Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript (cache)

An extensive list of examples on DOM manipulation without any external libraries.

Web development moves at lightning speed. I still remember when I first started using libraries like jQuery, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Zepto, and many more.

Interesting to think about how libraries evolving fast back then was so exciting compared to today where I almost wish they’d slow down a bit. Maybe it’s from feeling like there was only a handful of options then and today there seems to be endless options.

Posted on February 16th, 2025 at 9:27 AM.

The hardest working font in Manhattan (cache)

An incredibly detailed and informative article on an old font, Gorton, that’s all over the place.

Posted on February 15th, 2025 at 11:21 PM.

How I built an AI company to save my open source project (cache)

Interesting read on the journey of an open source constraint solver started 19 years ago.

Posted on February 13th, 2025 at 9:40 PM.

obsidian-cupertino (cache, source)

After using Obsidian for daily notes at work for around three years with the Things theme, switching to the Cupertino theme is a breath of fresh air. It feels much nicer to have the application appear native. And for people who enjoy dark mode, it supports that too.

I do recommend the Style Settings community plug-in for its ability to tweak things a bit, such as hiding the active line highlight when editing.

Posted on February 12th, 2025 at 7:43 PM.

Monitoring ActionCable (cache)

I would never have found and fixed this without the monitoring that I’ve set up.

Detailed article on adding metrics for ActionCable, but I’m surprised yabeda-actioncable doesn’t exist when yabeda-anycable does.

Posted on February 11th, 2025 at 10:48 PM.

My approach to running a link blog (cache, source)

I realize now that link blogging deserves to be included a third category of low stakes, high value writing. We could think of that category as things I’ve found.

I enjoy the idea of a low-stakes, high-value writing category. My articles often take bits of time here and there over the course of weeks to complete, but short thoughts on all the interesting things online should be much easier.

So, here’s my first link with some very minimal commentary. To help speed up the process even more I can provide a URL to a short script to fetch the content, extract the title, create a Markdown file for me, and open it in my editor.

Posted on February 11th, 2025 at 9:16 PM.