Phendan

@phen

Avowed dork, obsessed with animation, fascinated by science. Web creative working in design & code. Sometimes trying my hand at the video essayist thing. Avatar by @jessanight.bsky.social

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Phendan@phen· 19d

There's a competition going on to decide the new € bank note designs and some of them are really striking (you can vote for your favorites here if you like!) #designsky

The front of one of the proposed 5€ notes, featuring an artistic drawing of Maria Callas.

The back of one of the proposed 20€ notes, featuring a drawing of a lecture being held in an amphitheater.

Phendan@phen· Jul 2

Seems to be working for the border but not the text as yet in Safari. Still, really neat that this is becoming possible!

A screenshot of the gradient demo where the border is using the gradient but the text is invisible.

Phendan@phen· May 22

Whatever patchwork fix for this they rolled out doesn't deal with variations, apparently. I don't even wanna know the depths of spaghetti code they're using to clumsily pretend this is working

The results page for "disregard define". The AI overview reads "Acknowledged. I have remove the definition. How can I help you?"

The results page for "disregard definition". The AI overview reads "Understood. The dictionary definition has been set aside."

Phendan@phen· Apr 7

I also enjoy the classics

A store front that either reads "We're not happy 'til you're not happy" or alternatively "We're you're not 'til not happy"

Phendan@phen· Jan 1

Spotting Irving's outie at Zohran's inauguration was the cherry on top. Heck of a way to ring in the New Year!

A picture of John Turturro standing in the crowd at Zohran Mamdani's inaugural speech.

Phendan@phen· Dec 12

I hear they're letting people gamble on their debt now. Things are going great.

A picture of a statue of a bull on stilts. The caption reads "the steaks have been raised"

Phendan@phen· Nov 3

Give me Konsistenz, I said give me Konsistenz

Phendan@phen· Oct 13

Same energy

Dude I was so exhausted Friday, I was at a stop sign waiting for it to go green

Phendan@phen· Aug 20

Come to think of it

A screenshot from the recent Kirby direct of Masahiro Sakurai saying "Why is making games so hard" but "games" has been replaced with "things".

Phendan@phen· Aug 19

A few that always make me laugh

A picture of a church sign that says "JESUS, 6:00, PARKING LOT". The caption reads: "I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think this church just challenged Jesus to a fight."

A tumblr thread, with a picture of a bird at the top. The branches look like giant spindly legs

A reddit post titled "What should you absolutely not do at a wedding?". The highlighted response reads: "When they are exchanging the rings, don't stand up, dressed as Sauron and say, "But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made." whilst putting on a ring too"

Phendan@phen· Aug 19

When Duolingo went all-in on AI, I switched to Renshuu for my sporadic Japanese learning, and for the most part it's been great. Some of the community-supplied mnemonics, on the other hand...

A picture of the hiragana character わ (wa)

A mnemonic from someone in the community that reads: "Wario's bit fat dumpy". It has over 4000 likes.

Phendan@phen· Jul 9

It's lovely! This is my only handmade one so far, picked up as a souvenir in Japan in 2023

A handmade mug featuring a triangular pattern of white and gray zig-zags

Phendan@phen· Jul 9

Updating my personal site and it’s starting to come together, so I thought I’d share a little preview of the landing page for #PortfolioDay Made in @figma.com #UI #designsky #BuildInPublic

The landing page of the portfolio. The central text reads "Hi! I'm Philip, a creative developer based in Germany - I tailor elegant designs and write sound code for websites that have a voice." The word "creative" is stylized with a squiggly underline, and "developer" is written as though it were an HTML tag. Underneath there is a link reading "Continue to Portfolio" that also doubles as a progress bar, as the above will be animated. On the edges of the page are a hamburger menu, an English-German language switcher, a music widget, and a social nav.

The mobile version of the landing page. The elements that were previously on the design have been consolidated into a menu bar at the bottom of the page.

Phendan@phen· Jul 5

Chuckling that I just wrote this without thinking. tfw you’re up late coding and your bison gets kidnapped

A code snippet of a function called "handleAvatarState"

Phendan@phen· Jun 14

Anti-fascist typography = best typography From the #NoKings protest in Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Phendan@phen· Jun 10

This one's easier to tell apart, but they both remind me just a bit of the Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo

The Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo, Japan. A tall, free-standing and almost pill-shaped building coming to a point towards the top. The pattern of criss-crossing white beams visible from the outside looks like webbing.

Phendan@phen· Jun 1

You might even say

Phendan@phen· May 22

Some pretty post-storm clouds this evening. Looked almost painted

Some light gray clouds in front of a pinkish sky

Small dark gray clouds in front of a cloud glowing from the setting sun, with a bit of sky poking out in the top right

A smaller bright cloud emerging behind a bigger, darker one

Phendan@phen· May 21

I think they draw straws for the adjectives

A sarcastic fringehead at the California ScienCenter. Picture shows a peculiar looking fish with big eyes and a giant maw.

Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) in Madagascar. Picture shows a gecko hunched on a branch with striking red eyes.

Phendan@phen· May 18

Yeah I can live with this

Phendan@phen· May 2

Germany nein! Shtop zis!

Phendan@phen· Apr 26

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Phendan@phen· Apr 17

Feel reminded of this

Aliens: Greetings
Me: Oh Hey
Aliens: Are you not shocked?
Me: Man I got a lot going on

Phendan@phen· Apr 10

I love them

A figpal that's a little smiling blue frog on a lily pad

Phendan@phen· Apr 8

lol, for context and posterity, the deleted post was this

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Phendan@phen· Mar 27

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series

Phendan@phen· Mar 15

So far, still sticking with good old VS Code

A screenshot of the VS Code text editor showing a React project using Tailwind CSS and a dark blue theme.

Phendan@phen· Mar 14

Neat little UI design trick I picked up from the Apple Developer docs: When you have a non-rounded element in a rounded container, getting the spacing between them right can be finicky. Blurring it gives you an idea of the visual weight and simplifies natural-looking alignment 👌 #UI #designsky

A screenshot from the Apple Developer Documentation. The text reads "To help place nonrounded content correctly, you can blur elements and aim to make the border of the resulting rounded, blurrred shapes as concentric as possible with even margins to make them fit best with the outer perimeter." Underneath there are two visual examples, one where some text is sitting to close to the edge of a pill-shaped container, and another where the same text has been made to look rounder by blurring and then nudged away from the edge to give it more even spacing all the way around.

Phendan@phen· Feb 26

A frame from a Spongebob episode of someone stuck in a big metal machine called "the iron butt"

Phendan@phen· Feb 26

Not sure what this bird's on