David Vella

Codewrangler and pixelmason at @incident_io. Alumnus of Twitter, The Guardian, BBC World Service, Times of Malta 🏳️‍🌈

[Andrew Prifer @AndrewPrifer]

Dear frontend devs and UI designers. I bring you Liquid DOM, a complete and faithful implementation of Liquid Glass on the Web.

- Shape morphing
- All properties animatable
- Dynamic refraction and reflection
- Adaptive tint
- Adaptive specular highlight
- Dispersion
- Full html integration
- Super fast layout engine that works across Canvas and html
- Pointer event handling
- Framework and renderer-agnostic low level API
- High level React API
- Ootb @threejs and r3f integration

And lots more.

Read on for implementation details and demos.

[David Vella @indeox]

Space Station transit over the central Mediterranean #ISS

[David Vella @indeox]

@Black_Pilled Imagine planning to use blue/green screen to fake anything, and choosing *THIS* toy as your prop 😂

[Holly - I like tech @AnxiousHolly]

if the photos were took by a samsung 😭

[David Vella @indeox]

@ConnorJ_Critic @JAHadfield @MatthewRimmer You would if the prize money is withheld until after the finale was aired, and on condition you don’t leak the result

[David Vella @indeox]

Don’t mind me, I’m just here for the drama #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Vercel will be officially sponsoring https://t.co/QF7eOed81b. That's a given. We as a community and industry owe @adamwathan and team a lot. Tailwind is foundational web infrastructure at this point (it fixed CSS 😉). I've also reached out to Adam to explore how we can make this a longer-term commitment.

[David Vella @indeox]

@scottygb Meanwhile, Alan… 😂

[Martin_DeVido @d33v33d0]

Claude can code- but can claude grow?! 🪴

So far the answer is YES.
Claude is successfully keeping a living organism ALIVE.

There were some hiccups this week!

Some errors and resets, but Claude managed to power through and take care of Sol 🍅

A week in review:

[David Vella @indeox]

@Andyunited2352 @MadelynSmedley Think it was the first series. His name was Paul

[David Vella @indeox]

@MadelynSmedley @Andyunited2352 Not sure. But it was hilarious to see him pop out of nowhere towards the end, just because he was about to get banished 🙈

[David Vella @indeox]

@Andyunited2352 @MadelynSmedley They can just edit that traitor out for the viewers.

I mean, in the Australian version they edited out a whole contestant at one point 😂

[David Vella @indeox]

Heavily inspired by @jh3yy's product state-aware cards, but applied to architecture.

Had some fun with Claude + NanoBanana Pro creating building maquettes with different lighting states

All generated just from a couple of photos from different angles 🤯

[David Vella @indeox]

@jh3yy How do you even plan a page like that?

[David Vella @indeox]

@steipete @zats Unless things changed, yeah I believe it’s Catalyst.

Funny how the rounded corners briefly reset to the old style, but only if you resize from the edges, and only if the side panel is closed

🫠

[David Vella @indeox]

@zats @steipete Yup. Even their own Weather app messes up with the side panel closed 🙃

[David Vella @indeox]

Been meaning to try this fun hack for a while. Tracking aircraft by decoding radio ADS-B directly in the browser via WebUSB.

HUGE kudos to @devdevcharlie for her work on the JS Aircraft Radar, on which this is built ����💜

Got an SDR dongle? Give it a go: https://t.co/ig9jBbg97U

[David Vella @indeox]

@JacquiDeevoy1 The difference is several thousands of feet of difference in altitude.

[David Vella @indeox]

Clear ISS transit path over London last night

[David Vella @indeox]

@scottygb Well if Newsnight just broadcasted it… 🙈