The main reason xinjs-ui exists is that I wanted to have a really good table component I could just plug into projects. It would be easier to just use something off the shelf, but virtual table components aren’t actually widely…
I decided to revisit two of the more interesting Chromium-based browsers, Brave—the privacy first browser that I was somehow convinced was based on Gecko and not Chromium—and The Browser Company’s Arc browser, which basically offers an alternative to the tab…
(In which I compare serving web apps to running a burger chain.) This is a long post. If you just want to know how to very simply get your dynamically-rendered pages indexed properly by Google (et al), just skip to…
I’ve been writing a lot of code, both front-end and back-end, for my current project, and lately I’ve had to do a lot of data-munging—processing legacy data from a badly designed PostgreSQL database into a—better designed, I hope—Google FireStore noSQL…
As far as I can tell, when I google this question I get answers that are years out of date, and stupid. No-one who uses java wants to launch the System Preferences control panel even if there were a Java…
I’ve been a remarkAble 2 user—on and off, mostly off—for a couple of years now. All the things that made an initial favorable impression are true, and the product has actually gotten a little better in certain respects (pinch-to-zoom!). But…
For some reason I’ve had a nagging urge to build a nice timezone selector ever since I started working on a calendaring system for a previous startup and we needed a timezone selector (in the end we just had a…
One of the things I find constantly grating about living in Europe is the low standard of web-development. Perhaps it’s a symptom of having to waste development effort on ridiculous EU-specific “privacy” protections, but I hardly think that’s an excuse.…
I don’t think anyone will seriously dispute Apple’s claim that their newly unveiled (but unreleased) Vision Pro headset is “the most technologically advanced consumer product ever released”. (I’m quoting from memory so this is probably not exactly right.) This thing…
Note: the title of this blog post refers to a piece of paper that fell out of the box when I first installed Master of Magic, an MS-DOS fantasy game derived from Master of Orion. Both games were absolute classics…