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Hi new followers! 👋 I'm Geri—an illustrator and sumo-obsessed Japan lover living in the UK. I run a shop called GeriDrawsJapan.com and do illustration for a variety of clients with a focus on kids' books, websites, and more. I'm also accepting a couple of more pre-holiday commissions! hellogeri.com

It’s so freeing to be able to say substack freely here and not have to say s*bst*ck or some such thing. Substack substack substack substack substack substack https://media.tenor.com/aHyTAW8yweQAAAAC/developers-ballmer.gif?hh=180&ww=180

Loving this neue font from Pangram Pangram. Neue Corp is a variable font with geometric and grotesque elements, ranging from Condensed Thin to Extended Black. That Wide Thin weight tugs at my type heart strings 😍 🔗 https://pangrampangram.com/products/neue-corp

Getting back to YouTube over the next few weeks 😅 Need more content for aspiring designers.

I created a starter pack with designers and developers who work on component libraries and share their work publicly, so you can get inspiration or learn from them. I certainly missed many people, so if you'd like to be included, please comment below. I'll add more people over time. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

/honk

There are two NextJS 15's. There is the released one, where the default aggressive caching disabled. And there is the canary version where you can enable dynamicIO to have essentially an entirely different development system. "The app is NextJS 15." "Which NextJS 15?"

I had no idea such a site existed, and I love this so much

Alrighty then, who’s here?

Happy 25th Birthday to Neopets! 🎉 Their HTML guide was my first step into learning web development and sparked my passion for #CreativeCoding.

I've been working on some generative art to give out in Marfa

Une chance que quelqu'un va leur en parler avant que leur premiere documentation soit en studio. Une partie de la collaboration interne qui est vitale! https://media.tenor.com/2utsFw5wZnUAAAAC/in-shock.gif?hh=415&ww=498

Hahaha oh so we’re all here ok hi

It’s done! (Not in physical form yet, but we software peeps are used to dealing with digital versions anyway right?) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉

So ... are we doing this now? Because I could use some stability.

Rejoice! It finally happened! I sang “In the Shadows” after my talk at @halfstackconf.bsky.social, and I forgot how much better I sound in my head. Thank you all for putting up with me! What a joy it was to bump into @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social, who I’ve been mentioning in my slides!

Parenting is living full time on the set of Home Alone.

It’s a lot to pack for an otherwise minimalist traveler, but it always beats hotel coffee.

Living the art life

I just used feeds for the first time and I think I love them?

So good to see your growth on my all @schier.co . Stoked to have you using it 🙂 More updates coming tomorrow! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Me, a JS girlie who works on the frontend: “I wonder if @rudyfraser.com needs my help 🤔”

Self-care for me right now is watching different groups of streamers play Among Us. I don't know why, but spectating that game is hilarious to me.

This week, Lambda & ECS are celebrating 10 years! 🥳 I spoke about what building serverless means in 2024 at mine and Tom Collins's Serverless Days Cardiff keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJU00RdNoe0

I love that the Bluesky starter pack for local authorities has a wheelie bin as its icon! Always the hottest topic 🚮🗑️

if you wanna be good at something you just have to do it. “but I suck at it!” so what, just do it. And do it again. And again. And again. And then maybe you’ll still suck at it but you’ll suck more confidently and tbh nobody knows wtf they’re doing except maybe NASA so

I love that we’re in the early stages of this app where you’ll pretty much follow anyone that’s posting anything consistently and then we’ll look back in like 10 years and be like oh….i actually don’t know this person at all? We were just in the trenches together.