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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · 6d ago

Replying to @hejchristian@front-end.social

Oh and if you're thinking I wrote about this one before, you'd be right! I dunno why I thought to try it again, but it didn't work out for me again, and so here we are. Committing to only explore other code editors if VSCodium dies on me for real.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · 6d ago

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It's just not a good fit for my work-style for now, and while I did get CSS variables working in this one 🥳, Vento was the next hurdle that I couldn't overcome. Broken syntax highlighting and it kept defaulting to HTML comment blocks instead of the Vento style (Not a fault of Gram itself!)

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · 6d ago

I really need to stop testing out different code editors when the one I'm using already (VSCodium) is setup perfectly and I have zero problems with it 🤦 Just back from trying Gram - its a Zed fork with a cute toad mascot: https://gram-editor.com/

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jul 13, 2026

Every morning I step outside is a chance to see something cool, like today! Good morning from this amazing multi-coloured pal. 🪿 European Bee-eater, https://ebird.org/species/eubeat1 Not just bees, caught this one snacking on a wasp. They sound really cool too! Wish I had recorded it. It's my first sighting of such a bird so I'm real excited ☺️ #Birds #Photography

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jul 06, 2026

Thankfully the weather is cooling down a bit tonight! - Even the birds seem to be more abundant. I always struggle to ID these crows though, at least beyond the genus level. 📷️️️️️️️ Sony A6700 🔭 TTArtisan 500mm F6.3 🎛️ 1/320, F8, ISO 1250 🎨 darktable 🪿 Crows, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7998-Corvus 🪿 House Sparrow, https://ebird.org/species/houspa #Birds #Photography

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 29, 2026

Replying to @hamatti@mastodon.world

@hamatti@mastodon.world Over 1000 sounds! 🤩 Thanks for sharing this treasure trove, this is great.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 29, 2026

Reckon this is too much? 🤔 *looks at my feed at pals getting replaced by it, fired for not using it, environmental damage, rampant scams, pointless & careless crappy output, etc etc* Nah.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @karafuto@mas.to

@karafuto@mas.to Still so amazing - thanks for sharing the whole frame at 5am, makes me appreciate how much like there is even more 🤩

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @karafuto@mas.to

@karafuto@mas.to That's so cool 🤩 Really captures how much light there is that day. I also like how the clouds (or possibly reflection on a window?) make some columns have a pixelated effect

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 20, 2026

Replying to @TangerineUI@nileane.fr

@TangerineUI@nileane.fr @nileane@nileane.fr Thank you for making it and maintaining it as long as you did 🙏 it’d been a while but I remember really liking this back when I was rolling my own private instance. 🍊🧡

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 10, 2026

Replying to @robb@social.lol

@robb@social.lol Hope it helps! I miss this internet 💜

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 05, 2026

Replying to @heydon@front-end.social

@heydon@front-end.social Sweet! Thänks för taking the time to share thåt ☺️

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Jun 05, 2026

Replying to @heydon@front-end.social

@heydon@front-end.social This looks great! and right onto my wishlist it goes for when I can buy some fonts 🥳 May I ask what set of diacritics and extra language characters it supports? I see Ö in there; I'm wandering if perhaps there is also Ä and Å (Swedish) If not no worries - it's not swaying my desire to buy this font one day ☺️

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 10, 2026

#SilentSunday

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 08, 2026

Migrated all my projects from GitHub to a PikaPods hosted Forgejo 🥳 such a pleasant experience it was!

Now I just want to find an alternative to GitHub Desktop. Sublime Merge looking nice, Fork too 👀

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 06, 2026

Solo/freelance folks that don't need public repos, if you're not using GitHub, what are you using?

Asking because I want to start moving my eggs outta that basket. I've been considering Gitea (maybe hosted via a PikaPod?)

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 06, 2026

Trying to learn/understand the camera settings a bit more.

There was a Cattle Egret earlier but as soon as I got close it flew off, and I had no chance doing this handheld.

So another house sparrow it is!

📷️ Sony A6700
🔭 TTArtisan 500mm F6.3
⚙️ 1/2000, F16ish, Auto ISO (6400)

#Photography #Birds

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 06, 2026

Day 1 of practicing with a lens I currently dislike to see if I can learn to tolerate it, and also practice some bird photography while I'm at it.

📷️ Sony A6700
🔭 TTArtisan 500mm F6.3

Two house sparrows ☺️

#Birds #Photography

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 06, 2026

For some reason hundreds (thousands?) of ants decided to take the palm tree seeds from a felled tree in our garden, and are transporting them in a line into the field next door.

Not just palm tree seeds, all sorts. Look at these industrious lil fuckers go 💪

#Ants #Insects

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 04, 2026

Doing away with an "Estimated time to read". I don't know you, nor should I make such judgements. Might keep a word count though, even though it's not a metric I myself use/check when reading posts.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 04, 2026

Agonizing over the page meta (dates, tags, last edit, word count, etc) and just _how_ to display it 😩

Icons? Just words? less? more?

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Just text example:

Posted under the adventures category. This 561 word post was originally posted 02/05/2026, and last edited 03/05/2026.

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List example, could be with or without icons:

Category: adventures
Word Count: 561
Date Posted: 02/05/2026
Date Edited: 03/05/2026
Growth: Sapling (Because it's a digital garden innit)

#Frontend

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 04, 2026

Replying to @michelle@front-end.social

@michelle Adding to my growing folder of fonts! thanks ☺️

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 03, 2026

Replying to @michelle@front-end.social

@michelle That font is lovely 🤩 the whole site is

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 03, 2026

#SilentSunday

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · May 03, 2026

Went and touched grass in Évora yesterday, with a lil stretch of walking along an Ecopista 🥾

Ecopistas are cool because they're made using decommissioned railway lines, and are developed to accommodate cyclists and walkers :) Being old railway lines, the paths are looooong, but flat.

I didn't respect the sun properly though... so caught a bit of sunburn 🌞

#Portugal

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @bw@social.lol

@bw Looks nice! might give it a try over the weekend and compare it against Flexoki which is my current theme of choice across all the things that accept theming 😅

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Getting my ass saved with quality articles like this. I’ve come back to this one a few times now; it always helps me navigate adding a table onto the page.

https://piccalil.li/blog/styling-tables-the-modern-css-way/

By Michelle Barker for @piccalilli@front-end.social

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Curator@mastodon.art

@Curator Sorry to see it's been that way :( I return the appreciation (uno reverse-card style) as it's never a bad day to learn and become a better human ☺️ Gave me plenty to think about.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Curator@mastodon.art

@Curator The more I've thought about it the more words I am coming up with! Deffo having a areWeTheBaddies.gif moment thinking back about how I used such words without thinking.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Curator@mastodon.art

@terribletowelie @Curator @cairobraga @saltywizard Risky click of the day. That's on me, I shouldn't have clicked.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Curator@mastodon.art

@Curator Wild! yeah that works :) I was gonna say "that's nuts" but then... no, I'm fairly sure I've heard that used as a slur. Thanks again! ☺️

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @hejchristian@front-end.social

@Curator I suppose "crazy" would be considered part of the list, similar to #2? that's one I find myself tripping over sometimes and have tried to avoid. and when I grew up in the UK it'd be quite common to hear "mad" used in a similar way. "that's crazy/mad" Thinking about it, I struggle to find a word that I could use in such an example 😅 But I will try! 💪

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Curator@mastodon.art

@Curator TIL, thank you 💜 I had sometimes used #2 (not towards a person, but to describe something happening), #3, #4, and #7, but hadn't really given it much thought before that it would be ableist language.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @timixretroplays@digipres.club

@timixretroplays@digipres.club Might this be an option? Hetzner managed NextCloud server ; you can get 1TB for max 4.29 € (7 AUD) a month. Servers in Germany https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ EDIT: oops, More replies loaded after I posted this and I see you’ve been recommended this already and that you prefer something closer to home, sorry!

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 27, 2026

CSS pals 💜

Anyone pulled off something like this before? Perhaps you've seen it on a site in the wild or experimented yourself. Please help 🙏

A responsive CSS grid (size doesn't matter) with visible grid lines that go beyond the contents/grid-cells

So far I've tried pseudo ::after/::before, linear-repeating backgrounds, and I'm currently trying to make it work with a duplicate grid overlayed on top...

EDIT: @chriskirknielsen@front-end.social cracked it! 🤩

@chriskirknielsen@front-end.social

#CSS #Frontend

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @hamatti@mastodon.world

@hamatti@mastodon.world Vanilla creme filling? damn - that's one of the best fillings 🤤 and thanks Juhis 💜 I'm sure it will, and thanks to your post it was the little spark I needed to focus on just that.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @chriskirknielsen@front-end.social

@chriskirknielsen Oh nice, will for sure check that out, thanks! ☺️ What a fun lil project, nice design too! My only exposure to Elder Futhark has been this little paper cut project with some of the runes, and also when on a Nordic roadtrip we were _this_ close to seeing a real historical site/runestone, but turned around defeated after the long walk there because of a closed gate. We later learned from our Airbnb host that we could have just opened the gate... it was only to keep the cows in 🤣

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @hamatti@mastodon.world

@hamatti@mastodon.world That's an amazing looking donut/pastry thing 🤩 I wish you luck on your goal! The week just gone has been so-so, I spent half of it feeling nauseous a fair bit, and otherwise a bit low/lost myself. Going to spend this weekend focusing on what I need to do to also be happy, and healthy along with it, I was supposed to to this at the start of the year 😔

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @chriskirknielsen@front-end.social

@chriskirknielsen So cool! Nice that you know so many languages, and the Futhark alphabet enough to be able to read Norse runes! 🤩 ᚼᛒ

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @kolombiken@front-end.social

@kolombiken It truly is; it's my first year viewing/knowing about it too 🤩 looking forward to keep watching every year now, along with getting some more slow tv in my life!

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @kolombiken@front-end.social

@kolombiken You've spotted so many! and such great sightings, nice 🤩 I have tried to have it up and running as much as I can. It's always a joy to see the Moose (or Reindeer!)

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Christian Alder @hejchristian@front-end.social · Apr 22, 2026

Hello / Hej / Olá 👋

Just made to move to front-end.social! 🥳 (Thanks @ben@front-end.social )

I love #HTML, #CSS, and #JavaScript, 11ty is my fav SSG, and I've recently been enjoying Vite for little experiments and SPA projects. Currently working on a lil weekly planner and kanban system.

I also love nature, board games, and a bunch of other stuff I'll probably share from time to time.

Until I have a personal website to share (it's currently WIP...), here is a random CodePen I like: https://codepen.io/HejChristian/pen/VYYwqza

💜

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