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New Nov 14, 2025
Vivaldi, Yea or Nay?
I just read an opinion piece on a tech company blog. I have a general rule not to do that. Corpo blogs are biased, thinly veiled ads that are too quick to jump the gun with: āAnd thatās why we built...
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New Nov 10, 2025
Reimagine the Date Picker
Wayyyyy back in 2012 I created the best date picker in the world! Pikaday on GitHub revels in 8k braggadocious stars but this year we decided to archive the project. Pikaday was old and tired....
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New Nov 1, 2025
Better Alt Text
Itās been a rare week where I was able to (mostly) ignore client comms and do whatever I wanted! That means perusing my ātodoā list, scoffing at past me for believing Iād ever do half of it, and...
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New Nov 1, 2025
Intent to Deprecate and Remove Google Chrome
Summary Chrome v1.0, which all Google users adhere to, was standardized in 2008. In the meantime, alternate browsers have evolved, adding privacy features, and growing apart from the old data sharing...
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New Oct 27, 2025
Custom Cursor Accessibility
For the unaware, macOS has settings or preferences or whatever itās renamed tomorrow. Buried deep within this UI labyrinth are pointer settings. Windows has similar hidden behind Candy Crush ads and...
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New Oct 23, 2025
Is it Time to Regulate React?
Regulate?! Sounds like rage bait. Iāll try not to disappoint. Itās right to balk at the idea of government intervention in your sacred tech stack. Legislation from tech-ignorant bloviates? The last...
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New Oct 16, 2025
Croissant Favicons and Tauri Troubles
Croissant v0.4 is out! I fixed a few minor bugs and added favicons. Feature Requests Iāve had a surprising amount of feedback. I wasnāt expecting anyone to care about an app I designed for myself....
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New Oct 12, 2025
RSS Club #004: Ghost of Autumn
The summer solstice has long past which means itās Christmas soon if the local supermarkets are to be believed. I refuse to eat a mince pie before November at the earliest. Daylight savings time will...
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New Oct 10, 2025
What is a Linux?
Do you build websites like me? Maybe youāre an Apple user, by fandom, or the fact that macOS is not Windows. Youāve probably heard about this Linux thing. But what is it? In this post I try to explain...
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New Oct 7, 2025
Email: The Final Form
Iām taking one last stab at my contact form before itās binned forever. Back in May I came up with a āprogressive dehancementā technique to validate form submissions. For non-JavaScript āusersā I took...
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New Oct 2, 2025
Not My Cup of Tea
As blog topics go, last weekās Next.js clownshow was a freebie. A bit of front-end dev and a middle finger to fascism. I had it drafted before my tea went cold. I wasnāt expecting round two to hit...
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New Sep 28, 2025
RSS Club #003: Silksong
This is an āRSS-onlyā post where I discuss topics tangentially related to my usual web design and development feed. Ignore or enjoy! Before I delve into the dark corners of Pharloom Iād like to...
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New Aug 17, 2025
RSS Club #002: Dino Edition
As the VC-funded web continues to ensloppify, itās important to remember that we donāt need to play their games. Despite billion dollar efforts the web remains decentralised. We can hyperlink right...
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New Aug 3, 2025
RSS Club #001
Welcome to RSS Club! The first rule of RSS Club is: you tell everyone about RSS Club. RSS is the best way to follow weblogs. Iāve used NetNewsWire for years and Iām now building Croissant RSS to...