Usability Tips

• Guidelines for UI Checkboxes
• Radio Buttons vs. Dropdowns

Motivation

• Short Story: The painter without signature

Engineering

Web Infrastructure

• Infrastructure: FreeBSD VNET Jails Networking
• AVIF: Serve the Optimal Image Format with Nginx
• TLS: Securely creating TLS certificates with Let’s Encrypt
• Anti-FOUC: Deploy Assets Before Documents
• HTTP Cache: Hitting 304s Across Servers
• VirtualBox: Scripted VM Creation
• Shell Script: Convert to AVIF Programmatically
• Nginx: Pretty Routes for Static HTML
• Node.js: Health Check DNS Load Balanced Web Servers
• ZFS: Creating FreeBSD Jails

Web Frontend Development

• Security: Getting rid of NPM scripts
• Dependencies: Better `npm outdated` command
• Architecture: Desktop-like SPA Architecture
• JavaScript: Types in plain JavaScript
• Cookies: How to show the 'allow cookie' prompt?
• JavaScript: Bitwise Table Lookup (code multiplexer)
• Typography: How to fix HTML widow words?
• Performance: Prefetch Pages and DNS Records
• OS Detection: navigator userAgentData