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Firefox 89 Tab Appearance
Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others. It can be disabled by setting...
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REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library
This is the first post in a series about writing REST servers in Go. My plan with this series is to implement a simple REST server using several different approaches, which should make it easy to compare and contrast these approaches and their relative merits.
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Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it
Typing shortcuts on international keyboard layouts is broken. Here is how developers can fix it.
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My Custom CSS Reset
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!
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Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure
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?
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You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
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Bad TypeScript Habits
TypeScript and JavaScript have steadily evolved over the last years, and some of the habits we built over the last decades have become obsolete. Some might never have been meaningful. Here's a list of 10 habits that we all should break.
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Why Prefetch Is Broken
When coding a webpage, sometimes you know something is very likely to be needed, even if it's not needed yet. You can give the browser a hint: <link rel=prefetch href=url> The browser will take a note, and then when it doesn't have anything more important to do it might request url. Later on, if it does turn out…
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Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go
Recently I've become more and more interested in how WebRTC works, so a few weeks ago I decided to add a page to my website where I could set up peer-to-peer video chats. There are plenty of libraries and services out there to make this extremely easy, but knowing that WebRTC is now well supported natively across…
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Why Web3?
Over the last month, there has been a ton of debate and conversation about web2 vs web3 with many leading voices raising doubts about web3. Debate and doubt are healthy. And web3 enthusiasts, particularly on Twitter, remind me of missionaries trying to recruit the unwashed to their belief system. Frankly, it is all…
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Back to the Future with RSS
How to save the open web, & get (re)started with RSS
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A simple way to build collaborative web apps
Junyu Zhan's homepage
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RSS as a Facebook alternative
Making the case for RSS feeds and feed readers as the best alternative to big tech news consumption services like Facebook newsfeeds.
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How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out
25 recent entries The horn of the Robert Smalls A difficulty in race-switching the Dukes of Hazzard On futile explanations Richard Blair Race-switching The Dukes of Hazzard Greek plural Erbaut Improved English-language month names I fix a thirty-year-old mistake Minced oaths? On the monobosom Partly about pie More…
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js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read. Pages that are empty without JS: dead to history (archive-org), unreliable for search results (despite any search engine claims of JS support, check it yourself), and thus ignorable. No need to waste time reading or responding. Also known as, if it’s not curlable, it’s not on…
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Don't attach tooltips to document.body
TL;DR Instead of attaching tooltips directly to document.body, attach them to a predefined div in document.body. BAD html my tooltip ...
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Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
This is a guide for starting a TypeScript project in 2021 with modern tooling. TypeScript 4 Optionally esbuild to bundle for browsers (and Node.js) Linting with typescript-eslint (tslint is deprecated) Testing with Jest (and ts-jest) Publishing a package to npm Continuous integration (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI)…
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A Guide to Twitter
We hope that this guide to Twitter will be useful to you, wherever you are in your Twitter journey.
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Next Gen Static Blogging
Take a look at the source code of this page - I rely mostly on CSS for the rendering of this article.
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My stack is HTML+CSS
My stack will outlive yours
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Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea
Disclaimer: Thoughts expressed here are my own, and not of my employers.
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SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
SVG, short for <em>“scalable vector graphics”</em> is a format for, well, scalable vector graphics. In this article I summarize my opinion of the format, what its problems are and suggest what could be done to improve things.
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Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Debugging memory leaks in web apps is hard. The tooling exists, but it’s complicated, cumbersome, and often doesn’t answer the simple question: Why is my app…
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Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly
For a recent project I've been working on, I wanted to include a graph showing the relationships between different artists on Spotify. Spotify provides the data directly from their API, and I had everything set up to pull it for a user's top artists and into the browser.
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