2024-03-16 15:04:54

Two important things:

1. If you disagree with someone online you don’t HAVE to tell them. If you must disagree then at least do so with respect and curiosity for the other’s opinion, and give a reason.

2. I’m sick of seeing the abuse that minorities in tech get. Just stop it. I’m in a dev team with 2 women of colour. They are two of the best engineers I’ve ever worked with in a long web dev career. Anyone can be an excellent software developer. And kindness should be default to everyone.

2024-03-09 16:21:21

This is using JavaScript canvas manipulation to remove the background and CSS filters for shadows. Trying to get attention to detail while minimising dependencies! Totally amazing what the web platform can do. The only library here is Alpine.js.

2024-03-09 16:18:15

Having so much fun.

After @davatron5000 recommended CoraQuest, and realising that its customisation tools lacked a weapon card maker, guess what I’m making (with the maker’s blessing too)!! 😃

2024-03-08 11:38:12

Today I’m working with some of my own old code (from 10 months ago) and a well documented API and it’s completely gloriously wonderful!!!!!!!! 😃🙌

Put the work in now. Reap the benefits later.

Thank you 2023-me!

2024-03-08 09:45:14

I’m starting to mentor someone to get into web development.

I’m reminded of some really excellent resources that you may not know about:

devdocs.io – multiple software développement references in one place. Also a PWA so works offline!
– Julia Evan’s excellent zines. The HTTP guide is a superb staring point for understanding how the web works under the hood. The debugging guide is excellent. wizardzines.com

2024-03-05 21:17:28

I wish I had a home office I could retreat to. Our home is modest. Our “office” is the middle room and a thoroughfare. It’s not ideal. But also it’s not quiet.

There’s lots of stuff I would do if I had a decent space.

Perhaps I don’t actually need one though? Am I overthinking? Procrastinating?

2024-03-05 08:30:45

I’ve also got totally addicted to a little mobile strategy game called “Turmoil”. It consumed a whole evening last night. And I’m sure the tiny graphics are ruining my eyes!

2024-03-05 08:29:35

Having heard so much about Brandon Sanderson, I spotted “The Way of Kings” on Kobo for 99p and picked it up. Seems to be quite a tome! Did I do good?

2024-03-05 08:23:14

Laravel 11 releases next week with simplified app structure and config and SQLite support baked in and enabled by default.

Plus there is Laravel Herd: a simple, first-party web server app.

It will be a superb platform for learning about web dev from the ground up.

2024-03-03 13:52:33

My daughter telling me about the song “I don’t like Mondays”

“I don’t like Mondays. And I don’t like ‘I don’t like Mondays’. So I don’t like ‘I don’t like Mondays’ on Mondays”

2024-02-28 23:25:45

Righty. I think I have a nicely working watch script + auto-reloader that doesn't poll.

That was WAY harder than I expected – mostly because of how nginx doesn't put headers on some things.

Need to tidy up and document. But want to get this into my small site template!

Making things simple is complicated!

2024-02-28 09:20:05

So having discovered Live.js and Turbowatch and then deciding to write my own simple file watcher using a shell script and Live.js as a reloader, I wondered… do you need to poll?

WebSockets was an option for sending server-side changes to the browser. But too complex for my needs.

Then I found this ancient Server-Side Events API that's been around since Chrome version 6! And it's PERFECT!

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do