Opening and Writing Files With Go
In the last post, we looked at how to build an API server using Go. In this post, we'll look at one part of building command line applications: how to open and write files. We'll also cover related...
Creating the Backend for a Web App in Go
I've always struggled with how to bring languages like Go and Rust into my web development work. Tooling is the easiest way to go. There is a reason why most new web development tooling is written in...
Making HTML Headers Look Nice
Headings can show orphan issues that can cause readability issues. In this context, an orphan is a single word (or syllable) that sits at the bottom of a paragraph of text. As a developer, you don't...
Hanging punctuation in CSS
Chris Coyuer wrote about the hanging punctuation CSS property, how it works and why it may be useful. This property controls the pulling of characters, usually quotation marks, from the body of the...
Another set of possible color palettes
This post is an extension to the previous one What are Triadic and Tetradic Color Palettes and How to Use Them. It will explore further types of palettes, also known as harmonies in color theory, and...
What are Triadic and Tetradic Color Palettes and How to Use Them
In my last post Creating an OKLCH Generator Tool, I wrote about about Triadic and Tetradic palettes and how to build them using vanilla JS. This post will cover what these palettes are and how to use...
Creating an OKLCH generator tool
This code started as an exercise in ChatGPT prompt generation and a way to explore what we can do with OKLCH colors. It uses vanilla Javascript and deliberately avoids using libraries like Chroma.js...
Even More Array Methods
The ECMAScript specification gained a new set of methods for the Array object. These methods work on copies of the original array rather than modifying the original array directly. There are other...
A declarative web?
Jeremy Keith recently published Declarative design on his blog. The premise of the post is that there are two divergent ways to think about web design and building web content, encapsulated by these...
Template Literals
Among the large number of new features in ES6/ES2015 are Template Literals/Strings. These are backtick "`" enclosed expressions that allow for multiline expressions and string interpolations...