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Brooklyn's favorite tech cuckoo 🤪 Internet enthusiast and maker of digital ephemera. Web, LLMs, design, and creative coding. R&D @GitHubNext

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I have outdone myself:
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@terkelg
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Revamped my personal GitHub profile readme! 🎉 I’ve made a fully responsive website inside an SVG, loaded as an image, using HTML, inside markdown, inside a readme​.md. Not only is it interactive and supports light/dark mode, but it also includes a fallback for Firefox😂 #github
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@terkelg
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Introducing Exifer! 🎉 A lightweight JS image meta-data reader 🔍 Extract EXIF, GPS, XMP & IPTC data 📷 Support JPEG & TIFF files ♻️ Isomorphic 📚 Comes with add-on parsers It's been fun and educational to work with actual bits and bytes for once Link:
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Today is my first day at @GitHubNext ! 🎉 I'm thrilled to be joining a team of brilliant minds on their mission to invent and reinvent the future of software development! I can’t wait to contribute to a product that I hold in such high regard and use on a daily basis. You can
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I pimped my @github profile too #github #swag
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Here's a sneak peek of the portfolio I'm creating for @SoerensenJacob 🎉
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@benhylak I have a hard time seeing what this does better than my Apple Watch. The Apple Watch is also a wearable, ML-powered device with a screen and better health features. I feel like Apple will be coming after Humane really hard as they integrate more AI into AirPods and the Watch
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Yesterday, I built the dad-joke equivalent of a website:
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Super stoked to see my WebGL shaders in the wild! If you're a @nytimes subscriber, go check out the experience for yourself
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@terkelg
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Ever wondered how far your cursor travels a day? Wonder no more. I made a little app that tracks that. Already at 53.41 meters #swift #fyi
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Open a new window somewhere in the world
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Say hello to our new website !
@hellomondaycom
Hello Monday/DEPT®
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You know how the shoemaker’s children always go barefoot. Well, not anymore, because today we’re launching the 5th edition of !
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@terkelg
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toonish WebGL fire I made a few days ago based on @simonschreibt Rime VFX talk #webgl #shaders
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Take a peek at the project and grab the source code from my GitHub: . Heads up, though – no promises it'll play nice with every browser or device out there!
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@_philippkuehn That's such a nice detail. It's a perfect example of how transitions can be used to enhance UX. Reminds me of this article
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@terkelg
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Had a lot of fun working on this portfolio. It was my first time doing a full project using @sveltejs (SvelteKit) and definitely not my last.
@JEmmertsen
Jonas Emmertsen
2 years
New Portfolio! It has been undergoing for a while, but I finally wrapped up my new portfolio site. I bow to my friend @terkelg for his tireless support in developing the website, making all my small ideas and details come to life. Hope y'all like it! 🤞
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@terkelg
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❯ Prompts v1.0.0 – 🎉 Validation feature, improved UX, new options, and updated docs. – 📦 Hit 2 million monthly downloads. > Repo:
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It even works in the GitHub iOS app 🤷
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I made a realtime Trump bullshit detector. It turns out it's every time he opens his dirty mouth. #TensorFlow #MachineLearning #js
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@terkelg
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This website made my day:
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I've been wanting this my whole career
@shadeed9
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Have you ever wondered why padding is inconsistent above and below text elements? We can fix that with `leading-trim`. Available now in Safari Technology Preview. 🤩 Demo: CSS Spec:
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Made my logo in a shader with SDF over at @ShaderToy
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Testing out the new @active_theory 3D engine post processing pipeline #WebGL2
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I love undertaking these kinds of absurd projects as they are an exercise in finding creative solutions to technical limitations.
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🎥I made Deakins - A simple 2D Canvas camera. It's only a few lines and dependency free
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@terkelg
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Excited to share this one! 👇
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Hello Monday/DEPT®
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We collaborated with artist Erika Senft Miller, to design and build a multi-sensory, digital experience that showcases the evolution of her work and creative process. Like Senft-Miller’s art, the experience invites users to play at the edges of the known.
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@terkelg
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I just made a game - it's a blank screen! Can you win?
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Globe I made for a project awhile back, case study coming soon #webgl
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This is post is a really good in-depth explanation of how Perlin noise works
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@terkelg
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Today an app @peterdremstrup and I build in our spare time is claiming 1st place in Entertainment on the danish AppStore making Netflix, TikTok, and Disney+ bite the dust.
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*Me coding with today's front-end frameworks.* #javascript #frameworks
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@terkelg
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What a surprise! Thank you so much @github 🎉
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I heard skeuomorphism is back? This life-size hand cursor works great with macOS Big Sur's increased hit areas. #swift @swiftui
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Front-end... back-end
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@terkelg
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The animated contribution graph reflects actual data and is updated twice daily with GitHub Actions.
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Handy tool to explore different input field attributes. I'm particularly excited about the new autocomplete hints.
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You can do anything in JavaScript, the trick is not to.
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@terkelg
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So many ideas, so little time
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@terkelg
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Thanks for reading.
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I'm excited to build in public and share more projects in 2022. I have tons of ideas and things in the making. Here's a quick thread on side-projects I finished last year: 👇🧵
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CSS has come so far. It’s truly amazing how much you can accomplish with CSS only nowadays, resulting in less JS and overall better performance.
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How I start any new project: Some quick doodles, followed by Freeform to create mood boards, and Apple Notes for research, links, and jotting down ideas
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You know you've been using FFMPEG when you open a new terminal window and it looks like this
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@terkelg
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Can’t wait to develop something for this thing over the weekend
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@terkelg
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All I want for Christmas is Age of Empires for Mac
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Remember when you could build a static site without React?
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Teenage Engineering is what Sony products used to look like.
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Making slow progress on Ace, my macOS AI copilot. Here's a fun little bug that accidentally spawned way too many windows. #acecopilot
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I'm having a blast building a tiny version of Vite. I forgot how much fun these toy projects can be. No deadline, no pressure, no profit... just play.
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Status of my personal website
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The website I did for @JEmmertsen just won another site of the day and developer award 🎉
@awwwards
awwwards.
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People still joking about how hard it is to center a DIV in CSS should consider a new career
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I have been doing this for three days straight. #acecopilot
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I got this captcha yesterday 🤷‍♂️
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There's so much I want to learn! It's amazing and overwhelming at the very same time.
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I have severe FOMO over all the helper utilities I'm missing out on by not using the React Fiber. Are there any similar projects for old-school threejs users like myself?
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I compiled a little list of things I'd rather do than work on your next big app idea.
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I've gained newfound respect for all hotkey recorders after spending the last 3 days building a custom global shortcut system. The irony? When implemented correctly, you won't even notice them #swift
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Years of front-end development have made me exceptional at naming shades of grey.
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Been following @runwayml since day one – the pivot into video editing tool was brilliant. It’s without doubt the most innovative and exciting product I’ve seen in a long time. Magical software.
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Playdate finally arrived
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It's alive! 🎉 Here's a very early sneak peek at my little macOS AI copilot. I'll share more progress later.
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Unpopular opinion: CSS and HTML are real programming languages you should take just as serious as JS/TS
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Really good list of game-dev resources. Don't let the retro style fool you #gamedevelopment
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This is the gist for the animation
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Firefox is the new Internet Explorer
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Just handing over my webpack config
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My portfolio might drop before DONDA at this point
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I got used to this so fast. It’s already impossible to imagine GitHub without it.
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Introducing the GitHub command palette. Hit Cmd-k on Mac or Ctrl-k on Linux and Windows anywhere in the @github web interface. Enjoy😊
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AI in creative tooling night @ Figma
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Win XP wallpaper if shot in today's climate
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Pretty stoked for the new year! Lots of exciting things are coming
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Excited about the Custom Highlight API
@bramus
Bramus
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Y’all seem to like the posts on using the Custom Highlight API with @prismjs to syntax highlight code … So here’s a full article digging into the details + a new demo that does on-the-fly highlighting of code you type into a [contenteditable] element.
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@joshgkirk Bookmarking this one! ;-)
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I love a good real-time VFX breakdown!
@gordonnl
Nathan Gordon
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Zelda BOTW Shrine Effect breakdown is here!
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It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. It feels productive, but what are you busy doing?
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@JohnPhamous Really cool. Using gradients as masks is incredibly powerful. I use this technique frequently, and it enables some pretty wild things
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Teenage Engineering makes Apple products look extremely dated.
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"It’s easier to stumble into building your resume in React with GraphQL than it is to type some HTML in Notepad". – I really enjoyed reading this piece by @tmcw
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Ugh, I hate that I so often "feel" like I should work on something profitable. I'm the happiest when I'm just building things with no goal whatsoever.
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Photoshop, you’re dead to me
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@hakimel Just absolutely smashing it as always – high five!
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Finally back in Brooklyn after a week in Yellowstone. Now it's time to implement all the mental-coding I've been doing on my hikes.
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People claim they 'work 12-16 hour days'. Yet, watching them work, they spend most of the day reading news articles and on Twitter.
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I spend more time casually browsing GitHub than I do on Twitter, Hacker News, and are܁na combined.
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I completely missed this proposal. Super happy to finally have native set operation methods in JS
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@cassiecodes @m_ott @eleven_ty I felt that tweet in my soul! I also use 11ty. I love working directly with the DOM. I'm also currently working on a little Vite-inspired tool to improve the DX for these kinds of static sites.
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@terkelg
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@mortenjust I have written a script that continuously cleans up and exports new notes to a vector database. I then use embeddings/RAG to query the vector database and insert the relevant chunks into the prompt. I will make a write-up. The next step is to integrate it into my little SwiftUI
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@realtron Haha 😂
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FWA Site of the Day! 🎉
@fwa
FWA 🏅
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FWA of the day 29 January 2023: Jonas Emmertsen – Portfolio by Jonas Emmertsen, Studio 28K, Terkel Gjervil #FOTD #thefwa
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When you Google “kerning”, every instance of the word has a large amount of kerning
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@terkelg
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Avada Kedavra
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@terkelg
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Some sort of UI feedback would be nice🍔
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@localhost_5173 Hold my beer ....
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