felix

designer/dev @ https://blackspike.com, from Brighton, in Athens.

Side projects:
https://spike.news
https://brighton.dog

Vegetable rights and peace.

Moved from https://mastodon.cloud/@felixthehat
Header: some cartoons I knocked up in blender

blog: https://felix.gripe
work: https://blackspike.com
photos: https://pixelfed.social/felixthehat

Last Notes

2026-10-09 10:36:27 UTC

Tried out this new clean-room #rust slopfork of Adobe's Illustrator – VectorCraft, a quick speedrun making a simple logo.
Extremely buggy, but impressive speed, UI, and feature-parity already adobe must be crapping themselves
https://getartcraft.com/apps/vectorcraft
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2026-07-17 08:56:08 UTC

cool free assets included in the new blender 5.2 💀 the materials will be v useful! #b3d
https://media.kafeneio.social/media_attachments/files/116/934/478/087/225/093/original/cfae55b16b164132.png

2026-06-28 10:44:45 UTC

uh oh
https://maptap.gg/
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2026-05-01 12:41:01 UTC

what are these fruits I keep seeing old men stealing and eating in the streets? #athens
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2026-04-06 09:10:07 UTC

who has two thumbs and a new label printer 👍😎👍
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2026-04-02 11:13:00 UTC

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yeah that was my initial reaction HOWEVER the fact that it's being built by the astro team made me at least want to keep an eye on it and see how it goes. i will not be using it myself but I'd love to see a wp alternative what with matt mullenweg going bananas and gutenburg/blocks being a load of bollocks

2026-04-02 08:14:49 UTC

quick thoughts on - the "wordpress-successor" #emdash released yesterday by cloudflare ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/ ):
• As a wordpress/astro designer/dev this is of great interest
• Looks like loads of proprietary cloudflare (US big-tech company 🙄) requirements • Although it does say node.js and sqlite support (great!)
• Interesting x402.org integration (finally micropayments!)
• The backend feels great and snappy, and I'd love to build my wp themes in astro… (1/2)

2026-03-05 11:49:40 UTC

looking into moving my wordpress sites to the eu and evaluating ovh vs vultr vs hetzner – does anyone have opinions?
leaning towards hetzner due to mostly positive comments #webdev #hosting #wordpress

2026-01-09 13:57:01 UTC

wrote a new work blog post. has anyone moved off netlify and aws glacier to similar EU services?
https://www.blackspike.com/blog/where-we-hosted-our-webapps-websites-wordpress-and-data-in-2025/

2025-11-20 22:09:25 UTC

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Draft posts, shameful code

2025-10-16 09:22:47 UTC

Well, isn't this handy! The font inspector in #firefox devtools links to the foundry and shows the license (tsk @ unlicensed trial 🧐)
@npub1q6s…03km #fonts
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