Practical notes and questions about building websites, applications, APIs, databases, and CMS platforms.
Print Stylesheets for a Personal Website — Making Pages Useful on Paper A while ago, I printed one of my own articles and discovered that the paper version included almost everything except a pleasant reading experience. The navigation occupied the top, the s…
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A broken link feels small until it interrupts someone who was genuinely curious. They may have followed an old bookmark, mistyped a URL, or…
When I first built a personal website, publishing felt like placing a small sign in front of a house: the page existed, the address worked,…
When I first built a personal website, accessibility felt like a specialist subject I could postpone until the design was finished. The pag…
When I first added analytics to a personal website, the dashboard felt like a control room: maps, funnels, sessions, devices, and dozens of…
Fast broadband can make a website feel finished before it has truly been tested. The page opens instantly on a developer's laptop, the hero…
Database Indexing for Small Applications — Finding Data Before It Finds You Most database problems do not arrive with an alarm. A small app…
A few years ago, I was still very comfortable with VS Code. Open the project, click on the sidebar, install the extension, and everything w…
RESTful API vs GraphQL — Choosing the Right Door for Application DataAs an application starts to have a frontend, a mobile app, an admin da…
Some time ago, I just made a simple page to display live server logs. The initial idea was just to refresh the page every 5 seconds using…
