15 years of blogging đź”—
My first blog post was published just under 15 years ago in March of 2011. Since then, I’ve published 151 posts, including this one. (If I was a numer [...]
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Building a browser API in one shot đź”—
TL;DR: With one prompt, I built an implementation of IndexedDB using Claude Code and a Ralph loop, passing 95% of a targeted subset of the Web Platfor [...]
AI tribalism đź”—
“Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” – ClickHole “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John [...]
2025 book review đź”—
My reading appetite has been weak again this year, which I blame on two things: 1) Slay the Spire being way too good of a video game, and 2) starting [...]
An experiment in vibe coding đź”—
For the holidays, I gave myself a little experiment: build a small web app for my wife to manage her travel itineraries. I challenged myself to avoid [...]
How I use AI agents to write code đź”—
Yes, this is the umpteenth article about AI and coding that you’ve seen this year. Welcome to 2025. Some people really find LLMs distasteful, and if t [...]
The <time> element should actually do something đź”—
A common UI pattern is something like this: People do lots of stuff with that “4 hours ago.” They might make it a permalink: Or they might give it a t [...]
The fate of “small” open source 🔗
By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small co [...]
Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers? đź”—
Even if you’ve been doing JavaScript for a while, you might be surprised to learn that setTimeout(0) is not really setTimeout(0). Instead, it could ru [...]
Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs đź”—
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazilli [...]