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The internet is not as good as it used to be. Information is siloed into walled gardens like Facebook, Nextdoor, and so on. Google results are saturated with SEO spam. Wordpress is a mess that keeps on chugging through inertia; Medium, while clean, is behind a paywall; Reddit and Twitter are increasingly hiding their…
A terrible user-hostile browser feature is being misused, surprising no one.
Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome!
By default, composing a new email in Gmail results in an HTML email under the hood — even if you don’t use any formatting. Luckily, it’s possible to opt-out of that and use plain text email instead. In the ‘new email’ window, click the downwards arrow and check ‘Plain text mode’.
Before I start—to set some context—by frontend framework what I mean is, a framework that allows us to avoid having to write regular old HTML and JavaScript such as this:
From Markdown to PDF via HTML and CSS.
Caching in a Rails app is a little bit like that one friend you sometimes have around for dinner, but should really have around more often.
A list of important principles of user interface design.
Debunking an alarmingly common HTML misconception.
As it continues to evolve, WebAssembly has the potential to be the platform executing an enormous amount of IoT computation.
...but decentralization is right behind it.
Hello, brave netizen! If you’ve found your way onto this guide then you have embarked on the first exciting step into the Web Revival. This guide will give you the low down on all things web! By the end of it you’ll know what the Web Revival is, what it stands for, and how you can take part in it; grab your browser…
For a while now I’ve been telling people that I want Polypane to be prescriptive, not descriptive. In this article I want to expand on that and explain what I mean when I say “prescriptive”. I usually explain it like this: there is no shortage of tooling that will tell you everything you do wrong […]
Master JavaScript 'this' keyword: Learn six contexts where 'this' changes value. Essential for OOP and frameworks.
Standards are great, until they aren't
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…
An idea for PDFs that render normally for humans while exposing clean markdown structure to extractors and LLMs in the same file.
I've been hearing this question a lot lately, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't know. Here are some questions this question brings to mind.
I’ve needed this before - a couple of times. Third time I figured I needed something small, nimble - yet complete. And - at the same time - wondering about how to do it in a very simple manner. I think it worked out great, so let’s dig in. Most UIs will have some form of undo functionality. Now, there are generally…
A post-mortem on running and decommissioning Telize, a free public REST API
