The curated bookmark blog of web dev curiosities
An interactive tool to test SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email security with guided results. This could be quite educational if email configuration confuses you. Alternatively, mail-tester.com can provide the same results quicker without The Matrix references.
Chris Coyier’s post-mortem of CSS-Tricks sale to DigitalOcean. CSS-Tricks is among the pantheon of web resources, alongside MDN and Stack Overflow, that every developer discovers looking for help. It’s such a shame how DigitalOcean have treated it. One can only hope the existing content and URLs are kept alive.
RSS is alive and well as @paulcuth proves. This little web tool searches your fediverse handle and surfaces RSS feeds in your neighbourhood
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Incredible footage from the Red Bull YouTube channel. This drone from Dutch Drone Gods reaches 350 km/h.
This is a fun experiment by James showing what is possible with open standards. I love these type of projects.
I’ve always found Serverless
to be a rather glaring misnomer. How can you quantify something that doesn’t exist? The answer is: expensively. This small blog shares a few serverless horror stories — oops!
Open Web Advocacy calls out Apple for degrading the web experience on iOS. We encourage Apple to engage with all stakeholders urgently, transparently, and in good faith to restore and enhance these essential capabilities.
I like how Heydon Pickering describes SPAs. Pair it with Nikita Prokopov’s article: JavaScript Bloat in 2024 — it’s difficult to argue in favour of SPAs when most turn a blind eye to performance.
Jeff Geerling puts an absurd but cute $120 Raspberry Pi 5 water cooling kit to the test. Ignoring the upfront cost, this kit’s size and energy usage are nonsensical. But isn’t that what tinkering with a homelab Pi is all about? It’s a shame the Pi 4 and 5 practically require active cooling.
Bramus Van Damme explains all in the title. Very clever stuff. This is client-side only highlighting that leaves no trace.
Eric Portis provides a colourful guide to colour spaces, colour gamuts, and the new CSS colour functions. The interactive visual illustrations make the scary math palatable.
How often are you asked to update a Royal Cypher? An interesting change to the GOV.UK Design System. Now let’s see how long it takes to bust a favicon cache.
Proud of your non-AI work? Slap a badge on it! I think this project undermines itself when you read further. at least 90% of your content is created by humans
— I suppose “10% by AI” doesn’t have the same vibe.
Retro Game Mechanics Explained is a YouTube channel diving deep into the unique programming challenges of classic video games. How do you generate a pseudo-random number with only a dozen assembly instructions? What is a Markov chain? This video explains all with Pac-Man ghosts.
The Open Web Advocacy continue to do a great job chronicling Apple’s hostile approach to the EU’s Digital Markets Act and open software development in general. Apple fans remain resolute in defending the trillion dollar company they base their lifestyle around.
My initial thoughts on the new JSR: JavaScript Registry. JSR only allows ECMAScript modules and takes a TypeScript first approach to JavaScript delivery.
A content rich email and RSS newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web
. I’m impressed by the effort put into each release. Own Your Web is far more than a list of links (I should take note…)
Matt Palmer explores the world of TLDs; the top-level and country-code domain names like .com and .eu. Choosing a domain is more than just a monetary decision.
Mark Zuckerberg shares a video ‘review’ of the new Apple goggles on Instagram (click warning). Unsurprisingly he concludes that the Meta Facebook Quest Pro is a better product. Would you rather pay the Apple tax, or give away all your private data? I’d argue that neither are worth buying. There’s something fascinating about Zuck’s thinly veiled undisclosed #ad.
Willem Pennings has built a self-balancing cube with motors, flywheels, stainless steel, and custom circuitry and software for the ESP32-S3 microcontroller. Pennings’ cube is inspired by the Cubli project.