Blogs about Web development

In this blog post, we take a look at the ECMAScript 2023 feature “Symbols as WeakMap keys” – which was proposed by Robin Ricard, Rick Button, Daniel Ehrenberg, Leo Balter, Caridy Patiño, Rick Waldron, and …

You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web. Today I’m pleased to announce that we are …

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 …

Reusing database queries is a common practice to maintain clean, DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) code and ensure consistency across your application. With Laravel, you have a host of options to reuse queries. For instance, you …

Setting up a GitHub Action to deploy a .Net Core web app to Azure App Service from your GitHub repository involves a couple steps. This blog post shows a detailed guide to help you set …

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 …

In this issue:A brief reflection on style and its role in contentLinks of the week: Content management and shoddy tech journalismDid you read? You should do that weird content project you've been thinking about Great …

Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2024 small talk by Patrick M.

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); …

Today, I’m working on our new deck. It’s a little uncomfortable, because there’s no furniture. I’m sitting on a blanket. The furniture is in the yard, being spray-painted. Before my husband left for the day, …

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 Definitions Applicability and importance Conclusion DefinitionsWhat is holistic ownership of a project? Holistic ownership. Person ABC, in the projects we have worked together, has excelled at holistic owning the problem (beyond specific …

Bash scripts (or any type of script) can become unwieldy, fragile, and difficult to maintain - Tagged: Linux, Bash, Automation, Infrastructure as Code

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! Social media preview images (or open graph images, or og images) are very useful if you want to attract people to your website. Displaying that neat blog …

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. …