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The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches. Explore this powerful, user-friendly feature for precise content sharing and improved web experiences.

Victor Ayomipo experiments with the CSS `min()` function, exploring its flexibility with different units to determine if it is the be-all, end-all for responsiveness. Discover the cautions he highlights against dogmatic approaches to web design based on his…

Eric Bailey teaches us how to make a hyper-resilient component that responds not only to the container, but other languages too.

A collection of best practices that Chrome has identified as the biggest opportunities to optimize web performance and improve Core Web Vitals

A CSS reset I've been using for new projects.

Google is introducing new and improved Chrome performance controls for a faster, more efficient browsing experience.

Dark mode interfaces have matured a lot in the past few years. We all know the "traditional" approach using media queries but in this article, Sara Joy demonstrates modern CSS features that make respecting user color scheme preferences pretty darn easy.

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.

What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.

Learn how to create a full 3D hand controller with depth, using @mediapipe/hands and Three.js.

A guide to using ??= in JavaScript to handle null and undefined values elegantly

Fast Rust-based Web Bundler

Multi-modal testing with instant feedback in your browser

You can go a long time as a JavaScript developer without ever feeling the need for generators. Hence, it’s natural to wonder: What are they good for? Why would you ever need one? What’s the point? But generators can do some neat tricks. And they may even…

A collection of best practices that Chrome has identified as the biggest opportunities to optimize web performance and improve Core Web Vitals

This blog post showcases why fundamental code security is essential for an application despite all hardening measures applied in the underlying infrastructure.

Create lever-door puzzles with JavaScript for games, exploring graph structures and optimization to provide rewarding player challenges

Web component JS frameworks overview by their syntax and features: Svelte 5, React, Vue 3, Angular Renaissance, Angular, Lit, Ember Octane, Solid.js, Svelte 4, Vue 2, Alpine, Ember Polaris, Mithril, Aurelia 2, Qwik, Marko, Aurelia 1

Building apps with LLMs and agents like Replit has been incredibly productive. The generated code is often vanilla and repetitive, raising questions about the future of frameworks. While frameworks offer abstractions and accelerate development, LLMs seem…