Practical notes and questions about building websites, applications, APIs, databases, and CMS platforms.
A favicon looks like one of the smallest details on a personal website. It may occupy only sixteen pixels in a browser tab, yet its absence becomes surprisingly visible when several tabs are open, a page is bookmarked, or a phone adds the site to its home scr…
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Some readers arrive through a search engine, read one page, and leave. Others remember a sentence months later and return, only to discover…
Print Stylesheets for a Personal Website — Making Pages Useful on Paper A while ago, I printed one of my own articles and discovered that t…
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…
