David Bushell 🪿
@dbushell.com
⚓ https://dbushell.com Freelance, Web Developer, Designer, Blogger, UK – no AI
Remember to blink y'all. Lubricate those eyes of yours.
Blinking Cat Rapidly Blinking
Alt: Closeup of a white cat's face looking straight at the camera. The cat's face appears lit by the light of "a screen" it is looking at in a dark environment. The cat blinks and squints its eyes, probably due to strain from looking at a scree from such a close distance.
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can I blind one-shot a WordPress theme change on a staging site without spinning up a local dev stack? Let's find out...
noted: have you seen the price of Raspberry Pis?? dbushell.com/notes/2026-0... the PC and self-hosted hobby is dead, guess who ruined it 🫠
Notes – 05:12 Tue 4 Aug 2026
Notes – 05:12 Tue 4 Aug 2026
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A publication full of interesting, relevant, and curated links.
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you wait weeks for a website launch and then two come along at once
fixing a "bug" in my RSS reader because I published a mistake in my own RSS feed now this is dog fooding
noted: I really don’t understand the purpose of Homebrew anymore dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...
Notes – 11:09 Sun 2 Aug 2026
Notes – 11:09 Sun 2 Aug 2026
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cold opens are the worst trend in podcasting random talking with no context. I look forward to the vague deja vu I get when it's repeated in 40 minutes 🙄
blogged: End of the contact form saga dbushell.com/2026/07/31/c...
End of the contact form saga
The one where I can’t take it anymore!
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WTF is this Cloudflare? No link to documentation. Just a button that opens a 6000 word slop prompt...
![Cloudflare error notice:
Siteverify isn't being called for [REDACTED]
Without a server-side siteverify call, widget tokens aren't validated. The forms these widgets protect remain open to bots.
Button label: Fix with a Spin](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rgrzo7xept2yb2auooex4rlg/bafkreid6xwk6ccpiazgakzkkukgzob3kwuqmvf7bsngj4kkhcjpphwalwe)
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
David Darnes@darn.es · 6d agofilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/07/bull... the bull case is: designers can fake non-design expertise the bear case: non-designers can fake design expertises reality: everything is broken
The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI — Smashing Magazine
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens w...
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dear [whomever needs to hear this]: stop trying to make IPv6 happen on my local machine/network "Listening on http://[::1]:8000" 🙄
did you know, you can just drag & drop nodes in the DOM inspector? 🤯
I'm back to Sublime Text and I'm not missing any "developer experience" finally, peace
blogged: Businessing 101 dbushell.com/2026/07/24/b... some insight into why I'm moving from freelance to a limited company
Businessing 101
The one where I share insight into my new company.
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pros: they've set aside the leaf blower and chainsaw outside my window cons: they've activated the wood chipper
i like minimal HTML but I prefer minimal JS more, that said this is pretty small 🤔 meiert.com/blog/syntax-...
Syntax Highlighting: No Extra HTML for Code Blocks via Custom Highlight API and syntaxp · Jens Oliver Meiert
Keeping it simple where it affects your code and your users.
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ok i'm done with LightningCSS, can anyone recommend something to bundle @imports and minify whitespace only?
car alarms should be fined £50 if they're not dealt with after 1 minute (fine increases exponentially every additional minute)
half an hour into the week and I'm thinking Safari is worse than IE ever was 🫠
