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.

It’s time for one of those bug’s story. This one was introduced earlier but it’s related to “The story of the 20 million queries per hour”, not a consequence of that mistake, but it shares …

This post is about how to add role claims to an Azure B2C user flow access token. Azure B2C comes with a standard set of built-in attributes like City, Display Name and Street Address. When …

Happy New Year! I've been trying to come up with a New Year's resolution, and it got me thinking about setting goals, finding and following your purpose, and how this ties into some books I …

This essay originally was published on January 26, 2022, with the email subject line "CT No. 152: Hey, wanna cyber-secure your content business?"I didn’t use to think much about digital privacy or security. I was …

Recently, I perpetrated a serious tactical error that resulted in a number of User Experience Designers (UXers) being found unexpectedly dead. As a front-end developer, this has done little to buoy my professional reputation. I …

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) { …

Announcement: “All passengers for Chicago at 11:45, please come to gate A14 immediately for an earlier departure.” This came through at 10:35 am, after that 11:45 to Chicago was delayed by three hours. United has …

I've been signing all of my git commits and tags on GitHub for over six months. Now that some time has passed, I've enabled vigilant mode. Moving forward, if you see a commit or tag …

Warning: This article is a combination of deep multi-month research, hands-on experience over almost a decade, and ideas, all combined into a nice elaborated ranting. Proceed at your own peril! Table of contents Intro This …

My thoughts and ideas about my year - Tagged: Year in review

Inspired by Robb Knight I want to build my own /now page. As a teen I used to use PHPCurrently on my personal website to list what I was listening to, thinking, feeling, even what …

Back in 2013 when I started my career there were a few big problems with CSS: We had to rely on Sass to get variables which made everything a lot more complicated than necessary (build …

Discovered Feb 2, 2023 09:40 Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity Kellan Elliott-McCrea <– READ the WHOLE thing and of course parts 1, 3 and 4! tl;dr Every software team builds …

Vercel recently announced a new library to generate OpenGraph (OG) images. A short tutorial to see how to use it to generate OG images for your Next.js application.

It has been very frustrating watching the rise of cryptocurrency (which, forgive me cryptographers, I will be calling "crypto" from here on) because a whole bunch of smart people in tech seem to be very, …

Python’s “Disappointing” Superpowers Luke Plant provides a fascinating detailed list of Python libraries that use dynamic meta-programming tricks in interesting ways - including SQLAlchemy, Django, Werkzeug, pytest and more.

Performance lives in the unlikliest of places. Follow the metrics.

13 years ago today: created #RelMeAuth with @progrium.com, to replace OpenID 1&2 for *reasons** modest proposal: authentication using domain as identity, rel=me link to OAuth profile with rel=me link back^1* @progrium.com suggested RelMeAuth name^2 * …

At work, I like to observe who: requests v. demands is direct v. is indirect responds v. ignores The data reveals a lot about how people wield power, especially subconsciously. Requests are often, “when you …