No one:
Me: Starts humming Dire, Dire Docks
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While working on a side project, I scope-creeped myself into building a JavaScript package for better localStorage.
https://blakewatson.com/journal/indexeddb-made-easy-like-localstorage/
Great blog post from my brother, @mhilltopple, about working from home.
https://www.mattwatson.org/blog/20250131-the-new-normal-of-working-from-home/
Despite everything going on…
https://beep.town/@initech/113920496496153735
I almost just nerd sniped myself. Barely avoided it.
I have the Carmen Sandiego theme song stuck in my head.
I'm trying to reconcile these two articles. One is calling the virtual DOM pure overhead. The other shows that some of the fastest frameworks use the virtual DOM.
- https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
- https://javascript.plainenglish.io/javascript-frameworks-performance-comparison-2020-cd881ac21fce
If you're looking to learn some CSS, my HTML web book has a gentle introduction to it.
My favorite YouTube feature has to be when you search for something and it litters your search results with a bunch of stuff you didn't search for.
JS peeps: I need your help!
I’m looking for a tiny library/framework that will render DOM in a performant way (patching rather than blowing away existing DOM) **and** doesn’t use unsafe eval (no eval function and no `new Function`).
I feel like there should be plenty of choices but I’m having trouble finding much.
You know you have problems when you get back-to-back emails from MyChart and they're unrelated from different providers.
My dictation software typed “speed weed” instead of “speed read” and I'm not even mad.
My new tab page browser extension is getting the following new features (coming soon!):
- Any number of columns from 1 to 7
- 2 new themes
- Sorting bookmarks alphabetically
- Open a whole group of bookmarks with one click
Yes! In my ideal world everyone would have a personal website and infinite time and resources for tinkering with it.
@nora Your generators are hilarious. Bad Kickstarters was cracking me up.
Apple Human Interface Guidelines, 1987, pg. 16
“Computers hold tremendous promise for people with many kinds of disabilities. In terms of increasing productivity and mobility, computers can have a far greater impact on disabled people than on other users. … Many of the modifications that make programs easier for disabled people to use are simple and inexpensive to make, and they often have a welcome and unexpected side effect—the programs are easier for everyone to use.”
Cope with the horrors of life by buying fonts.
https://mastodon.social/@simplebits/113868176975589057
I’m really loving Commit Mono for coding. It’s a neutral typeface with a feature called “smart kerning” that makes characters appear more evenly spaced while preserving monospacing.
Does anyone know what the current best practice is for using ES modules in the browser? How many is too many in terms of HTTP requests?