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How to Do a TypeScript Conversion
Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?
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How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...
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Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
Shadow is a new novel browser engine written in JS!
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Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
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Web components will outlive JavaScript frameworks
If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.
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Goodbye, Node.js Buffer
It’s time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.
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Trying out TinaCMS
I'm trying out TinaCMS to make it faster and easier to post here!
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My website is one binary (2022)
my website is one binary 2022-04-06 ---------------------------- a.k.a. this one weird trick that inspires me to program creatively i have struggled for years to figure out a website framework that feels good to me. i tried all of the classics, including but limited to: - ghost - hugo - jekyll - sr.ht + tarball …
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Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
An exciting proposal is expected to land in Go 1.22 - enhancing the pattern-matching capabilities of the default HTTP serving multiplexer in the net/http package.
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Being picky about a CSS reset for fun
Just days before Andy revamped his (more) Modern CSS Reset, Dave and I were line-by-lining it on ShopTalk Show. Mouthblogging is fun and all, but so is Writemouthblogging, known colloquially as …
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Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
nikitonsky: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?
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Scrollbars are becoming a problem
Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you…
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Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
Google Search is dead to me. Here's how and why Kagi's high quality results and compelling value proposition allowed me to fully make the switch.
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Building a collaborative pixel art editor with CRDTs
CRDTs sound cool, but how are they actually used? Let's learn by building a collaborative pixel art editor.
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The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()
A function that computes to the first color if the used color scheme is light or unknown, or to the second color if the used color scheme is dark.
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle
Many projects are littered with files that just re-export other files. These so called "barrel files" are one of the key reasons why JavaScript tooling is slow in bigger projects.
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An interactive intro to CRDTs
CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.
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Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik
Docker Compose is a brilliant tool for bringing up local development environments for web projects. But working with multiple projects can be a pain due to clashes. For example, all projects want to listen to port 80 (or perhaps one of the super common higher ones like 8000 etc.). This forces developers to only bring…
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What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
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CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)
I’ll cut to the chase before I type too many more words: textarea { field-sizing: content; /* used to be `form-sizing` but changed to this */ } I came across it via an Amit Merchant blog post…
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Draggable objects
Many of my interactive pages have a draggable object . I want the reader to move the object around, and I want the diagram to respond in some way. Here I’ll document the code I use to make this work with both mouse and touch input, using browser features that are widely supported since 2020. Here’s a common case I…
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Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? (2019)
I was checking the status of a FedEx order when Brave warned me that “this site has been blocked from accessing your motion sensors”. I’m struggling to understand why a website would need that access. Do I get a different experience if I drop my device? Tip my monitor over? Spin the mouse around?
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The saga of the Closure compiler, and why TypeScript won
This post looks at the Closure Compiler, Google's tool from the mid-2000s for adding types to JavaScript. It looks at how its focus on minification led to very different design choices than TypeScript, and how this and a few other factors led to TypeScript becoming the ubiquitous solution for JavaScript + types. The…
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State of HTML 2023 now open
While the survey will be open for 3 weeks, responses entered within the first 9 days (until October 1st) will have a much higher impact on the Web, as preliminary data will be used to inform Interop 2024 proposals.
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Sidenotes in Web Design
In typography/design, ‘sidenotes’ place footnotes/endnotes in the margins for easier reading. I discuss design choices, HTML implementations and their pros/cons.