Simon W

@simonw.xyz

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UK web dev - mostly Laravel. Svelte is great though. I'm a drummer, vegan, engaged, and have rabbits. Level 2 British Sign Language done! Get creative and learn stuff, always.

A series of emails with extremely dodgy looking sender names, each with a very dodgy looking pdf attachment, using non-latin characters in English phrases like "Final Warning" and "Payment RequireD".
A demo webpage is scrolled down, showing a series of card like elements in shades of teal sliding up and overlapping each other.
The cursor moves across the page, a dashed white line trails behind. The cursor spells out the word Simon. The dashes animate along the drawn path in a loop.
Code demonstrating a php constructor accepting an iterable, rather than an array | Traversable union type. The iterable items are then used in a foreach loop.
Shows a component's blade view. Each item in the items collection is output using Blade::renderComponent($item).
An example Navbar component, the constructor sets the items property to a collection of Link and Dropdown components (Home, About, Services Dropdown, etc).
A screenshot of code taken from the laravel docs, showing how middleware can be used to add the current URL and a trace ID to the request's Context.
A hard to read clock face, as shown in the quoted post using conical gradients and masks to create 3 main segments around a donut shape, but now the colours are different to indicate am or pm.
A clockface represented by a donut shape. There are three clear segments, where conical gradients have overlapped. The "reset point" in each gradient creates lines denoting the seconds, minutes, and hours... Though, it's unclear from the screenshot which gradient line is which.
A messy desk with a zsa voyager split keyboard at the front, the RGB lighting is red on the left hand half and blue on the right hand half. Towards the back of the desk is a matrix layout 60 key keyboard, and to the back right a keychron keyboard.
The "Create Account" screen, trying to register for the account name I had previously used before setting up a custom domain name, shows an error message "Reserved handle". Success!
Examples of using backed enums with the addition of trans, options, trans choice, and options choice methods. The output below displays a translated string, and a collection of translated cases. Magic!
This post's text content, in a text area input on the left has been translated into the following, on the right: Roobmoobndoobr, moobkoob doobmb joobkoob proobjoobcts tooboob. Noobt oobvoobrythoobng nooboobds toob choobngoob thoob woobrld. A button below says "click to copy".
The squad of 7 prototype frogs from the front. They range in size and shape. One is particularly round and lacking in froglike features but we love them anyway.
My completed septembit template. 30 pixel art animations with a 4 colour pallete. 27 small canvases and 3 large ones. Each day had a different theme, with the overarching theme of Monster Maker (Pokémon inspired pieces).
A large silvery-black furred rabbit flopped on his side in a wooden cabinet, his head lolls over the edge of the cabinet base onto the rug.
A small ortholinear keyboard with a 12 x 5 grid of keys. The top right corner has a rotary encoder. The keycaps are mostly white with black legends with a DSA profile. The case is black.