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Jan 19, 2025
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Why I Don't Use JavaScript Frameworks
Some people's RSS feeds only include excerpts of their articles, instead of the whole thing. And I get that. You put a lot of work into the design of your website, so you want your readers to read your work there, not in an external RSS reader.
Obligatory End Of Year Post
For my own sanity, I figured it is worth documenting the history of this site every year. So...let's do that!
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Jan 1, 2025
How To Automate Open Graph Images With Eleventy
I recently set up automatic Open Graph images on this site. Now, instead of making a custom OG image for every page on this site, I automatically generate them at build time.
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Dec 5, 2024
Not Sure How I Feel About "Was This Helpful?" Widgets
Let's say "Was This Helpful?" widgets have these two goals: 1) Survey users to see if your article was helpful. 2) Help users if they select "No" by pointing them somewhere else. If that's the case, then these widgets are far from perfect.
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Nov 29, 2024
Bringing Readers To Your Site From Your RSS Feed
Some people's RSS feeds only include excerpts of their articles, instead of the whole thing. And I get that. You put a lot of work into the design of your website, so you want your readers to read your work there, not in an external RSS reader.
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Nov 24, 2024
Technical Debt and You
Assuming you write good, reusable code, then the more features you add, the harder it gets to maintain that code. Because one change no longer affects one thing. It affects a dozen things. You need to take all that depends on your code into consideration.
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Nov 23, 2024
To Scroll, To Stick, Or To Stay: Sidebars
Why sidebars are still so popular is a mystery to me. Not that I'm against sidebars—I love them too. But as to why the rest of the industry still loves them alludes me, because I feel they require so much more design considerations than other widgets.
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Nov 23, 2024
Building A Screenwriter App That Uses Markdown Syntax
I've always wanted to try my hand at screenwriting, but I found them painful to format in traditional document editors. While there exists screenwriting software for this purpose, I don't feel like learning a whole new software. So instead, let's make a whole new software!
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Nov 23, 2024
My Dream Ad Network
Here's an idea: instead of having ad networks design the style of the ad and insert that into your site regardless of whether it fits or not, what if they let *you* design your own ad with HTML and CSS?
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Nov 23, 2024
Is Accessibility the Responsibility of the Browser?
Browsers come bundled with a bunch of accessibility options. Whether that's something complicated like a screen reader or something simple like allowing the user to zoom in, browsers make our lives as developers a lot easier.
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Nov 23, 2024
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