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...

In Using Sliders in Javascript we saw how we can use sliders to control aspects of a user interface. This post will expand on the content from the previous post and build a full configuration panel...

Publishing NPM modules has become progessively more complex over time (go figure). We now have to contend with ESM versus Common JS, Typescript versus Javascript, setting a default module type, and...

I've looked at streams in the context of Node and the browser, but I haven't really done anything with them because I couldn't figure out what the best use for them was. As I started working with more...

In the last post we discussed encoding video using the FFmpeg command line tool as a way to compress video and test the results. We used h.264 (AVC), h.265 (HEVC), VP9 and AV1. This post will explore...

I've always been interested in video compression, particularly on how it works for the web. This post will cover these areas: Terminology necessary to understand the commands we will use What codecs...

In macOS we have a few disadvantages when it comes to software version management. The good thing is that macOS developer tools do come with versions of Python and other software bundled as part of...

What browsers should we support? This is an interesting question: What browsers should we support? This is a deceptively simple question to ask and even harder to answer. This post will try to address...

Working with grids on web content can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. This post will cover different ways to place content on a grid and what would you use them for. The idea is to...