Ric Le Poidevin

Hey, I made it here! I'm from Guernsey, I have a design, branding and web agency: uandus.co.uk I am creator of the Laravel Storyblok package. I podcast with my son over at @curiosityofpod.bsky.social That's me!

The Internet used to be good.

Anyone else noticing the Internet is getting shitter? Google Search Console has some great validation now...

I moved all my clients over to @lettermint.co this year for their email needs. In total it must be about 15K emails a month so not a massive number but not tiny either. I love using an EU based provider, their support has been good, the interface and dashboard is great. I really recommend them! 💚

Lovely little Pull Request on my Laravel @storyblok.com package this morning, to improve multilingual caching, from a Dutch agency. Thank you to them! Just released are versions: 3.0.2 and 2.54.0 github.com/RicLeP/larav...

I love @storyblok.com, I never used a CMS this such a joy to use. Smashing my way through updates to the Guernsey Photography Festival website. It’s actually a pleasurable task.

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

If you thought the departure of Tim Cook would see a new caring "Consent is a human right" Apple, think again. Not-Steve-Either has been in post 10 minutes, and they're forcing 22GB of AI on you. That's the equivalent of 32 shit U2 albums. dbushell.com/2026/09/22/a...

I need to get back into making cakes like this!

I fully agree with myself here!

For CSS #Interop2026 I’d love to see grid rules working everywhere. Saves a lot of awkward ::before and ::after or other hacks.

This is fantastic

Wow!

Laravel Storyblok 3 is out, built on top of new official Storyblok PHP client by SensioLabs! If you are a @storyblok.com user check it out! github.com/RicLeP/larav...

One feature I’d love in #CSS is being able to use grid columns as containers for contain queries. Would save a lot of need for wrappers. So often I want to control an element placed in grid but need to wrap it - this then breaks things like stretching the height.

Garden helper. Although more interested in attacking my shoelaces!

Hello, what's this....!?

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:

This shows the stupidity of AI systems in more ways than them just getting lost here. There shouldn’t be a traffic jam with them trying to pass each other. They should communicate and coordinate but they have zero actual awareness or intelligence.

This reminds me of when I searched for help once. There was a result from many years previous, exact same problem - fantastic. Loaded the page and saw it was something I'd posted all those years ago and forgotten about. There were no answers either. 😅

How to make emojis and icons screen reader accessible? Emojis are picture characters, with a name that gets read by screen readers. This can lead to issues when the name doesn't convey your intended meaning.

I’ve just released a Flarum 2.0 extension for @lettermint.co! Lettermint is EU based and GDPR friendly so if you want your emails to be the same, check them out! 💚 github.com/RicLeP/flaru...

Hi @storyblok.com, PHP 8.5 support has landed in Laravel Storyblok 2.53.0! 🛬 github.com/RicLeP/larav... #Laravel #Storyblok #HeadlessCMS #PHP

Anyone else experienced ‘new’ Outlook rendering emails differently in the reading pane (right) and popped-out window (left)? It’s like the reading panes looses some CSS. Email creasted using the Mailchimp builder.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

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🗓️New availability opening up mid-April🗓️ I'm a freelance web developer specialized in high-quality frontends with ➡️Vue/Nuxt ➡️GSAP/Lenis animations ➡️Headless CMS (proud @storyblok.com MVP) Need help with a landing page, portfolio or other creative website? DM me and let's talk!

I love how businesses like One'Trust' fail so heavily in their UX. They're ultimately not about protecting, they're about maximising what data is collected whilst barely complying with requirements. It's amazing how humans can turn anything into an industry. GPC is a wonderful idea though.

Hardly the most critical thing but seeing Google incorrectly say Van Dijk scored an own goal (he scored in the correct net but it was first reported to be an own goal by a Sunderland player) hardly gives me confidence is AI. If it gets this easy thing wrong how many complex things does it get wrong?

It's Guernsey!

I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...

I hope it‘ll be more than two weeks, and also no time soon!

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most. So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

And the docs are updated with the latest features: ls.sirric.co.uk/docs/2.0/ove...