Tag: web development
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Lightboxes Without JavaScript
An image lightbox overlay with no JavaScript whatsoever? Absolutely. Here's how I do it.
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Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)
Lots of guides explain how to improve WordPress performance easily. This guide is different. I'd like to share the hard ways in which you might squeeze even more speed out of your WordPress site.
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CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge
My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!
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512kb.club
Proud to say that danq.me is the newest site to be admitted into Kev Quirk's 512kb club. Let's keep the web lean!
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How a 2002 standard made 2022 bearable
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers.
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The Page With No Code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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Spring '83 Came And Went
As the sun begins to set on Spring '83, I finally finish implementing my server for the protocol, way too late for anybody to pay attention or notice.
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.well-known/links in WordPress
Dan implements a WordPress plugin to support Jim Nielsen's proposal for .well-known/links.
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DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.
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Can I use HTTP Basic Auth in URLs?
Dan dives into HTTP Basic Authentication, its history, and how modern browsers support it, with a focus on URL-based credential passing.
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Higher/Lower Datepicker
Can Dan make an even-worse "date of birth" field than those spinner ones?
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The Fourth Way to Inject CSS
Dan explains why using Link: HTTP headers for stylesheets should be considered a distinct way of loading CSS (that you can't use).
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Watching Films Together... Apart
This weekend, Dan hosted a film night for his friends via the magic of the Internet. Here's how he made it work.
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Endpoint Encabulator
Dan shares his latest digital project, the Endpoint Encabulator, with an explanatory video.
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<blink> and <marquee>
Dan explores the history of two (much-maligned) HTML tags of the yesterweb. With blinking marquees!