Working With Masonry Layouts
It appears that the CSS Working Group has decided to add masonry layouts as part of the CSS Grid Level 3 specification. IMO this sucks but it appears to be a done deal that will hurt developers in the...
It appears that the CSS Working Group has decided to add masonry layouts as part of the CSS Grid Level 3 specification. IMO this sucks but it appears to be a done deal that will hurt developers in the...
For the most part opening and reading files synchronously in the browser is not a big deal since the files are seldom large enough to cause any performance issues and reading from the local file...
Node.js has always supported Common.js as the module system. When building a package we use modules.export to define the elements in the package that can be consumed by other modules: // file:...
The Filesystem Access API is a Chromium-only feature that's part of Project Fugu. It allows you to work opening and saving files to the local filesystem. This post will discuss the feature and...
While we have touch and mouse events, pointer events, the pointer events API provides a unified interface for both mouse and touch devices. This post will explore pointer events, paying special...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...