Working with Javascript events
Events are things that happen in the system you are programming — the system "fires" a signal of some kind when an event occurs, and provides a way to use the event in either the element...
Web Components, Frameworks or Both?
I came across Web Components Are Not the Future by Ryan Carniato, the creator of Solid.js. I think that the article is biased and it makes assumptions based on his experience as the creator of a...
Web Components Review
From their humble beginnings, the specifications that make up web components have become more complex and flexible at the same time. This post will cover the APIs and specifications that make web...
What's Going On With WordPress
Full Disclosure I worked with WordPress for 18 years until 2023 when the direction it was moving to didn't align with what I wanted to do. I've also strongly disagreed with Matt Mullenweg's policies...
Building a Recipe Database
In a previous post we looked at how to create a database in a Homebrew version of Postgresql. This post will look at the database structure of a hypothetical license database web application as an...
Building An Express App - Creating A Database In Express
One of the aspects I seldom consider when building demos and applications is how to build the database that will power the CRUD application. For this post we'll use Postgresql 17 installed via...
Baseline Web Components
Baseline is an interesting initiative The Web Platform Developer Experience group created the baseline-status web component to display data regarding the baseline status of a given feature. This could...
Research for the blog - Color.js Web Components
Warning: These components are under development and they may change without notice. If the current version of the components meets your needs you may want to pin to the specific version you're...
Partial List of Events
This post is a continuation of the last post about Javascript events. It will give a partial list of events available to Javascript browsers, whether they bubble up to parent chain and a brief...
Default Parameters and Sibling Parameters
We can use special types of parameters to protect ourselves when writing code. This post will cover two defensive coding strategies: default parameters and what I call sibling parameters. Using...