Deep Dive: The Sanitizer API
Web applications frequently need to render HTML strings dynamically. Whether you build a client-side templating system, display user-generated content, or render rich text, safely converting raw...
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Implementing feature flags
Feature flags, also known as feature toggles, are a software engineering technique that lets you turn specific functionality on or off during runtime without deploying new code. They decouple feature...
Web and Node.js Streams
Handling massive datasets or high-frequency real-time data efficiently requires a fundamental shift in how applications process information. Loading an entire multi-gigabyte video or parsing thousands...
Reintroducing Web Components
Web Components comprise a suite of technologies for creating reusable custom elements. By encapsulating functionality from the rest of the application code, Web Components provide a standards-based...
Running Python Data Science Libraries in the Browser with Pyodide
Python has always been the lingua franca of data science. Its rich ecosystem of libraries: NumPy for numerical computing, Pandas for data manipulation, Matplotlib for visualization, and Scikit-learn...
Working with monospace fonts: fixing an annoying bug
A persistent CSS quirk often baffles developers: when styling inline <code> elements inside a heading, the monospace text appears significantly smaller than the surrounding text. Inspecting...
Migrating Your Homebrew Tap to GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages
I've maintained a public Hombrew tap for several years, initially to distribute custom builds of packages that were not available in the main Hombrew repositories. Over time the tap evolved to include...
Vendoring and Code Splitting in the HTTP/2 Era
Code splitting is the practice of breaking JavaScript code into small chunks that the browser can load on demand. This technique optimizes load times and improves user experience by only loading the...
Archival Web: Exploring the Past, And Improving the Future
The web has evolved significantly since its creation, and with it, the technologies that power it. Chief among them is CSS, which has undergone significant changes since it was first introduced in...
Exploring Dublin Core: Metadata, Linked Data, and the Web
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) provides a robust vocabulary for describing digital resources. While understanding the theory behind DCMI is helpful, applying it correctly ensures your...