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New Dec 18, 2024
Weblogging: Part 2
This is the second post in my three part series on blogging. They donât need to be read in order, but Iâd be happy if you read them! Part 1: Why Blog Part 2: In Numbers Part 3: For Humans (coming...
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New Dec 9, 2024
Weblogging: Part 1
Isnât âWeblogâ such a fun word? Not we-blog, web-log. Although we-blogginâ sounds fun too. Why did it ever get shortened to blog? Anyway, this is gibberish, Iâm here to discuss writing on the web, aka...
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New Dec 5, 2024
Cool People Link to Text Fragments
Hyperlinks are cool. Theyâre what make the web, The Web. You know whatâs really cool? Linking to specific sections of a web page. Weâve done that forever with the URL hash/fragment linking to an...
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New Nov 25, 2024
Links Initiative
I suggested the idea of a âlinks initiativeâ as a way to kick-start the more daunting task of building a front-end resource directory. Basically just blog your favourite dev related links and maybe...
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New Nov 21, 2024
Static Search with Pagefind
My website has been static since â checks new search index â at least July 2014! Iâve gone through so many static site generators and custom build scripts Iâve lost track. In that time Iâve amassed...
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New Nov 15, 2024
Generate Open Graph Images with Playwright
My social media posts have been boring on the visuals. Not anymore! I now auto-generate a nice typographic preview. Scroll down to see an example. This is what shared links to my website looked like...
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New Nov 11, 2024
REM? PX? Why not both?
Last week I refreshed my website to take advantage of new baseline 2024 stuff (and one old thing). Another change I made was a move from rem to px units. I pondered this change back in August. The...
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New Nov 5, 2024
Whatâs the deal with WebKit Font Smoothing?
Have you ever added this CSS? Whatâs the deal with that? Iâve always tried to avoid this CSS because a long time ago Dmitry Fadeyev asked us to Please Stop âFixingâ Font Smoothing. âThe antialiasing...
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New Nov 1, 2024
Return of the Front-end!
My 2024 end-of-year resolution â itâs like a New Yearâs resolution but better â is to return to the front-end! Iâve been neck-deep in server-side JavaScript this year. Iâve had a blast but my true...
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New Oct 22, 2024
HTTP Tunnel and Proxy in JavaScript
Saturday morning I attempted to code an SSH server in JavaScript and gave up quickly when e = g^x mod p. On Sunday morning I regrouped â I am a real coder đ¤ â and I wrote an HTTP tunnel to prove it....