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A while ago, I was curious how the speed of document.getElementById compared to document.querySelector in Javascript for selecting a single element by ID. querySelector has to do a lot more work, so one would expect that it would be slower, but I didn't know if the difference was enough to care about.
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
I wrote two posts on the topic of WebKit font smoothing before, but unfortunately the situation has grown worse since then. In allowing the designer to pick their own font smoothing mode with the -webkit-font-smoothing CSS property, WebKit developers have opened up an opportunity for typographic abuse, namely, the…
Ever wondered what browsers do to get JavaScript to execute quickly? Let’s take a look.
Building a modern front end in Django without reaching for a full-blown JavaScript framework. Choosing the right tools for the job, and bringing them into your project.
Struggling with IndexedDB performance? Discover hidden bottlenecks, advanced tuning techniques, and next-gen storage like the File System Access API.
In this essay, Carson Gross explores HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), explaining how it enables REST APIs through hypermedia responses and contrasting it with modern JSON-based APIs. Using clear HTML examples, Carson demonstrates how HATEOAS allows clients to discover available actions…
A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software. have developed a tool that will increase protections for users’ private data while they browse the web.
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Nov. 22, 2021
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Overview of different techniques to implement comments using a static site generator.
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Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
Brave Wallet is a secure crypto wallet, built right into the Brave privacy browser. No extension required.
Force Microsoft Edge to open a truly blank new tab page using a Windows Registry tweak when the built-in customization options fall short.
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…
Despite claims that dithered images will reduce your image's file size, there are much better ways to compress your website's images.
I sincerely apologize to the Safari team for misrepresenting their compatibility score in our Chrome Dev Summit presentation. Due to a combination of personal circumstances, a reliance on outdated Safari Tech Preview data from wpt.fyi, and the rush leading up to the event, we displayed an incorrect improvement score…
An article on implementing OAuth user registration for a newsletter on a statically generated site using Cloudflare workers.
In a world with tools like NPM that are supposed to make websites fast why have they gotten so slow?
In part 1 I dove into Spotify Codes and explained the general technical concepts of how they work. If you haven’t read that post you should check it out. I shared it on reddit where it generated a lot of interesting discussion. Ludvig Strigeus, a key early developer at Spotify and the person who invented Spotify…
Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
Modern web applications typically rely on chains of multiple servers, which forward HTTP requests to one another. The attack surface created by this forwarding is increasingly receiving more attention, including the recent popularisation of cache poisoning...
