Exploring Typescript: Setting up Typescript
Typescript is an interesting language. It's a typed superset of Javascript that you can compile to usable Javascript, either ES5 or later yearly versions of the language. Because it's not straight...
Creating a login system for web apps
I'm working on a starter application template to get me started when working on prototyping ideas. One of the things that I'm most interested on is how to create a login system for Express-based...
Updating software tools: Homebrew, Ruby Gems and NVM-based Node
Doing software updates outside of what Apple offers with macOS is tedious and easy to forget. I also have at least three different systems to update: Homebrew, Ruby Gems and Node.js installed with...
Permissions policy and API
The Permissions API gives use the ability to request permission from the user to use a given web API. This is an update of the 2020 posts Feature Policies and Working with Feature Policies in...
Revisiting CSS Custom Properties
CSS variables are awesome, particularly when implemented using the @property at-rule but we need to remember that there can be too much of a good thing. This post will talk about how to define custom...
Centering things with CSS
Centering content, particularly vertical centering, has always been very challenging to me. The old way # These are some techniques to center content using CSS before Flexbox. Aligning text # Aligning...
Improving performance of a WordPress site (2): Optimizations
Now that we've set up the baseline, let's see how much we can improve it. Enable a cache plugin # We will first install a Cache Plugin to make easier to cache different portions of the website. I will...
Loading fonts on the web
It surprising to me that we still need to discuss font loading on the web after how long we've been able to load fonts using @font-face. Before we jump in let's do a brief trip down font loading...
Brotli compression streams
In a previous posts, I discussed the basic of streams and how to use them,how to use them in service workers, and how to build custom streams. This post will cover an additional area of interest:...
Be mindful of ch units
I think ch units in typography are cool, but there was something about them that I hadn't thought about and is something that may impact your site's performance metrics. This post will explore ch...