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408
Account age
9 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Paul Armstrong
Known for
3 views
Is there any way to prevent the View Transitions API from blurring the area where the transition is/did happen? Maybe most people won't notice, but I'm irrationally annoyed by this. See GIF + static frame
2 views
Video post
2 views
Take a guess at what date I replaced an old and crufty Wordpress site with a new and highly optimized SolidStart application?
2 views
I keep finding myself rebuilding the Avatar fallback component to show initials when the user does not have a photo. Here's a fully scalable implementation that makes the text mask the background color and show the underlaying background photo.
It's actually a bit simpler than I thought it'd be, tha
📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2017
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Is there any way to prevent the View Transitions API from blurri · 3 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.31 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 9 image · 3 video.
Follower / following
4.8×
Follows 85 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Is there any way to prevent the View Transitions API from blurring the area where the transition is/did happen? Maybe most people won't notice, but I'm irrationally annoyed by this. See GIF + static frame
Who are you and why are you doing this just once a week? What's your goal?
It's always bursting requests every five minutes at a single (mostly static) URL from random Azure cloud IP addresses and then just stops at or on an hour.
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If `0` is about 75% across this bar, what's the lowest value Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) can be? I can't imagine you can have a negative layout shift…
Take a guess at what date I replaced an old and crufty Wordpress site with a new and highly optimized SolidStart application?
Arc browser created this auto-updating folder in my sidebar with links to recent/open pull requests on GitHub. I love it! 😍
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This blurring effect is even more apparent and annoying on edges like this.
Finally playing with the ViewTransitions API. Dropping this little wrapper into a SolidJS app with Solid Router and pages will automatically transition nicely.
https://gist.github.com/paularmstrong/55dba2236340e8c7202cfca64f1a8ad6
I keep finding myself rebuilding the Avatar fallback component to show initials when the user does not have a photo. Here's a fully scalable implementation that makes the text mask the background color and show the underlaying background p…
Can't remember what that flag was to do something with one of the tools? Every single command accepts `--help` or `-h` for writing help documentation straight to the terminal.
Using the Docgen plugin, we can even output all of our command …
In oneRepo, we can create commands in JavaScript (or TS) that get directly embedded into the `one` CLI. This gives us access to all of tools that oneRepo itself uses for determinism, subprocessing, batching, logging, and much more.
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🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mstdn.io
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Apr 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
:rainbowthink: Principal Software Engineer — JavaScript, node.js & JS Infrastructure. Previously: Twitter web (RIP). Mostly just here to be old man yelling at cloud. https://paularmstrong.dev/
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