blackspike design

A freelance full-stack creative development team working remotely from Brighton, UK. We design and build websites with Astro, Vue, Nuxt, and Wordpress.

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Announcing the boringly-named but excitingly-modern *blackspike astro landing page* – A free @astrodotbuild theme made with #Tailwind 4 and cutting edge #HTML, #CSS and #Astro features. Includes free Figma file!

https://t.co/94469mTwRC

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Check out both demos

Nuxt 4:
https://t.co/QMUjZAvge9

Astro 5:
https://t.co/vtAMyVuTLI

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

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.

https://t.co/0lV5CmCl7f

#nuxt #nuxt4 #astro #withastro @nuxt_js @astrodotbuild

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

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

https://t.co/QQcUk63ZlN

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

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Should you get asked to design a #PPT deck, install the handy and free #PowerPoint Toolbar – it places all the design tools right up in the toolbar.

It's by @slidor_fr, a french company cursed to walk the earth designing in PowerPoint for sins unknown

https://t.co/ylF4w4UDfT

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Delighted to add our logo to the @eduspots partner section.

We rebuilt the #WordPress backend – it'd picked up some digitial barnacles in the 8 or so years since we first designed and built the website.

A brilliant initiative we are proud to support: https://t.co/ieDuJV7KyQ

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has progressed us to the acceptance stage.

So, we experimented with vibe-coding a @nuxt_js 4 PWA using @cursor_ai and blogged the experience

https://t.co/LiQocRStMX

TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Try the app here
https://t.co/cOJmU9C4zd

and cringe at the code here
https://t.co/ptzOVRZ0hi

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has progressed us to the acceptance stage.

So, we experimented with vibe-coding a @nuxt_js 4 PWA using @cursor_ai and blogged the experience

https://t.co/LiQocRStMX

TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

(a greek friend has told us the ai reading of the words is wrong and bad)

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

we spent the weekend vibe-coding for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. we built a flashcard pwa for learning greek alphabet/numbers using @nuxt_js v4, #vuejs and #tailwind

we used @cursor_ai (also for the first time) and @elevenlabs to generate the audio.

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

some rough parts, and we haven't even looked at the #javascript it generated but it is a workable app. a very eye-opening experience! it is also successfully teaching us greek.

app: https://t.co/cOJmU9C4zd
code: https://t.co/ptzOVRZ0hi

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

We keep a @CodePen pen around for trying out all the new cursed #CSS features we hear about.

We've just added data- types and a css-if function 🥴

Almost all the new features are latest-chrome only, concerningly

https://t.co/0LK7x28qrr

#webdev #html #cursed

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

We keep a @CodePen pen around for trying out all the new cursed #CSS features we hear about.

We've just added data- types and a css-if function 🥴

Almost all the new features are latest-chrome only, concerningly

https://t.co/0LK7x28qrr

#webdev #html #cursed

[brightondog @brightondotdog]

advertising on https://t.co/gtIcFpj1R6 works people!

Do-Lalli hair & Beauty was discovered from their ad on our website. https://t.co/IqYaFd6whP

Get in touch to promote your #dogFriendly #brighton and #hove businesses!

#dogfriendlysalon #dogs

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

✨ Add the closedby="any" attribute to your #HTML <dialog> elements for zero #JavaScript click-outside to close ✨

chrome/chredge only atm #webdev #tip

👉 demo https://t.co/vtAMyVuTLI

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

case study here fyi https://t.co/Ka4HU85EqS #nuxt

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Just renewed the domain for https://t.co/pPNpCRHFbg ($22, @Porkbun), our oldest and favouritist side project – since 2009!

V7 is made with @nuxt_js , @vuejs , and @supabase . #nuxt

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Or, like a normal person who prefers to read, rather than watch, read the blog post at

https://t.co/1xIyD65ipd

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

Behold! A second video in our pivot to video experiment. This one is about how we use AI to write single-use AppleScript macOS applications to encode web-ready video to optimised mp4, webm, and avif.

https://t.co/bfJgMZZl9M

#webdev #macos #applescript #ai #webm #pivotingWildly

[blackspike design @blackspikeltd]

In honour of Terry Pratchett & The Glorious 25th of May, you can set your X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett header on netlify-hosted apps by adding a _headers file

https://t.co/4kEa6cWQ5p

"A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."