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Practical Front-End Architecture
We’ve been upgrading our frontend tech stack at Liferay Cloud this past year. Nifty tools we’ve adopted include:...
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I forgot about print style sheets (2016)
A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing.
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What's in email tracking links and pixels?
This investigation into email tracking attempts to deconstruct tracking links and pixels and highlight the data that is being collected. It covers Mailchimp, …
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Porn Spam on Google Maps
User Generated Content is great, innit? As a company, I want users to submit photos, so I don't have to do any content curation. Moderation? Nah mate, stick some AI on there to filter out anything offensive and we're golden. *sigh* James Whatley (inactive)@WhatleydudeSurprised Loch Ness isn't trending tbqh.❤️ 7💬 0🔁…
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Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software
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 […]
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The Pretty JSON Revolution
Wouldn't it be nice if more JSON tools supported a truly pretty JSON format? Demand options for truly pretty JSON now! Viva la revolucion!
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Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup
It is always nice to follow a detailed guide and steps when building new rails apps. Below is a bit of guidance and step-by-step…
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Why I built my own static site generator
I really wanted to get a personal blog up quickly, but the most popular static site generators either didn't fit my needs or did way too much.
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Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows
How to create an adaptive app for desktops with Flutter, with a different UI design for macOS and Windows, while using a single codebase.
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To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM
Force Microsoft Edge to open a truly blank new tab page using a Windows Registry tweak when the built-in customization options fall short.
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Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
Why everyone should use web monetization to help lower the amount of ads on the web
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What’s your API’s “Time To 200”?
M'colleague Charles has introduced me to the most spectacular phrase - "Time To 200". That's a measurement of the length of time it takes a new user to go from signing up to your API to getting their first HTTP 200 response. Think about the last time you started using a new API... Fill in a tediously long registration…
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URLs: It's Complicated
Let's play silly games with URLs...
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Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/
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Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code
Further adventures in JavaScript
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Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
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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Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
…same goes for option objects.
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Twitter.com's HTML, which is produced by React Native for Web, explained
Engineering and thoughts.
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GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces
This book gives an introduction to design and creation of graphical user interfaces using the GTK widget tool-kit and the Nim programming language. The book has its focus on the Linux operating system (OS). While the Nim programming language does support all major operating systems, GTK has it main emphasis on the…
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Frickin' shaders with frickin' laser beams
Solve all your shader problems with this one weird trick.
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Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete
We've already covered the basics of tree data structure in three posts. If you haven't gone through those yet, I would strongly going through the…
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How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer
It's now roughly seven or eight years that I'm building dynamic front ends for the web. From digital art wallets to games (1, 2) and synthesizers, I've seen it all. And since my process
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Reality Check for Cloudflare Wasm Workers and Rust
With native Rust support announced for Cloudflare Workers, one may be eager to jump in head first. I know I wanted to. However, I tested out a few use cases and found it too limiting. Either the desired APIs weren’t available, code size was too large, or the program couldn’t run within resource constraints. I remain…
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