND assignment (&&=) operator only evaluates the right operand and assigns to the left if the left operand is truthy.

I think your before example can be replaced by the logical AND operator (&&=).

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

It only checks for truthiness, not for nullishness. so it might be a little tricky in some cases.

27.12.2025 18:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

direction seems most intuitive to me

04.12.2025 21:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

where can I read about it?

12.10.2025 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

aaq a y

01.09.2025 18:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have a single server for 15€ that hosts 7 services. Among those penoot, mattermost, paperless and a few webprojects.

11.08.2025 06:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hetzner server with coolify.
They already provide a preset for coolify. VPS are cheap and flexible. and Coolify is amazing

11.08.2025 06:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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homepage/src/pages/v2/grid.astro at main · Achder/homepage Contribute to Achder/homepage development by creating an account on GitHub.

You can find the code here:
github.com/Achder/homep...

27.06.2025 21:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screen of a website showing a graphical tool to generate SVG graphics. 
The tool uses simplex noise and fractal brownian motion to generate a shape that resembles a mountain-like structure. The tool offers lots of parameters to tweak the output.

Screen of a website showing a graphical tool to generate SVG graphics. The tool uses simplex noise and fractal brownian motion to generate a shape that resembles a mountain-like structure. The tool offers lots of parameters to tweak the output.

🆕 I'm finally diving into the world of noise. This is a grid distorted by simplex noise and fractal brownian motion.

It's fun play around with but I'm not satisfied with the results yet. I want to try domain warping next!

Check it out at:
🔗 meerpohl.dev/v2/grid?seed...

#creativecoding #codeart

27.06.2025 20:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🆕 I have refactored my interactive playgrounds to finally use relative units.
This makes them resilient to size changes which in turn allows me to switch up the page design a bit.

🔗 Check it out at:
meerpohl.dev/v2/meta-balls

#genart #generativeart #codeart #webdesign #graphicdesign

13.06.2025 06:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where are going to exactly in germany?

18.05.2025 18:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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GitHub - glennwilton/jsColorEngine: jsColorEngine is a color management engine using ICC profiles in 100% JavaScript. jsColorEngine is a color management engine using ICC profiles in 100% JavaScript. - glennwilton/jsColorEngine

My soft-proofing saga continues:

Sadly colorjs.io doesn't support #CMYK yet.

After some research I found #jscolorengine which I can use to load the ISO coated v2 #ICC profile. I can now convert my colors from P3 to CMYK and back.

That gives me a good estimate of what the image looks in print. 🫠

05.05.2025 07:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh my god, #microsoft #teams finally lets me resize the chat responsibly.

03.05.2025 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing Scribus

So my trusted printshop told me I should try exporting my prints as PDF-X4. I was sad to see #inkscape does not support this. But I found #scribus which seems to be the holy grail.

The UI looks a bit rough. Just as any good #OSS does. But the color management options are just wow.

30.04.2025 07:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I've been adding a font-selector to the wordy-playground.

I thought I'd have to scrap the idea because the outlines were drawn weird. After some research I found the magic #CSS:

paint-order: stroke fill;

It cuts my stroke-width in half but that's fine.
Check it out at: meerpohl.dev/wordy

28.04.2025 07:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌟 I might have went a little overboard with the filters. But I was trying them out in inkscape so that I can include them in my tools. SVG in general are weird but maybe I get something out of it. Also, repeating gradients are great!

#creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

23.04.2025 07:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🖥️ Might look cool as a wallpaper?

#creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

21.04.2025 07:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Astro 5.7 | Astro Astro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.

#Astro's new experimental font API might finally prompt me to add a font selector to my Wordy playground. Unfortunately, I can't experiment with it just yet due to a bug, but I've already submitted a ticket. Once it's resolved, I'll dive right in!

17.04.2025 07:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🎨 New one with just a little more muted colors. Still pretty heavy

#creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

16.04.2025 08:31 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0