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HTML Form Validation is underused
HTML Forms have powerful validation mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. In fact, not many people even know much about them. Is this because of some flaw in their design? Let’s explore.
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So long WordPress
This has been a hard post for me to write after participating in WordPress since before I even started a career in tech and, until 3 months ago, for my entire tech career. That said, it has been in the making for quite a while now and it is time that I make it official. I’ve officially left the WordPress project after…
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Platform Strategy and Its Discontents
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name.
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Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches. Explore this powerful, user-friendly feature for precise content sharing and improved web experiences.
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The best darn grid shader yet (2023)
For as long as I’ve been writing shaders, there’s been one specific shader I’ve always tried to write…
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Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format
This post briefly summarizes part of a talk I gave in 2018. All information in this post has been accessible on YouTube since then. There is no new information or news in this post. On Mastodon recently, jsveningsson@mastodon.social asked me: Having an annoying argument on Threads about Apple generated passwords…
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Using static websites for tiny archives
I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
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Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends
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setBigTimeout
setTimeout breaks after 25 days. setBigTimeout doesn't.
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Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
This blog post details how I found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which are vulnerabilities within the Chromium web browser which allowed for a sandbox escape from a browser extension.
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ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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ACF has been hijacked
It’s super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I shouldn’t be thinking about weird internet drama, but here we are.
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WordPress Alternatives
Alternative WordPress options that you can drop onto a server and get running with
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WASM Is the New CGI
I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around. > Wasm is the new CGI And to be cle...
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Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
A very specific question, answered very longwindedly.
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A modest critique of Htmx
At work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in a non-trivial user interface, across a team, we’ve found that the following cases are actually not simple and are quite complicated.
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Building a single-page app with Htmx
People talk about htmx as though it's saving the web from single-page apps. Well, I guess I missed the memo, because I used htmx to build a single-page app.
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How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP 1.1 server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it's a text file that has some specific rules t…
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Rust needs a web framework
I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also like to make things in Rust, mostly for the web, and this is where we run into a problem.
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AI is an impediment to learning web development
Some thoughts on AI and LLMs, based on being Head of Engineering for JumboCode , a club of 180 students at Tufts University that builds software for non-profits.
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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally agree with this, as Juno is just a web…
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A Local-First Case Study
How I built a local-first app for planning trips, and what I learned about the current state of the local-first ecosystem along the way.
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Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?
You can find plenty of tutorials on the Internet about the art of web scraping (for example, here and here ) and the first things you will learn about are Python and Beautiful Soup. There is no tutorial on web scraping with Javascript in a web browser though you will find browser extensions that claim to do it all…
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Phrase matching in Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search now properly supports phrase matching. This not only permits a more robust implementation of quoted search queries, but also helps promote results where the search terms occur in the document exactly in the same order as they do in the query. This is a write-up about implementing this change. This is…
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Web components are okay
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a…
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If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign
Jacob Wenger's online garden