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New Jun 7, 2025
Weighing Souls with Anubis at Home
Look what I made! I’ve been Javascripting again. My new project Anoobis is an experimental implementation of Anubis I made with JavaScript, Zig, and Wasm. But what is Anubis? “Weigh the soul of...
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New Jun 1, 2025
Baseless
Baseline is a popular Google product that claims to: “brings clarity to information about browser support for web platform features”A noble and valiant cause. Unfortunately, poor Google are strapped...
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New May 30, 2025
Ensloppification
I’ve been reading “Advising Reasonable AI Criticism” by Declan Chidlow. From my perspective as a self-professed AI Luddite the far too reasonable points made by Chidlow don’t fit my anti-AI narrative....
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New May 23, 2025
::pseudo-elements?
I’ve given it some thought and I’m going to say it. I don’t like pseudo-elements. At least not where they’re going. Talk of Google’s carousel kerfuffle was rightly focused on accessibility (or lack...
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New May 18, 2025
Search with Zig, Wasm, and a Worker ⚡
Static search was a nice upgrade to my blog. Pagefind is super easy to use. Point it at and it’ll crawl your website making it searchable with a bit of front-end magic. A minor issue I had with Pagef...
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New May 15, 2025
Slopaganda
The internet is ruined. Ruined I tell you! It was ruined when you chose proprietary messengers over open protocols. It was ruined when you let Google search and Chrome become gatekeeper to the web...
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New May 11, 2025
The Static Site Churns!
I often refer to my scuffed static site generator but what is it? It’s a hodgepodge of scripts honed over years, or pilfered from GitHub last week, that glue together my website. As of this weekend it...
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New May 7, 2025
Glossary Web Component
I’ve added a secret glossary to my blog! You might find it by hovering over special links. Don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret. At least until I can find a way to style the links without them being a...
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New May 2, 2025
Progressive Dehancement
I’ve ummed and ahhed over removing my contact form entirely. Quality enquiries are rare but still worth the risk of spam. I’d like to hold out a little longer. At least until “AI” apologists ruin the...
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New Apr 28, 2025
Deno’s Decline (6 Regions and Falling)
The future of Deno Land Inc. is not looking bright. Their commercial product Deno Deploy claims to be “edge” hosting with “massive global scale”. “JavaScript applications on Deno Deploy run...