Frameworks, AI, and the modern web developer
I first started playing with web content in 1994 while in college. Over the years I've see most major changes in web development. From the early days of HTML-only sites, to CGI for server-side...
Text on a path
One of my favorite things to see on the web are curved paths with text on them... how to create irregular text paths and laying out text on them. This post will discuss how to create text on a path...
Deep Dive on Promises
Promises have been around since 2015 and are a powerful way to handle asynchronous code in Javascript. They allow you to write cleaner, more readable code by avoiding callback hell and making it...
Functional Programming Concepts
Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data. This post will explore basic concepts...
New uses of the attr function in CSS
The attr function allows you to use the value of an HTML attribute in your css. It has been around for a while, but it was limited to using the value of an attribute as a string. The following ...
HTML range inputs
A lot of times we think of HTML as a static, inflexible, language. But there are many things you can do with HTML that are not obvious unless you look for them. This post will look at two specific...
WebGPU
This post will cover my research on the WebGPU API. WebGPU is a lower level API that will work with underlying native GPU APIs like Vulkan (Khronos Group), Metal (Apple), and Direct3D 12 (Microsoft),...
Why I prefer JSON5 over JSON
JSON5 is a superset of JSON that allows for more flexible syntax and features. This post will disccus reasons why I prefer JSON5 over JSON. What is JSON5 The JSON5 Data Interchange Format is a...
Keeping hidden text findable
Text that is visually hidden cannot be found by the browser's find-in-page feature and may not be visible to accessible technology like screen readers. This is a problem for screen reader users, who...
Using CSS Wisely
CSS has progressed enormously in the last few years. This is both good and bad. The good CSS has become very powerful and it has gained many new features that make design and development work...