Web and app developer. Coffee, beer, and running, in any order.
I’ve been running this website on IndieWeb principles and tech for over a year now, so I thought it was time for an updated edition.
It’s great to see how others are running their websites.
A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database?
A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some brilliant teens.
But let’s back up.
This is a fun story
Recently our team ran into a problem with getting the URL path in an ASP.NET Core MVC project. We were getting different results running locally versus deployed to our QA environment. Enter HttpRequest.PathBase.
Another artifact of the Django site migration to Dreamhost VPS is that Django thought absolute URLs should be http, not https. Which meant all my pages link[rel=canonical] tags were for http. Here’s how I fixed it.
Some well considered thoughts on implementing HTML web components from Jeremy. I’ve only done a little bit of web component work on projects recently, so it’s nice to see someone else’s worked-out patterns.