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Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive
tl;dr; show me the demo and source code!
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If not React, then what?
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
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Reactive HTML Notebooks
Can we build a reactive notebook in a single HTML file? Yes (by standing on the shoulders of Observable)
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Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly
Using the Overpass API to read OSM data, parsing the data with Rust, and then drawing the map onto HTML5 canvas.
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Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
Mike Bostock, Announcing: Observable Framework: Today we’re launching Observable 2.0 with a bold new vision: an open-source static site generator for building fast, beautiful data apps, dashboards, and reports. Our …
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Please make your table headings sticky
I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll…
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Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications
Anthropic have enabled CORS support for their JSON APIs, which means it’s now possible to call the Claude LLMs directly from a user’s browser. This massively significant new feature is …
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Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
Intended audience: You are likely to enjoy this post the most if you are interested in Linux and/or Linux manual pages, or if you enjoy reading about esoteric programming projects.
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Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing
It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: The negotiated sale price was fair. They are a big com…
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Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
Most developers know about WebSockets, but Server-Sent Events (SSE) offer a simpler, often overlooked alternative that deserves more attention
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The "email is authentication" pattern
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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So long WordPress
This has been a hard post for me to write after participating in WordPress since before I even started a career in tech and, until 3 months ago, for my entire tech career. That said, it has been in the making for quite a while now and it is time that I make it official. I’ve officially left the WordPress project after…
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10 > 64, in QR Codes
QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.
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Home Screen Advantage
Cupertino's attempt to scuttle Progressive Web Apps under cover of chaos is exactly what it appears to be: a shocking attempt to keep the web from ever emerging as a true threat to the App Store and blame regulators for Apple's own malicious choices. By hook or by crook, Apple's going to maintain its home screen…
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I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
Why did an IPFS+ENS websites pioneer like me moved his blog from IPFS to a regular server?
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CSS Grid Areas
A fresh look at the CSS grid template areas and how to take advantage of its full potential today.
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I don't want to fill out your contact form
This is my personal blog, where I write solely in my personal capacity. It does not represent the positions of any organisations I'm associated with.
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A modest critique of Htmx
At work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in a non-trivial user interface, across a team, we’ve found that the following cases are actually not simple and are quite complicated.
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Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.
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If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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Kate editor on all platforms
Unix like systems with X11 or Wayland All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever. Linux with X11 and now Wayland is for a long time the primary system on that Kate work happens. Over the years it was, like most of the KDE applications, ported to various BSD variants. Be it some…
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Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
Under regulatory pressure, mobile OSes are opening up and adding features that will allow PWAs to disrupt app stores ... Yet with shockingly few exceptions, coverage accepts that the solution to crummy, extractive native app stores will be other native app stores. ... The press fails to mention the web as a sustitute…
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Why isn't the <html> element 100% supported on caniuse.com?
I saw a Mastodon post that made me laugh this morning. It seemed sort of crazy that the html element wouldn’t have 100% support on CanIUse.com. Heck, I’ve been using it since 1994 and it worked just fine back then! This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole.
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Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015)
Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37. - Number 1.0 (Futurama, S2E15 )
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A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor
Recently, my team and I fixed an absolutely bizarre bug that only one person in the team could reproduce. And to make it even weirder, she was only able to reproduce the issue when using her work laptop at home; it worked fine with the same laptop in the office.
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Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
Conventionally, email addresses published on webpages may be protected from email-harvesting spambots via various HTML, CSS & JS-based techniques. This alternative technique is SVG-based.
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Web components are okay
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a…
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Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
Speedrunning A11y in SwiftUI