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Today, I wanted to talk about digital gardens, being a whole person on the web, and some changes I think I'm going to be making to my various websites. Let's dig in! tl;dr: I'm considering merging my ADHD stuff and personal stuff into Go Make Things ...

The incredible Miriam Eric Suzanne published an article last week that's one of the most sobering, honest, damning, and powerful things I've read in a long time. It's about tech and tools and hero worship, and how the whole fucking industry seems to ...

Back in 2023, Amy Hupe gave a fantastic talk on meaning and burnout in the tech industry at the State of the Browser conference. Late last year, she gave a follow-up to to that same talk at FF Conf, and it's even better than the original In her talk, ...

I grew up in the mid-90s punk and hardcore and scene. As an angsty teen, I was really drawn to the anti-authority "tear down the establishment" aspects of anarchy, which was a pretty common thread in the scene. (I promise, this is about the web. ...

Over the last few days, we looked at how I build web apps using forms and a PHP backend, with a Web Component to make it ajaxy. Today, we're going to learn how to update other parts of the page whenever one of those ajax-based form updates happens. . ...

Yesterday, we looked at how I build JavaScript-free interactive web apps using HTML forms and PHP. Today, I want to share how I progressively enhance those into asynchronous ajaxy interactions using HTML Web Components and a little JavaScript. Let's ...

Yesterday, I gave an overview of how I approach adding dynamic content to a static, server-rendered website. Today, we're going to dig into one piece of that puzzle: ajaxy forms. Let's dig in! Forms FTW! Forms are awesome! With an HTML form, you can ...

Over the weekend, I converted a suite of custom web apps I maintain for my family from using a JS-rendered UI to my preferred PHP Islands Architecture approach. All of the initial HTML is rendered in advanced. Today, I wanted to show you how I turn . ...

Mustafa Enes Ertarhanac built a neat little tool for getting named colors by hue. You drag the slider to select the hue you want, and a selection of named colors are displayed for you to choose from. I really like this!

Last week, a friend of mine nerd-sniped me into an interesting challenge. An API they're using returns the date as a string in a fixed timezone (in their case, Denver, Colorado, USA), like this let dateFromAPI='2025-01-31T11:50:15'; And they wanted . ...