Building a virtual garage for hobby projects
I wanted my GitHub Pages hobby projects on-domain without a complicated workflow; Vercel rewrites turned out to be the cleanest path.
web development
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Stop converting SVG text to outlines
Converting SVG text to outlines breaks accessibility, search, and translation. SVGOMG-Font embeds a subsetted font instead, in your browser.
11ty is dead, long live Build Awesome
The static site generator I've backed for years just got its future sorted.
Collaborate on any webpage with a bookmarklet and URL state
Pin comments on any live webpage and share them as a URL with no account and zero cost. As in free.
Feedback buttons without JavaScript, using a 1990s web pattern
A Cloudflare Worker is just a CGI script, and that's exactly what a static site needs.
Your browser utility wants to be a floating palette
The floating palettes and window chrome of late-90s Mac OS may suit single-purpose browser utilities better than today's minimal UI.
URLs are the state management you should use
How well-designed URLs can replace state stores with shareable, bookmarkable state.
Output: An HTML-native tag once again saves JS befuddling
Use the native HTML output element to announce dynamic results — semantic, accessible, and simple.
Exposing HTML: The No-JS nudist CSS toggle
A tiny footer checkbox to turns your site styles off with no JavaScript required.
Go-go-go … I missed EmbedPDF
It seems a robust, embeddable PDF viewer for on‑page reading already exists.
Making PDFs more viewable
Because ‘Just give them the PDF’ isn’t good enough.
Using Nunjucks templates with React
A lightweight React wrapper with precompiled Nunjucks
Migrating to Zurb Panini 2.0
Not yet stable yet, but has some compelling features.
Muliple IPs on an Ubuntu EC2 VPC? Yes, please!
How to configure a second ethernet adapter on an Ubuntu EC2 VPC instance.
Cutting down on Postfix spam relaying
Postfix, it's used with many a LAMP stack to send out messages from a site, unfortunately it's prone to relaying many spam messages out of the box.
