credits used on the glenthemes front page:

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Ten years ago today on July 16th 2015, I created glenthemes. Just to be clear: I’m NOT saying goodbye. You’re all stuck in here with me. This is a look-back on my journey, the good, the bad, the ugly, and how I ended up where I am now. This short journal is mostly written in chronological order; if you’d like to skip to the parts you’re interested in, here’s the overview in which the the titles sound suspiciously like episode names:

• humble beginnings
• how I learned to code
• glenthemes was problematic 💅
• glenthemes logo
• paid themes & pages
• landing internships
• Discord community
• powerpoint guides
• college & hackathon
• featured on Tumblr’s “Getting Started” page
• tumblr changes / mobile & NPF era
• design style & branding
• “the friends we made along the way”
• what’s next?

Keep reading

seeing people actually utilize the 100+ options I spend weeks on makes me so happy. thank you

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As of today (Apr 3rd 2026), all of my music players have been updated!

📣 What’s new:

• updated instructions for every player
• all music players can now be used on Carrd!
• all music players can be used multiple times so you’re not limited to one song
• autoplay, loop/replay and volume options for all songs
• no longer reliant on jQuery

📝 Music players masterlist:

1. Music Player #01 — slide-in player with animated bars
2. Music Player #02 — simple player with a music note icon
3. Music Player #03 — slide-up playlist on hover or click
4. Music Player #04 — retro player with a draggable slider as waves
5. Music Player #05 — slide-in player with pulsing headphones icon
6. Music Player #06 — simple player with spinning vinyl icon
7. Music Player #07 — minimal player with a circular progress ring
8. Music Player #08 — minimal player with album image

opening the beta version of npf v4 fix by habit even though I’ve already released the actual v4 for 2 months now

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Theme [41]: Reducks by glenthemes

🐤 ── preview / code / guide / credits 。

｢ Reducks ｣ is a play on Redux, the former default Tumblr theme by Jacob Bijani back in the day; not to be confused with a redux edit .ᐟ

🐤 ─── theme features ‣

• background: subtle plaid checkers pattern (1px–4px) with 4 customizable colors (or use your own background image)
• sidebar: 170px–350px ⦿ left or right ⦿ auto sticky behavior
• sidebar image: 10%–100% of sidebar width ⦿ custom text on hover ⦿ adjustable bottom gap
• navlinks: up to 6 with icons and labels ⦿ 1–4 columns
• description: custom desc, or use your existing blog desc
• custom links: up to 8 ⦿ optional line animation on hover
• searchbar: up to 5 custom search suggestions on dropdown
• top title: custom title text ⦿ 16px–46px ⦿ more text on hover
• posts: 300px–650px; 1 column only ⦿ legacy & NPF compatible ⦿ old or new captions ⦿ optional shortened timestamps ⦿ optional shortened note count ⦿ optional click-to-show tags ⦿ optional infinite scroll
• outlines and shadows: adjustable offset, sizes, colors, transparency
• misc: mobile theme support ⦿ wide tumblr controls bar only (with custom colors) ⦿ back-to-top button

🐤 ─── what the duck .ᐣ.ᐟ

• ducks on posts: up to 8 images with adjustable widths ⦿ optional bobbing animation ⦿ optional waves decor for the ducks to float on 🌊!
• duck as sidebar image: comes with art by daieny
• ducks on custom links: custom image for each link
• doesn’t have to be ducks! all images can be changed

🐤 ── how to use and edit ‣

Please read the guide I put together! (◍’θ’◍)

🐤 ── terms of use / ask a question / tip jar  ☕

working on making all of my music players compatible with carrd + the option to have multiple of them (carrd or tumblr). will post an update when it’s done

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update: let’s go