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.

What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters. …

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 …

A fingerprint, in general, refers to a unique pattern or characteristic that can be used to identify an individual or an object. This concept is widely used in various fields. For instance, to uniquely identify …

There's a heat dome forecast to settle into the upper Midwest tomorrow that will hang around for the next week. Temperatures are expected to be 85F degrees and higher with lows dipping only into the …

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? …

Today, The Content Technologist begins its sixth year of publication. Cheers! Thank you for reading!In-person workshop with MIMA August 22Organic content performance for word people: How to use content analytics for editorial decision-makingI'm super stoked …

Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med! #BeatTheHeat

A long time ago, I wrote a reasonably popular bit of open source code called REVENGE.CSS (the caps are intentional). You should know upfront, this hasn’t been maintained for years and if I ever did …

Attributes and properties are fundamentally different things. You can have an attribute and property of the same name set to different values. For example: <div foo="bar">…</div> <script> const div = document.querySelector('div[foo=bar]'); console.log(div.getAttribute('foo')); // 'bar' console.log(div.foo); …

For a demo app, I want a simple-as-possible deploy script. The simplest thing is to hard-code the version number (which gives my docker image a unique tag, which gets kubernetes to pull the new image1). …

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 Run types Landing page Business plan Continuous Integration use-case Conclusion and feedback Skybear.NET is a managed platform to automate your HTTP API synthetics testing using Hurl.dev plain text scripts. Use it for …

What is the software industry playing at? - Tagged: Rant, Agile, Software Management

A few years back I got so bored of taking attendance for my choir that I wrote a Slack integration to do it for me (I got us on Slack in 2014). That evolved from …

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! I was recently working on some form styling for a project and the design had this example of a group of checkboxes that spread out in 3 …

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. …