Paweł Grzybek

@pawelgrzybek
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I’m a software developer from Poland living in Northampton, UK. I’m a web standards enthusiast, accessibility advocate, and simplicity guardian. The guy behind the Northampton Dev Club meetup. After-hours hip hop head, funky records collector, and photographer.
Websitehttps://pawelgrzybek.com

Hey all CSS wizards. I need your help.

I would love this bg pattern to be squares instead of little circles (radial-gradient). Is that even possible using pure CSS?

https://codepen.io/pawelgrzybek/pen/OPbVNgN

I have seen that on the ATProto website, but they use SVG for it.
https://atproto.com

@kevinpowell @css @bramus @chriscoyier 🙏

#css

bg dot pattern

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nn1dev/116498258987684888

I had tons of fun talking to Jamie and shooting some photos for his interview. Good fella he is!

✨ New post

Classic end of the month tradition that I have followed for over a decade now. A collection of links that I found particularly interesting in the past month and also some music recommendation for funky groove lovers. Enjoy ❣️

“Top picks — 2026 April”

https://pawelgrzybek.com/top-picks-2026-april/

Top picks — 2026 April | pawelgrzybek.com

Other than an absolute banger of an album recommendation, I have a few really good links for you all this month. Great post about the classic game micro-optimisations, a primer to understand how email actually works, a few classic AI rants and some more.

pawelgrzybek.com

You heard it here first: Mastodon 5.0 (eta Oct-Dec 2026) will introduce major improvements to the core user experience. We're making Mastodon the most human-centred software on the #SocialWeb.

That’s where you come in.

Discovery Week 🗓️ 11-15 May 2026

Join our Head of Design @imanijoy for a jam-packed 5 day sprint inviting stakeholders from within and beyond Mastodon to weigh in on the future of the product.

See how you can get involved and contribute: https://app.hi.events/events/6360/mastodon-design-team

Mastodon Design Team - Events

Discover upcoming events by Mastodon Design Team.

Hey. I don't care too much about the ATProto, but I like the website a lot. It is full of little nuggets. I like good looking websites like this.

https://atproto.com

AT Protocol - AT Protocol

The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized, and high-performance network for building social applications.

AT Protocol
CSS's light-dark() now accepts images, making it simpler to define alternate values for a dark color scheme. Here's how it works:

Deezer reports that 75 000 tunes uploaded to the platform daily are AI-generated. And Deezer is far from being the biggest music streaming platforms. This is awful!

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch

Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1% and 3% of the total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

TechCrunch

✨ New post

“Difftastic — my new favourite diff viewer”

https://pawelgrzybek.com/difftastic-my-new-favourite-diff-viewer/

#git #diff

Difftastic — my new favourite diff viewer | pawelgrzybek.com

Difftastic works fundamentally different than Delta, and can be used as an individual diff tool to compare files/folders or as a git diff pager.

pawelgrzybek.com

This is beautiful music. Beautiful!

https://youtu.be/ZCPLV15tKlI

anaiis - Deus Deus (Official Video)

YouTube