Jack Sleight

Naming things is hard. Sometimes fun. A few class names from the current website rebuild: potato, argyle, snuggly, cushion, baking, gloomy, prick.

After much procrastination and putting it on the back-burner I’m finally getting close to finishing my new website (only taken two years). This will also include a bunch of new artwork/icons for my @statamic.com addons.

I am happy to announce that Forte v1 is now available! Forte is my new library for parsing and modifying #laravel Blade. fortephp.com

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Statamic 6 is here! 🚀 A redesigned Control Panel, a modern Vue 3 + Inertia foundation, a new UI component library, a long list of architectural & performance improvements, and that's just scratching the surface. This is a new beginning, ready for what comes next. ❤️

Ever struggled to debug an intersection observer's root margin? I know I have! So I wrote a little helper that plonks a big red box over the observer's intersection area: gist.github.com/jacksleight/...

Thoroughly enjoying @joshwcomeau.com 's Whimsical Animations course! And because I wanted extra work for some reason I’m also doing alpinejs.dev versions of all the exercises.

Got that universal single-file Blade/Livewire component experiment working pretty nicely now. Here's the repo if anyone's interested: github.com/jacksleight/...

Unified component experiment continues. Blade components now use an inline class for props, so the syntax can be identical to Livewire. Now upgrading a Blade component to Livewire is as simple as switching “BladeComponent” for “LivewireComponent” and adding the Livewire things.

Tagged @statamic.bsky.social Bard Texstyle v3.5. Includes a handful of small but hopefully useful features: ✳️ Heading styles that can apply to any level 🫥 Ability to hide parts of text content 🎨 CP CSS for specific attribute values ☑️ A couple of other little extras statamic.com/addons/jacks...

So you're saying my code is perfect? That's what you're saying? Great!

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Slightly thrown by Tailwind 4 referring to JS based plugins as “legacy”. The new CSS based config is awesome, but anything requiring logic or using helpers like `flattenColorPalette` still needs to be JS based. Hope they don’t disappear one day.

Stumbled on a little CSS tip. If you need an absolute value you could use `abs`, but it’s limited availability right now. However `hypot` is newly available and: > If a single parameter is provided, the result is the absolute value of its input. Or you can just use `max`, but it's more verbose.

Loving how quick Livewire Volt + Flux make building things! Got full CRUD, searching, sorting, pagination, validation, authorisation and toasts in a relatively tiny single file component: gist.github.com/jacksleight/... Wondering what I can improve though. What have I missed?

Published a post on using my @statamic.bsky.social Distill addon to refactor content. eg. if you decide to change the structure of a set and need to update existing content to match: jacksleight.dev/posts/refact...

*sigh*

Published a quick @statamic.bsky.social field actions tip: jacksleight.dev/posts/adding...

Released a new Laravel package and @statamic.bsky.social addon: 🌄 Raster. They make it super simple to rasterise views to images. Automatic scaling, caching, protection and preview mode. Zero config (unless you need it). Laravel: github.com/jacksleight/... Statamic: statamic.com/addons/jacks...

Been working on a Laravel and Statamic package double-bill. Nearly ready.

Digging through an extremely old project (that's somehow still live). Who remembers the FamFamFam Silk icon pack?

I've just created a starter pack of Statamic community members you can follow! go.bsky.app/EwG6AoU

Just dropped @pestphp.bsky.social into an old (non-Laravel) PHP project. So nice to have such clean tests in what is otherwise some pretty “legacy” code. Love it!