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My name is Erik, and I am a Dutch software developer. I also like to write fiction. One could say I spend a lot of time trying to capture the world in plain text. Source code for the small part of it that can be expressed in logical terms, stories for everything else.
Thoughts on the Elixir language and its Phoenix framework after two years of professional work.
How I optimize SVGs for this blog and why you probably should, too.
Web components can dramatically loosen the coupling of JavaScript frameworks. To prove it, we're going to do something kinda crazy: build an app where every single component is written in a different JavaScript framework.
Through several recent discussions of GUI programming in Rust,I have been left with the impression that the term ‘GUI’ means significantlydifferent things to...
Let me open with an apology to John Gruber for my previous blog post. We’ve been working on the Standard Markdown project for about two years now. We invited John Gruber, the original creator of Markdown, to join the project via email in November 2012, but never heard back.
Even with a lot of help from a good text editor, writing HTML can be a drag. Nice documents end up as tag-swamps with little bits of content perched atop hills of tabs. Editing them becomes a test of patience and we get sick at the thought of having to look at our once-loved text. It doesn't have to be like this!…
The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat.
Hi, guys, wanted to make some kind of warning for you to make sure no one gets into situation like this.
Understand better how HTTP works in each version.
As we're building Nym , an open-source spiritual successor to Blogger & Wordpress, we'd like to revisit the ideas of our forebears whose ideas have paved the path for us to build the next generation of personal website & blogging software on.
Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience…
In a discussion about journalism on venture capitalist Fred Wilson's blog, Dave Winer writes: ... professionals make plenty of these kinds of mistakes. For example last week the esteemed NY Times said RSS was software and that it was co-written by a 14-year old on a mail list. It is neither of those things. They never…
For a terrible half an hour last night I thought Firefox was on the brink of disappearing as an independent browser and rendering engine. I was frightened silly by the rumour that Mozilla laid off significant portions of its browser team. The official press release being full of useless corporate open web blah didn’t…
There’s no more denying it: if you look at W3Techs CMS market share numbers, WordPress’ market share is shrinking, losing 0.4% market share since February. I do
Ideas and inspirations for new Clojure framework for desktop apps
Battlefield 3’s Battlelog system is an interesting web application that many of us missed. Here is why it’s amazing and worth a look at.
Google Reader’s upcoming shutdown and Mailbox’s rapid acquisition have reignited the discussion of free vs. paid services and whether people should pay for products they love to keep them running sustainably.
On Tuesday, December 7th 2021 I discovered a critical vulnerability in Cloudflare’s Email Routing service. This vulnerabilty enabled anyone to modify the routing configuration of any domain using the service. A bad actor could have overwritten the destination address to their own email address in order to read any…
font-size is the worst. It’s a CSS property probably everyone who writes CSS has used at some point. It’s pretty ubiquitous. And it’s super …
Joel Gustafson
I go back and forth on running my own website. I love [working](Re Introducing First Crack.txt) [on](First Crack Release Notes 0619.txt) [First Crack](/projects.html#firstCrack), but that work can become trying. I have little time for [projects](/projects.html), and the more I spend coding, the less I [read](My…
I was running some benchmarks the other day. I usually have a lot of things running (Teams, Chrome, IDE, etc…) but I have to close everything to run some tight benchmarks. When I am done, one of th…
More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness , web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads .
The landscape of OpenStreetMap-based mobile apps
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…
