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felix.gripe
designer/dev currently in… İstanbul. vegetable rights and peace. blog https://felix.gripe work https://blackspike.com
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finished the second half of Constantinople by Edmondo De Amicis, ⭐️⭐️ felix.gripe/blog/constan... #booksky #review #istanbul #constantinople

#pera #istanbul

added a latest pixelfed photos page to my blog felix.gripe/photos code: bsky.app/profile/blac...

update: pretty good beans bsky.app/profile/feli... #istanbul #beans

Authorities warn of extreme heat in İstanbul bianet.org/haber/istanb...

Book review: Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk, ⭐️⭐️. Descriptions of his adolescence, and Istanbul's post-Ottoman collapse into poverty and relative irrelevance in the same areas that I'm residing in. felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #book #booksky #orhanPamuk #istanbul

#design #ux #istanbul

Some of my favourite photos I’ve taken of #istanbul in this one, not to toot one’s own horn 📯 bsky.app/profile/feli...

In which I discover Yildiz park, Yoros castle, the Black Sea, and an exciting potato district 🥔 felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #istanbul #turkiye #weeknotes #yorosCastle #yildiz #potatoes

Nine years ago today the UK voted to leave the EU. Since then our economy has shrunk, our creative industries have been damaged and our freedoms curtailed. Now is the time to be having mature conversations about rejoining the EU and repairing the damage done by Brexit.

In which I discover Yildiz park, Yoros castle, the Black Sea, and an exciting potato district 🥔 felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #istanbul #turkiye #weeknotes #yorosCastle #yildiz #potatoes

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Taksim'de barikatların yerine bakarak takvimi okuyabiliyoruz: Apartman önlerine kadar kurulduysa 1 Mayıs, sokak aralarındaysa 8 Mart, cadde başlarındaysa Onur Haftası... #OnurHaftası

We made ourselves a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender. Grab it, and the .blend file here. Or don't. www.blackspike.com/blog/blacksp... #blender #wallpaper #design #3D #graphicDesign #blackspike

#istanbul pixelfed.social/p/felixtheha...

Should you get tasked with designing a #PPT deck, install the super handy and free #PowerPoint Toolbar – it places all the design tools right up in the toolbar. It's by Slidor, a french company cursed to walk the earth designing in PowerPoint for sins unknown www.slidor.agency/toolbar-powe...

my morning runs would be a lot faster if i didn't have to keep stopping to take photos 📷 Gülhane Park, the old gardens of Topkapı Palace, and the view from haliç metro station over the bosphorus #istanbul

can't get over this amazing triffid I saw yesterday. smelled amazing too. anyone know what it is? #botany #istanbul #whatIsThisThing

The colourful houses of Balat, Macka Park, Pamuk's place, a half marathon, repeatedly visiting the best pub in Istanbul and a wealth of cats. felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #istanbul #turkiye #turkiye #weeknotes #cats #pubs #orhanPamuk #bosphorus #balat

The colourful houses of Balat, Macka Park, Pamuk's place, a half marathon, repeatedly visiting the best pub in Istanbul and a wealth of cats. felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #istanbul #turkiye #turkiye #weeknotes #cats #pubs #orhanPamuk #bosphorus #balat

some colour the sky above taksim mosque yesterday evening #istanbul

Was filling out a work form on a portal and –I don't mean to distrub anyone too much (especially over the weekend)– but the 8 and the 3 were upside down.

The relentless discourse about #ai agents coming for our web dev jobs has finally progressed us to the acceptance stage. So, we experimented with vibe-coding a #Nuxt 4 PWA using #Cursor, and blogged about the experience here www.blackspike.com/blog/vibe-co... TLDR we're doomed, but not just yet.

Tangentially celebrating Eid al-Adha in a toasty İstanbul with friends ferries and gigs felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #istanbul #turkiye #gigs #ferries #kadikoy #weeknotes #blog

Tangentially celebrating Eid al-Adha in a toasty İstanbul with friends ferries and gigs felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #istanbul #turkiye #gigs #ferries #kadikoy #weeknotes #blog

we have spent the weekend vibe-coding for the first time to see what all the fuss was about. we built a flashcard pwa for learning greek alphabet/numbers using @nuxt.com v4, @vuejs.org and @tailwindcss.com. we used cursor (also for the first time) and eleven labs to generate the audio.

jail for whoever chose the ordering for this select menu

Walked a lap of the entire Golden Horn, walked around the Rahmi Koç Museum, walked into my favourite pub and another police lockdown stopped me walking anywhere felix.gripe/blog/istanbu... #weeknotes #istanbul #turkiye

Probably time to take the Christmas decorations down now lads it 27°C, and June.

post a banger that's not in English: το σφαλμα: Pistola www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5kL... a friend made me a playlist of greek hip hop and this is my favourite bsky.app/profile/step... #rap #greekHipHop #hiphop

Solar power. A new / old picture. Made in the sea in #Brighton while waiting for starlings to arrive. Forgotten about until last week, printed this morning, sold this afternoon. Seems like an efficient way to do things. brightonphotography.com/brighton-sea-swimming

Happy Pride month! These are some photons from space as seen from my driveway. The Elephant’sTrunk Nebula in Cepheus, about 2,400 light years from Earth. #astrophotography

Timelapse of Istanbul new F4 funicular which links Aşiyan Park on Bosphorus coast to Rumeli Hisarüstü and M6 Metro line 🇹🇷 🚞 #funicular #subway #füniküler #Aşiyan #Rumeli #Hisarüstü #Istanbul #Turkey

I guess there's an account for everything. Thanks for the repost, Funimag! (the web magazine about funicular railways) bsky.app/profile/funi...

I tried to take a new timelapse video on another funicular earlier, but I'd accidently set it to slo-mo rather than timelapse, thus creating history's most tedious video. I'll just share the previous one again, it's essentially the same anyway #timelapse #istanbul