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Tiny PWAs and why I keep building them
The search for useful tiny apps is hard, but progressive web apps and the growing api surface on the web platform are starting to fill the gap.
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SwiftWebUI
Beginning of the month Apple announced SwiftUI at the WWDC 2019. A single “cross platform”, “declarative” framework used to build tvOS, macOS, watchOS and iOS UIs. SwiftWebUI is bringing that to the Web ✔️
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Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
ramblings by Adam Perry
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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
How Facebook hides the word 'Sponsored' from ad blockers using per-character spans and DOM obfuscation, pulled apart piece by piece.
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3D Wireframes Using SVG
How to use Python to generate 3D SVG.
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Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
The answer to this question is still "Yes!" Here I demonstrate yet another way for the server to access your data, the issues being structural.
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HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
Everyone is angry about CSS again. I’m not even going to try to summarize the arguments. However it always seems to boil down to the fact that CSS is simultaneously too easy to bother with, yet so hard it needs to be wrapped up in a ball of JavaScript in case it scares the horses. ... HTML, CSS and our vanishing…
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UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time
To preface the article, I primarily work on, and prefer, back-end code. I've been involved in both web and software development for over 4 y...
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Migrating from Google Analytics
In this post we'll explore what happened when I migrated away from Google Analytics (GA) to a self-hosted solution. The tool that I migrated to is an open-source platform called Countly . It offers a subset of features from what GA offers.
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React as a UI Runtime
An in-depth description of the React programming model.
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Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've seen
I first heard about Svelte a year ago, when Rich Harris presented it at JSConf EU 2018. The demo gods were a bit harsh on him, but it didn't matter to me, because I was so impressed by his philosophy and ideas that I was already sold. I knew he'd work out the kinks, go through a few major versions, and Svelte would be…
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When to Use TypeScript – A Detailed Guide Through Common Scenarios
Strap yourself in. In this guide, we compare when it's absolutely vital to be using TypeScript, the strictly-typed programming language, and when it makes sense to stick to vanilla JavaScript.
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BigInt Shipping in Firefox
wingolog: article: bigint shipping in firefox!
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So you want your app/website to work in China
Updated 2021-06-10
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JMAP: Like IMAP but Not Really
With the new year upon us, I decided it was time to do something ambitious for my Open Source project. This is where I normally quip about never mentioning my project before, even though I literall…
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WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors
pipdig, WordPress theme and plugin provider, caught distributing malicious code to customers and DDoSing competitors…
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Web Developer's Guide to DNS
Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web.
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.
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The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
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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CSRF is really dead
A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had to enable it on
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Micro Frontends
How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps.
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Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
The Avast extensions which were spying on their users are no longer available from Mozilla and Opera add-on stores. Google still has to take action.
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Flexible data tables with CSS Grid
Now that we've launched, I can finally talk about the secret project I've been working on for the last two years. One interesting piece of the Teamwork CRM puzzle was the "list view". It's a powerful page component which exists seven times in the app — a table on steroids essentially. I could talk about it…