AVIF has landed
Interesting article about a newer image file format; well worth paying attention to from a web-development perspective.
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.
www.nearlyfreespeech.net
Very affordable website hosting. Might have a look at this the next time I want to spin up a low-content site or custom blog or something.
Web WinAmp
Webamp, it really whips the llama's ass!
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.
12ft.io - Remove paywalls
Tool to try and remove paywalls from news sites.
Bioicons - high quality science illustrations
Handy collection of biology-related icons.
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time.
You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time.
Try out CSS Nesting today
CSS nesting in webkit.
Render: Cloud Application Hosting for Developers
Like it says on the tin, pretty much. They seem to have a rather nice static site hosting tier that's free.
HTTP raccoons
HTTP status codes as raccoons as a service.
Kinda like the cat one, only with less cat and more raccoon.
Hexcodle | The Daily Hexcode Guessing Game!
While it's fairly trivial to beat in a number of different ways, it's a fun idea.
Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives
The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla's reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:
- The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)
- While the Mozilla revenue drops
- And the Firefox Marketshare takes a nosedive
- While, at first, this seems ridiculously lopsided... perhaps it actually makes sense.
In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
A love letter to the square checkbox.
Stop using Brave Browser
Some problematic history relating to the Brave browser.
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
A tutorial on getting to grips with WebGPU.