I think it’s fun to take stock of the tools we use as developers. You know, so we can look back and laugh at our primitive setups. And actually, to inspire you to share yours so I can steal all your better tools. Here’s a rundown of stuff I use, focused mostly on literal apps […]
Realtime applications (or games!), where multiple users are working at once and the state of the app needs to be in sync with each other and persisted, is more and more a common need and expected feature. But it’s not simple. There are products to help (PouchDB for data and Ably for messaging come to […]
The typical approach for these inputs is using multiple HTML inputs, one for each character. But is that a good idea?
There are 155,063 Unicode characters. A lot of that is stuff from other languages, but there is still a large amount of randomly useful characters like arrows and symbols and whatnot. There are so many that even if you find good lists, it’s hard to search and sort. I like Benjamin Milde’s idea, shapecatcher, that […]
There are A LOT of options these days for getting AI help right in your code editor. What seemed to begin with plugins has morphed into a lot of VS Code forks.
Kerning type is moving individual letters such that the space between them feels right. It’s not something you have to be terribly concerned about with web type generally, but it’s still a good design skill to have for working on type that is quite large or long-lasting like a physical sign, logo, giant headline, etc. […]
David Darnes asks: Is 2025 the Year of the ‘Design Engineer’? It’s arguably a bit of a new term and being used more and more as a job title. Like most job titles, it doesn’t have the strongest agreed upon definition, but it’s honing in around the front end and essentially a designer who can […]
Some plain-language baby-bear porridge writing from Laurie Voss: Is what you’re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it’s probably going to be great at it. If you’re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will […]
I was just working on a POST API at work. You POST some data to a URL endpoint, you expect a response. Buckle up, that’s the job sometimes. Happy path responses, error responses, handling incomplete or bad data, etc. You can just rawdog a web browser for this kind of work, building some kind of […]
Just in case you didn’t know, you don’t need a page to have ID’s on elements anymore in order to jump down to a particular place. We’ve reached support across all major browsers to link to Text Fragments, like: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/#:~:text=Web%20Performance%20Fundamentals%2C%20v2 The #:~: syntax is kinda funky, but here we are, and it’s not too hard […]
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