David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers2 min read
How not to migrate from Cloudflare DNS
So you’ve been shamefully using US Big Tech giant Clownflare for DNS? It’s time to find an inopportune time to migrate away to a “European alternative” . You absolute must not follow these steps on a busy weekend when you must leave for hours on short notice. […]
David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers3 min read
Cloudflare killed Deno and look I’m on TV!
““Didn’t you already say goodbye to Deno? Get new material!””I know, I know, but not even a week after declaring my friendship over with Deno they actually killed Deno! The runtime is going away, and sorry call me pessimistic, but I highly doubt a community fork of any value will survive for long. […]
David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers4 min read
D-Bus Hell
The time has come to address the elephant in the comments. Whenever my blog hits a place with a comments section the most predictable comment I see — besides some variation of “this idiot is utterly delusional!”† — is this one: “lol I read the domain as “D-Bus Hell” Random commenter”I’d prefer if […]
David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers4 min read
A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
For better or worse the web industry is going through a bit of a phase. The reasons are largely irrational. People still need the web, nothing has changed there. Regardless, the financials of this business are a struggle. Longterm career prospects are looking dicey. […]
David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers4 min read
Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
It’s finally time I go crawling back to Node! I’ve been using Node heavily this month on a SvelteKit client project. When did Node get so good‽ Deno has been my go-to runtime for so long I forgot how to Node. Now I’m back, I find all the ECMAScript† sugar is supported and the old annoying APIs have […]
David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers4 min read
Shin honkaku
Shin honkaku is a sub-genre of Japanese detection fiction — and my new obsession! I’ve even designed my own book cover, scroll down to see… An intro to the genre “Shin honkaku” translates to “new orthodox” and pays homage to classic western authors of the early 20th century such as Poe, Queen, Van […]
David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers2 min read
Leaving them behind
Quick note before we begin: this is the first of two posts I’m publishing today. You’re welcome to skip ahead to: Shin honkaku — it’s far more fun! I’ve waited long enough! I’ve entertained one “wait six months” too many! The TL;DR for my updated AI policy has changed: The absolute vileness of the […]
David BushellMore Front-end Bloggers2 min read
Removing the fancy button
My blog is standard.site ready but I’m pausing full integration for now. I desperately wanted the fancy button but after its novelty wore off I’ve accepted the truth. The Bluesky button is bad UX. This has been widely complained about from day one. The problem is obvious for Bluesky users. […]