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Custom T-Shirts

It's easier than you think to design your own T-Shirt. You can upload your logo or artwork and print one off tees for less than £20

Firefox get info

In Firefox you can cmd+i to get info on the current tab; which shows copy-able meta tags and easy to grab images/video/svg etc

Why we chose Astro over Nuxt

We've shipped dozens of Nuxt websites, so why build our own website with Astro?

10 lesser-known Mac web development apps

These Mac web development apps may be niche but they are great additions to any webdev toolbox

Learning by doing - Vue devs build a Svelte Single Page App

We've been looking for an excuse to try out Svelte so we wrote a canvas-to-video web app. These are our first impressions.

Our video toolbox

A selection of useful video editing tools

Getting Puppeteer to work in Netlify functions

We had quite a hassle getting Puppeteer working in Netlify functions, but we did and here is proof in a demo project.

SVG Gobbler browser extension

We use this browser extension to grab SVG images from webpages almost every day

FFMpeg settings for a web-friendly video alternative to gif

Thinking of using a gif on your website? Use a video instead, with these FFmpeg settings

Using Astro server islands and Cloudflare geo headers for dynamic region-based content

A client needed to show different currencies and prices depending on the region they were visiting from. Here's how we used Cloudflare and Astro server islands to do that

blackspike astro landing page

A free, modern, Astro landing page theme made with Tailwind to help kick start your next Astro project. Built with cutting edge HTML, CSS and Astro features.

Make custom macOS apps: creating our own web development tools

We use ai to write single-use AppleScript mac applications to automate routine web development tasks. Example: a drag-and-drop app to optimise and encode website-ready video.

We vibe-coded a Nuxt 4 PWA. A concerned webdev agency's initial reactions.

As a web design agency in the business of coding web apps, we tried prompting out a flashcard app to probe the state of ai coding.

blackspike wallpapers

We made a blackspike-branded wallpaper in Blender, grab it and the .blend file here