a face drawn by a modestly talented man-child

Hi there, I'm Rafał Pastuszak. Untested is my digital garden. It's where I learn, share what I've learned, and work with the garage door up (111).

untested like undead, so not not-tested, but in a limbo causing constant fear and anxiety, boooo!

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  1. February 2025

    1. Let's Hold Hands
    2. Link In A Box - On Trust and 2-Hour Projects
    3. Chthonic Companion
    4. Insomnia, Control

  2. January 2025

    1. Default Apps - from 2023 to 2025

  3. November 2024

    1. Ensō Roadmap (2024)
    2. Gregglogger
    3. Sketch - Ensō Coffeeshop Mode

  4. October 2024

    1. Celebrating World Egg Day
    2. Kepasa (and a bonus gift for Notion)

  5. September 2024

    1. xitter.png - privacy-friendly embeds and one-way mirrors

  6. July 2024

    1. 112

  7. June 2024

    1. Weekly Notes #20: 111!
    2. Just Some Innocent Gradient Fun
    3. $ cp example.env .env (a.k.a. adventures of the Bun-man)
    4. Weekly Notes #19
    5. LLM-powered Tools I'm Actually Using
    6. Disclaimer

  8. May 2024

    1. Weekly Notes #16
    2. Defaults Matter, Don't Assume Consent
    3. Weekly Notes #17
    4. Sandboxes, Games, and Play
    5. Weekly Notes #16
    6. Two Minute Week
    7. Fig Tree Brushes
    8. Fig

  9. February 2024

    1. Aye-aye
    2. Weekly Notes #15
    3. Kill your darlings, their bones are the best fertiliser
    4. 2-2-2 Project Scoping Technique
    5. Weekly Notes #14
    6. Tip of the Tongue and Handmade Software

  10. January 2024

    1. Spikes
    2. Talk to the Blog
    3. Jeremy Bent-ham
    4. Weekly Notes #13
    5. Summarise My Weekly Notes (With Llamas)
    6. New Week
    7. TouchDesigner (and Mr Noto, the Talking Ball)
    8. Zhoozh
    9. Weekly Notes #12
    10. Bootleg T-Shirts - December Batch
    11. Say Hi
    12. How I Use Analytics With My Indie Projects
    13. Why is it So Hard to Respond to Positive Comments
    14. Weekly Notes #11
    15. Sleepy Safari
    16. FAQs are a Dark Orange Flag
    17. Sit. Offline Mode
    18. Montaigne

  11. December 2023

    1. Patreon and Ownership
    2. Cacio e pepe with black garlic
    3. What's a Peach?
    4. Places to Find Indie Web Content
    5. How I Make My Bootleg T-shirts
    6. My Bootleg T-shirts
    7. Project Cemetery
    8. My Now Page
    9. Weekly Notes #10
    10. Texas Friendship Massacre
    11. Shader Park and 2D
    12. Building a private, clutter-free browser on top of Safari
    13. Midnight Shader
    14. Weekly Notes #9
    15. Shader Park is Kinda Neat
    16. Midnight Ramen
    17. Auto-hibernate Subscriptions
    18. Find Your Tribe
    19. Weekly Notes #8

  12. November 2023

    1. Communication is Action
    2. Fermi Paradox (for 35-Year-Olds)
    3. Default Apps 2023
    4. Portuguese Orange, Persian Portugal
    5. Weekly Notes #7
    6. Abusing and reviewing Obsidian Publish
    7. How I Use Obsidian to Publish These Notes
    8. How to optimise images for Obsidian Publish
    9. MISS – Make It Stupid, Simple
    10. Weekly Notes #6
    11. Share your unfinished, scrappy work
    12. Web and Feedback Loops
    13. Heart of Dorkness
    14. Bird-knife
    15. Weekly Notes #5
    16. Leading or Line Height - a Measured Response
    17. Spiritual Volleyball
    18. Why I Didn't Study Computer Science
    19. Sit., part 2 – devlog 001
    20. Weekly Notes #4
    21. Bless this Mess
    22. Night Rider

  13. October 2023

    1. The Janusz I Live In
    2. Weekly Notes #3
    3. Sit., (together) devlog 002 – Space Kalimba
    4. Obsidian for Vampires
    5. Proteus - Uncertainty is the only Certainty
    6. Sit., (together) devlog 001
    7. Weekly Notes #2
    8. Here's a List of Toys
    9. Natural Gradients in CSS
    10. Alternatives to Adobe
    11. Vercel, Svelte and Doom-Driven Development
    12. Weekly Notes #1
    13. Stream of Consciousness Morning Notes
    14. Sit., (together)
    15. Medieval Content Farm and Procedural Cheese
    16. Journey
    17. 40
    18. Be kind, be curious
    19. Demon Tamagotchis
    20. Chilli for Your Mom
    21. Things to support my own well-being – a wishlist
    22. Dogs and Palimpsests

  14. September 2023

    1. retrospective.png
    2. The modern Web has lost the User Agent
    3. Projects and apps I built for my own well-being
    4. "I understand"
    5. Dog mode
    6. Physical uncolouring book
    7. How to Draw a Janusz
    8. Instead or writing a comment, write a post and link it
    9. Visual Snapshot Tests, Cheap Bastard Edition™
    10. 111
a dog saying: but wait! there is more!
a giant foot-shaped snail with a house on its back. the house is still in construction, with a big crane towering above it The image is a stylized black-and-white illustration. In the lower left corner, there is a small, cozy-looking house with smoke rising from its chimney. The smoke, however, does not dissipate into the air but instead forms a dark, looming cloud. Within the cloud, the silhouette of a large, menacing face is visible, with its eyes and nose peeking through the darkness. The creature, perhaps a cat, appears to be watching over the house ominously, creating a sense of foreboding or unease.