Blog
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Noobs WPT in Chromium learnings
I'm happy to have finished my first Chromium bug that adds a WPT. Writing a WPT I found to be more fun than writing usual C++ based tests. But I did learn a bunch from issues I ran into and otherwise that I want to record here.... Read more.
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Eleventy on GitHub Pages (Part 3)
Previously, I made an Eleventy based GitHub project with GitHub automation to run Eleventy when checking in changes and hooked up a custom subdomain to the GitHub pages thinking I would start a new domain for the new blog. But I changed my mind again and now have my old URI pointing to the new blog:... Read more.
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CSS Scroll Animated Sticky Header
I've made a sticky header that scroll animates all using CSS. I'm using the new position: sticky to make my <header> stick to the top of the page as the user scrolls down. Then I'm using animation-timeline: scroll(root) to animate the header and its content shorter when scrolling down the page.... Read more.
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Eleventy on GitHub Pages (Part 2)
Previously, I made an Eleventy based GitHub project with GitHub automation to run Eleventy when checking in changes. I stopped at that point because hooking in all my old blog's posts without changing their URIs sounded like a big pain, but now I've decided to go ahead and just link from old blog to new blog and not try to move them.... Read more.
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Eleventy on GitHub Pages
I wanted to replace my existing blog solution with a simple markdown setup. I decided to give Eleventy a try and host it on GitHub Pages. Here are the steps I've taken so far:... Read more.
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Restricted Capabilities and MSIX APIs
SysInternals is in the Windows Store? This surprised me since last I knew you couldn't have admin-y utilities as appx packages in the Windows Store.... Read more.
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404 Good News, Bad News
So much has to go right to get a 404. Machines all over the world talking to each other over a surprisingly large number of protocols. It's almost a disservice to call it an error.... Read more.
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Watch JavaScript via Proxy
JavaScript has a type Proxy that lets you intercept all interactions with an object - all property reads, writes, method calls, and so on. One fun thing you can do with this is watch how JavaScript itself interacts with your objects.... Read more.
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JavaScript Arrays are neat
JavaScript arrays are unbelievable. If I told you the length property of an array is writable you might chuckle and say 'oh JavaScript'. But no, it goes all the way.... Read more.
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Right-To-Left Override Twitter Name
Its rare to find devs anticipating Unicode control characters showing up in user input. And the most fun when unanticipated is the Right-To-Left Override character U+202E. Unicode characters have an implicit direction so that for example by default Hebrew characters are rendered from right to left, and English characters are rendered left to right. The override characters force an explicit direction for all the text that follows. ... Read more.