Blogs about Web development

In this blog post, we examine the ECMAScript proposal “Set methods for JavaScript” by Michał Wadas, Sathya Gunasekara and Kevin Gibbons. It introduces new methods for Sets.

On Friday, May 19th, we received a customer report about emails from other HEY users landing in spam. 37signals uses a two-tier on-call system for support tickets that require technical assistance, and Joan Stewart – …

Congratulations on your new job! However, you may soon realize that there is a lack of organization within the company, which is affecting your performance. Besides addressing the management skills of your team, supervisor, or …

One of the most common things that you would often do in a Linux/Unix-based system is to navigate to a directory. And if you’re a developer, you would find yourself doing this multiple times a …

My wife is a huge fan of the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. She listens every week and is constantly learning about new books, movies, documentaries and other types of media from the conversations …

I started using ChatGPT when it came out a few months ago. It was mind blowing to chat with a computer and have it feel almost like a real person. Some people are talking about …

This essay originally was published on June 1, 2023, with the email subject line "CT No.169: A deliberate weirdening of content-focused data gathering."by Vicky GuContent strategy is a dance. It takes artful maneuvering to charm …

Some collected thoughts and ideas around applying a functional approach to writing and maintaining documentation, especially for design systems. In programming, you have these things called functions. Functions are chunks of code, typically identified by …

Let's say you wanted to display a bunch of chapters on the page, and for whatever reason, the API only gives you a chapter at a time. You could do this: async function showChapters(chapterURLs) { …

Honeycomb has doubled in size since I joined less than 2 years ago. More people means we can do more things at the same time. Both “more people” and “more things at the same time” …

If you just want the answer to the question posed in the title, click the TLDR below and then move on with your day. Otherwise, buckle in, we’re going debugging; this post is mostly about …

I'm pleased to announce that dotbot-firefox 1.1.0 is now available! This release adds support for Python 3.12, and also supports profiles created by Firefox Flatpak for Linux.

For the past few months I have been working on some side-projects that took way longer than I expected, or initially planned. This was partly due to my mistake of keep expanding their scope, but …

The case for almost always favouring the type keyword over the interface keyword - Tagged: TypeScript, Type Theory

I had the absolute privilege of opening Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf recently. Truth be told, I had no idea what to expect, other than a great conference (from what everyone had told me), but it was …

Regular readers of my notes might have noticed that I have a little trouble being okay with wasting time. Ever since having kids, my time anxiety has driven me to look at every week as …

Before he retired, my dad was an electrical and diagnostic engineer. In short, he dedicated most of his adult life to designing and building lasers and laser equipment – everything from laser-tag through to guidance …

I’m not ready to write just yet; the sun is in the wrong place, the coffee is too hot, my sweater is too scratchy. I’ll take any excuse I can get to avoid sitting down …

via Ulrike Hahn’s toot @baldur academics, ie non AI vendors, are saying the same things though when it comes to LLMs. We simultaneously know exactly what they do and don’t really… that’s not just a …

What if we took advantage of React Server Components not only to improve how we use React, but also how we help people learn it from the beginning?