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Posts tagged #tooling — Page 3
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
tag: #tooling
developmentJun 28, 2026· 3 min
Grimicorn Neon: When a Calm Theme Goes Loud
The high-voltage variant of Grimicorn keeps every semantic role and swaps in eight electric hexes. Here's what changes, what doesn't, and the contrast…
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developmentJun 27, 2026· 3 min
Building Grimicorn: One Palette, Fourteen Tools
How I turned a single calm, low-fatigue color palette into matching dark and light themes for VS Code, terminals, Obsidian, Claude Code and ten other tools…
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developmentJun 22, 2026· 3 min
CSS @property: Typed, Animatable Custom Properties
Unregistered CSS custom properties can't animate — they just snap. @property fixes that by giving the browser a type, a default, and an inheritance rule…
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developmentJun 21, 2026· 3 min
CSS @scope: Component-Scoped Styles Are Now Native
CSS @scope reached full browser support in December 2025 — here's how to use it to write component-scoped styles without CSS Modules, BEM, or a build step.
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developmentJun 21, 2026· 4 min
Turning a Base M4 Mac Mini Into an Always-On Automation Box
Why I bought the cheapest M4 Mac mini, configured it to never sleep, and wired it up so I can run and control all my scheduled automations from my phone.
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developmentJun 4, 2026· 3 min
SvelteKit Remote Functions: Goodbye, API Boilerplate
SvelteKit's remote functions let you call type-safe server code straight from your components — no +server.ts endpoints, no fetch wrappers, no manually…
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developmentJun 2, 2026· 3 min
Tailwind CSS v4: Ditch the Config File, Embrace @theme
Tailwind CSS v4 moves design token configuration out of tailwind.config.js and into your CSS with the @theme directive — here's what that means for your…
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developmentMay 30, 2026· 2 min
JavaScript's using Keyword: Automatic Resource Cleanup in ES2026
ES2026 introduces the using and await using keywords for automatic resource cleanup — no more forgetting to close that database connection or file handle in…
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developmentMay 26, 2026· 3 min
Astro Actions: Type-Safe Server Functions Without the Boilerplate
Astro Actions let you define backend functions once and call them from HTML forms or client JavaScript with full type safety — no REST endpoints, no manual…
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