giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
How to win at CORS
A comprehensive introduction to CORS.
HTML head tags
Good list of tags that can go in the header section of a web page.
CSS selectors cheatsheet
Good cheatsheet of CSS selectors.
Copy to clipboard pure JavaScript - JSFiddle
Example code for copying rich text to the clipboard from JavaScript.
CSS Grid Generator
Handy-looking CSS grid generation tool.
BADA55.io - CSS hex color words for web developers
Amusing, and not always sfw, resource for colours with "interesting" names.
Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML - DEV Community
Short article about some handy DOM manipulation methods and idioms in JavaScript.
User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
Really rather funny exploration of some of the worst design elements you can find on the Web.
MySQL and storing emoji: proper utf8mb4 with Django | exana.io
The MySQL unicode issue as seen from a Django point of view.
Placeholder support for contentEditable elements, without JavaScript
Handy method of adding placeholder-a-like text to contenteditable elements in a document.
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
List of online tools and services that are useful for software development, and which have a free tier that allow for testing things out.
A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.
Handy set of svg-based icons, ideal for websites and web-based apps.
Here’s what I didn’t know about “content” - Manuel Matuzović
Deepish dive into what the content property can do in CSS.
Media Queries Level 5
Some detail on the CSS query that lets you detect of someone has their OS set to prefer dark mode rather than light.
Setting up a local web server on macOS 10… - Apple Community
Setting up a local web server, especially with php and serving from a user's home directory, on macOS.
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
Favicon generator
Very handy favicon generator. Covers all the useful bases.
Starboard
Site that sort of provides active JavaScript notebooks, with a view to doing most/all of the work on the client side. I was sort of hoping there'd be a self-host option or something and I'm not seeing that. On the other hand it could be a good tool for tinkering with and prototyping code.
Indexing outgoing blog links
Nice idea that I might have to try myself some time: index and analyse the outgoing links from blog posts to see what it is you link to the most.
Why logging out via a GET URL is a bad idea
Fun tweet from a while ago now that highlights the fun to be had by having side-effects hanging off a GET rather than a POST; from a time when it more or less still wasn't quite the issue it ended up being.
Bioicons - high quality science illustrations
Handy collection of biology-related icons.
Hexcodle | The Daily Hexcode Guessing Game!
While it's fairly trivial to beat in a number of different ways, it's a fun idea.
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
A tutorial on getting to grips with WebGPU.