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Hello, I make
things.
interfaces.
software.
products.
stuff.
things.

My name is Jake Holman. I've been doing software stuff for ages. I'm one of those coding, designing, product people. 🤹

✍️ Here's some stuff I've recently written about

Creating and serving image blur placeholders

Particularly when images make up a significant portion of the page experience, a perceived performance trick to keep up your sleeve is making use of blur placeholders..

Detecting when an element becomes sticky

Want to style a sticky element differently when it becomes sticky, or simply run some code when it becomes sticky? You can't do it with CSS alone, but there is a way...

You should overcommunicate pending state

As a sufferer of "having slow internet", I'm appreciating the feedback of when something is happening in interfaces now more than ever.

🧑‍💻 I've made some free and open source components

Cells

Select and edit values across a spreadsheet-like grid of cells.

Range

Set a minimum and maximum value using interactive sliders.

Stepper

Increment or decrement a numerical value, with step controls.

🧰 And some tools and apps you might like

Every number format, for every locale

numberformat.app

A tiny web-based tool to display number formats in every locale

Sign up and auth, super quick

next-auth-template

A Next.js template with auth already done, so you can get to building