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Christian Alder

@hejchristian.com

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Building websites, playing board games, observing nature. Will fika β˜•οΈ /_src πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ /_draft πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ /_live πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή He / Him, Powered by 🌱 πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ€ŽπŸ–€

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@dansinker.comOct 12, 2026, 9:05 PMReposted by @hejchristian.com

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter'

dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

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@hejchristian.comOct 13, 2026, 11:52 AM

Mine is to make sure I take a nap πŸ˜… Few more hours in me yet I reckon, but I can feel the tiredness setting in

@hejchristian.comOct 13, 2026, 10:33 AM

That is fun, unfortunately goes against my β‚³Ε‚ policy with the pixel-art and most likely code too. But I'd love to try and make something like that some time :)

@hejchristian.comOct 13, 2026, 8:42 AM

If not bot icon, why bot shaped? πŸ€”

@hejchristian.comOct 13, 2026, 8:40 AM

ah thanks! It was partially inspired from when I tested the '/random' link in my footer, and realised it could throw unsuspecting folks into one of these pages πŸ˜…

@hejchristian.comOct 13, 2026, 8:35 AM

Ohhh that would be cool! I had thought about obscuring or poisoning the well for _certain_ crawlers but haven't tried to implement anything like that yet,

Heydon has a interesting approach to it
heydonworks.com/article/pois...

@hejchristian.comOct 13, 2026, 7:42 AM

Funny you say that, because I have on my "future stuff / post-launch" board, some ideas for lil interactive whimsy bits :) a flamethrower being one of them πŸ˜…

@hejchristian.comOct 12, 2026, 7:07 PM

Overkill thing to add? hell yeah, maybe? πŸ˜… But with it I've got to practice SVG filters, 11ty Fetch, Sharp image processing, and running code before or after the 11ty / BuildAwesome build process. Already got a few skills picked up from here to apply to another project πŸ₯³

@hejchristian.comOct 12, 2026, 7:07 PM

Running the function right before the rest of the 11ty/Build Awesome build too, so that all the images are ready to go. Now, by default there won't be any non-pixelated photos loaded, unless a visitor specially enables it.

www.11ty.dev/docs/events/...

@hejchristian.comOct 12, 2026, 7:07 PM

As a quick v2 before launch, it's now setup to fetch any arachnid photos needed, and then use the sharp library to process _actual_ pixelated images by first squishing down to 10x10px and then scaling back up to 300x300px.

npmx.dev/package/sharp

@hejchristian.comOct 12, 2026, 7:07 PM

The first iteration of my sites arachnid blocker was just a SVG pixelation filter. While the filter worked, it had the potential to fail if the CSS didn't load for whatever reason... suddenly, spiders everywhere! Now the build process will make images, instead of relying on a filter to obscure 🀩

Screenshot from my WIP website, showing the Naturalist Arachnids page, with obscured pictures of the spiders on the page by way of pixelation.
@hejchristian.comOct 12, 2026, 2:18 PM

Love that thing, was a joy to setup too ☺️

@hejchristian.comOct 11, 2026, 7:12 PM

The 11ty / Build Awesome Fetch Plugin is so damn nice 🀩 It's made fetching and caching my CodePen demos a breeze, so now I can display it all nice on my site, automatically ☺️

www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins...

@hejchristian.comOct 11, 2026, 9:00 AM

#SilentSunday

The bleak and barren landscape of northern Iceland, The sun is setting and giving the environment a eerie feeling. A dark soil/stone ground has small tufts of dark yellowish moss growing sporadically. In the distance towards the horizon, a glacier is faintly visible through an incoming haze hanging in the sky. A mountain protrudes to the right of the photo, in various shades of dark greys.
@hejchristian.comOct 10, 2026, 8:50 PM

Holy shit 🀯 This and their Bring Me the Horizon - Doomed cover are getting _all_ the repeats this weekend 🀘

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZAL...

@hejchristian.comOct 10, 2026, 5:36 PM

@hejchristian.comOct 10, 2026, 5:36 PM

Sure is an "All Systems Operational" day for sure. It's been many hours now that I can't access GitHub in any reliable way 😩

GitHub Status page which is showing all green and that all systems are operational, side by side with another github page I have open for a repo, where it's an error screen which reads 

"We're having a really bad day.
The Unicorns have taken over. We're doing our best to get them under control and get GitHub back up and running.".
@hejchristian.comOct 10, 2026, 12:50 PM

Me to your ISP 😠

@hejchristian.comOct 10, 2026, 12:47 PM

Yay, thanks for sharing one of mine! I love the other two shared here also, they're amazing highlights 🀩

@hejchristian.comOct 10, 2026, 7:48 AM

Sweet, thanks for the weekend project :) excited to try this instead of the lil json file I was using and manually adding to before 🀩 now I should be able to fetch some other info (easier) too, like views or hearts πŸ’œ

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