Blogs about Web development

On 26 June 2024, the 127th Ecma General Assembly approved the ECMAScript 2024 language specification, which means that it’s officially a standard now. This blog post explains what’s new.

We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged …

Imagine you’re on the hunt for a new sweater and decide to visit a local clothing store. Upon arrival, you engage with Tom, an enthusiastic new employee who began working there last week. You inquire …

Sometimes, it would be interesting to see what you can build using your favorite framework. This is especially useful when you’re in the phase of selecting a framework for your next project. Open-source projects can …

I've completed so many Umbraco migrations over the past year that they've become incredibly easy to execute. Now that I've been doing them for a while, I've created a template that I follow to make …

Are you paying for servers sitting idle in the middle of the night? When we talk about scaling a web server, we often focus on scaling up. Can your server handle a spike in traffic? …

A digression and some advice: Instead of writing a post about burnout or any complaint you might have about your job or AI or people's terrible taste, go outside. Take a walk.Take a drive to …

Learn how I started to go off-grid @Home, and warming up to getting real (spendy). #solar #microgen

I’m pacing my office when the door swings open with impertinence. “You’re smoking now?” I aim the glowing tip at my nose to inspect it. “So that’s what this is?” A suited arm thrusts a …

I've been helping some teams at Shopify improve page load performance, and the issue of 'videos with an alpha channel' kept coming up, where videos of UI mocks needed to be composited on top of …

a keynote from CppNorth This one is about everything else that a team needs to accomplish, besides writing the code, in order to provide useful capabilities to people.

Hey, did you know I make really good BBQ chicken wings? I use a recipe I invented myself, and every time I make it I’m terrified I’ll forget how to do it; I’ve never written …

I recently encountered an open source project that hadn't received updates for a while. The issue tracker had ~200 open issues, ~70 open pull requests, and CI was partially failing. It's not uncommon for projects …

Table of contents Problem definition Conclusion Feature flags are one of my favourite practices in software engineering. I wrote a detailed article about their use-cases and how I consider them a superpower! In this article, …

This stuff is proving to be tricky! - Tagged: IndieWeb, WebMentions

Nic Chan - Nic has just finished rebuilding her website and it’s INCREDIBLE! Seriously just look at it CSS { In Real Life } | Limitation Breeds Creativity: A Study in Composition with Custom Properties …

I recently migrated this blog from Gatsby to Astro. Finally, I have to say! I have been meaning to move away from Gatsby for a while, but I never really prioritised this activity until now …

I don't love how this painting turned out, but I enjoyed every moment of creating it. (I did the best I could on the photography with a tripod, my phone, and my office lights.) I …

If anything looks wrong, read on the site! Hi there! As September ends, it's time to wake up for a new edition of Cool Links! This month's links are mostly web development related, with a …

Grouping items in an array is one of those things you've probably done a load of times. Each time you would have written a grouping function by hand or perhaps reached for lodash's groupBy function. …