SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

12Dec2024

The death of the stubborn developer

How stub­born devel­op­ers are get­ting left behind by refus­ing to adopt chat-ori­ent­ed pro­gram­ming (CHOP) as their pri­ma­ry devel­op­ment approach.

11Dec2024

Claim File Helper — ProPublica

You like­ly have the right to access records that explain why your insur­er denied your claim or pri­or autho­riza­tion request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to gen­er­ate a let­ter request­ing your claim file from your health insur­ance com­pa­ny.

04Dec2024

Fontsource

Down­load and self-host 1500 open-source fonts in neat­ly bun­dled NPM pack­ages. Access a com­pre­hen­sive library of web type­faces for free.

03Dec2024

Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. Comeau

Glassy head­ers have become a core part of the slick start­up” UI toolk­it, but they’re all miss­ing that final 10% that real­ly makes it shine. In this tuto­r­i­al, you’ll learn how to cre­ate the most real­is­tic lush frost­ed glass any­where on the inter­net.

20Nov2024

LDRS — UI Ball

Free, open-source load­ing ani­ma­tions. Avail­able as copy/​paste HTML or drop-in web com­po­nents. Com­pat­i­ble with every mod­ern frame­work.

16Nov2024

qntm/held-karp

JavaScript and WebAssem­bly imple­men­ta­tions of the Held-Karp algo­rithm for solv­ing the trav­el­ling sales­man prob­lem — qnt­m/held-karp

10Nov2024

HTTP Security Headers: A complete guide to HTTP headers

HTTP Secu­ri­ty Head­ers are essen­tial to any web­site. Learn about the HSTS head­er, Con­tent Secu­ri­ty Pol­i­cy head­er CSP, XSS pro­tec­tion, cache con­trol, strict trans­port secu­ri­ty, set-cook­ie head­er, and many more http head­ers in this com­pre­hen­sive guide with exam­ples and take your web­site secu­ri­ty head­er game to the next lev­el with Dark­re­lay.

30Oct2024

HTML Form Validation is heavily underused

HTML Forms have pow­er­ful val­i­da­tion mech­a­nisms, but they are heav­i­ly under­used. In fact, not many peo­ple even know much about them. Is this because of some flaw in their design? Let’s explore.