Bethwel K

Three sliders writing straight into CSS custom properties, so the whole card restyles as you move them.

Nothing re-renders. The browser recalculates what depends on the variable and nothing else, which is why it stays smooth. #css #javascript

Wanasema usilale na shida. Mimi nalala na bug. Asubuhi inakuwa imejisuluhisha ama imeleta marafiki.

Long one about failing.

My first business lasted eleven months. Printing and branding, 2022. We were good at the work and terrible at being paid for it, which turns out to be the entire job.

I closed it owing two suppliers. Both of them took payment plans...

Idea, free, take it: a service that tells Kenyan landlords when their rent is above market for the area, using actual listing data. Half of this country is overpaying out of politeness. #ideas

Something I keep noticing about building for the web from here.

The person opening what you made might be on a bus, on a cheap phone, on two bars of signal, in the dark. Not on your laptop with your fibre and your 27 inch monitor.

Every decision about wei...

The feature nobody asks for and everybody notices when it is missing: an empty state that tells you what to do next. #design #ideas

Still the fastest tool I own.

Every planning app I have tried wanted me to pick a project, a tag and a due date before I could write down the thought. By then the thought is gone. #ideas

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of it in Egyptian tombs, over 3,000 years old, still edible. Low water, high acidity, and bees add an enzyme that makes hydrogen peroxide. #science

A typewriter effect in about fifteen lines of JavaScript. It types, pauses, deletes, and moves to the next phrase.

The cursor is a CSS animation, not part of the string, which is the bit people usually get wrong. #javascript