Frills - Blog & experiments

Frills - Blog & experiments https://frills.dev/blog Personal blog and experiments from Frills en-GB Stardew Valley, In Person https://frills.dev/blog/2026/february/stardew-valley/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2026/february/stardew-valley/ Actual Burnout https://frills.dev/blog/2025/november/actual-burnout/ Processing my time spent signed off work Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:01:43 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/november/actual-burnout/ Indie Web Burnout https://frills.dev/blog/2025/september/indie-web-burnout/ Talking about where my head is at with this website and my energy. Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:19:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/september/indie-web-burnout/ Circadian Rebellion https://frills.dev/blog/2025/june/circadian-rebellion/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/june/circadian-rebellion/ Test Decap https://frills.dev/blog/2025/05/test-decap-md/ Testing Decap Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/05/test-decap-md/ Overwatching https://frills.dev/blog/2025/may/overwatching/ No Mercy. Fri, 09 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/may/overwatching/ I want a CMS https://frills.dev/blog/2025/may/i-want-a-cms/ Tired of the friction! Thu, 08 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/may/i-want-a-cms/ HTML named colors https://frills.dev/experiments/html-named-colors/ Filterable HTML named colours with colour contrast values and copy functionality Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/html-named-colors/ The Foolish Calendar https://frills.dev/blog/2025/april/april-fools-day/ An April Fools origin story Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/april/april-fools-day/ Blog Question Challenge 2025 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/march/blog-challenge/ Tagged by the lovely Xandra. Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/march/blog-challenge/ Festival of Spring and Dawn https://frills.dev/blog/2025/march/ostara-spring/ The Wheel turns to Ostara. Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/march/ostara-spring/ Ode to Dylan (my old Macbook) https://frills.dev/blog/2025/february/i-got-a-mac/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/february/i-got-a-mac/ Nice things people said https://frills.dev/experiments/nice-things-people-said/ CSS envelope of lovely messages for the 32bit.cafe Valentines 2025 challenge. Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/nice-things-people-said/ Roald Dahl’s The Witches https://frills.dev/blog/2025/january/the-witches/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/january/the-witches/ I got an iPhone https://frills.dev/blog/2025/january/i-got-an-iphone/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2025/january/i-got-an-iphone/ Legends & Lattes https://frills.dev/blog/241122-legends-lattes/ A cozy book by Travis Baldree Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/241122-legends-lattes/ Fill up your cup https://frills.dev/blog/241108-fill-up-your-cup/ A limmerick? Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/241108-fill-up-your-cup/ Gemini https://frills.dev/blog/240614-gemini/ A haiku Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240614-gemini/ Hiraeth https://frills.dev/experiments/hiraeth/ Belonging and longing and homesickness Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/hiraeth/ Shooting satellite https://frills.dev/blog/240605-shooting-satellite/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 01:27:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240605-shooting-satellite/ Why blog anonymously https://frills.dev/blog/240411-anon/ Response to Kev Quirk's 'What About Anonymous Blogging?' Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:51:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240411-anon/ Stripping down to my HTML https://frills.dev/blog/240409-css-naked/ Showing off my semantic <body>! Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:30:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240409-css-naked/ A whole year on the Indie Web https://frills.dev/blog/240404-anniversary/ Favourites, highlights and the evolution of this website Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:41:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240404-anniversary/ Porridge and tea https://frills.dev/blog/240325-breakfast/ What I eat and think about breakfast Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:05:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240325-breakfast/ Stay hydrated and give blood https://frills.dev/blog/240315-give-blood/ Tonight, I am going to go and give blood. Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240315-give-blood/ Life in Pictures https://frills.dev/blog/240216-life-in-pics/ Delciously crunchy compressed pictures. Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240216-life-in-pics/ A Welsh Valentine https://frills.dev/blog/240214-valentines/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240214-valentines/ ASCII heART https://frills.dev/experiments/valentines-ascii-heart/ A curation of hearts and love themed ASCII art for the 32bit.cafe Valentines 2024 challenge. Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/valentines-ascii-heart/ Making ASCII art accessible https://frills.dev/blog/240212-accessible-ascii/ A little how-to, based on W3C recommendations Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240212-accessible-ascii/ This website is personal https://frills.dev/blog/070224-this-website-is-personal-girls/ My thoughts, my feelings, my perceptions Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/070224-this-website-is-personal-girls/ Bookmark dump https://frills.dev/blog/240109-bookmark-dump/ A new year digital spring clean. Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/240109-bookmark-dump/ Sharings from Sara Soueidan's Practical Accessibility course https://frills.dev/blog/231213-practical-accessibility/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/231213-practical-accessibility/ Edit everything with this bookmarklet https://frills.dev/blog/231207-edit-everything/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/231207-edit-everything/ The Silence Of The Girls https://frills.dev/blog/230911-silence-of-the-girls/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/230911-silence-of-the-girls/ How to deal with the change of seasons https://frills.dev/blog/231102-dealing-with-seasons/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/231102-dealing-with-seasons/ Weeknotes for October 2023 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-october/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-october/ CSS Ghost https://frills.dev/experiments/css-ghost/ Pure CSS ghost created for the 32bit.cafe Halloween 2023 challenge. Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/css-ghost/ Adding moderation to Virtual Observer's comment widget https://frills.dev/blog/231023-add-moderation-to-comment-widget/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/231023-add-moderation-to-comment-widget/ My developer story https://frills.dev/blog/231021-my-developer-story/ A brief history of how I got into web development Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/231021-my-developer-story/ CSS Tarot card https://frills.dev/experiments/css-tarot-card/ Pure CSS Tarot card 'Three of Swords' depicting a heart pierced by three swords, surrounded by clouds and rain. Using and extending CodePen's challenge palette 'Perfect Purple'. The card flips on hover! Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/css-tarot-card/ Vegan Banana Bread https://frills.dev/blog/230928-vegan-banana-bread/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/230928-vegan-banana-bread/ CSS Skull https://frills.dev/experiments/css-skull/ Pure CSS skull, he's kinda cute. I made this in 2018, and is definitely due for a rebuild/refactor Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/css-skull/ Weeknotes for September 2023 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-september/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-september/ Changing background colour with range input https://frills.dev/experiments/change-background-colour-with-range-input/ Use the range input to change the colour of the background Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/experiments/change-background-colour-with-range-input/ Weeknotes for August 2023 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-august/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-august/ Tiny things https://frills.dev/blog/230727-tiny-things/ I adore tiny things. Here is a list of tiny things I love. Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/230727-tiny-things/ Weeknotes for July 2023 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-july/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-july/ Deadly Mushrooms https://frills.dev/blog/230627-mushrooms/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/230627-mushrooms/ Thoughts on forest-bathing https://frills.dev/blog/230615-forest-bathing/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/230615-forest-bathing/ Weeknotes for June 2023 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-june/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/2023-june/ A little dev rabbit hole https://frills.dev/blog/230525-dev-rabbit-hole/ Recording some interesting links I found on a short but inspired link spree. Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://frills.dev/blog/230525-dev-rabbit-hole/