… is the title of a an article by Chris Coyer about managing complexity on websites and why simple & boring might get the job done where “fancy” might not. Head over to the article, it is well worth reading, and don’t forget to […]
Category: Web development
I still can not draw …
… so I had to cheat. I imported a photo as backdrop image in Harmony Keymod (Site closed. Grab it from archive.org and clean up all the code added by archive org), then set the brush to “shaded”, the “offset-scale” to about 80 (I […]
Hunting Down Audio Bugs – a view from behind the scenes
All what should become a great mess later started with a single bug report some time back: “[SlowAudio] HTML5 Live stream has bad sound and video” (dramatic music effect) found by Gwendragon, who in the following events tested, logged and categorized a lot of […]
Harmony Keymod – Update
I got a bit spare time and once again added a small bit of functionality to the script: Flood fill – or maybe better known as “bucket” tool to most people. The basic function is in, it fills enclosed areas with the selected foreground […]
Rest in Peace, KartOO
Back then … Whenever I knew what information I needed but didn’t know which search terms would lead me to this information, you were there and helped me reliably. I only needed to enter a search term and you showed me a cloud of […]
The odyssey of finding a certain video
This is only a short rant about the stupidity of a bunch of search engines that basically all use the same search database. I knew that I had once seen a video of Brendan Eich (more than a year ago) that dealt with classes […]
How To add Search Engines that use POST to Vivaldi
There is a long standing problem with Vivaldi not adding every kind of search engines, e.g. the current implementation still does not add search engines like SearX This happens because those engines use POST instead of GET in their search forms and Vivaldi does […]
CSS beautifier
I confess that am a messy coder when it comes to formatting. I edit, insert and delete until the code runs like I want to. This often leads to perfectly readable code – for machines, but not for other humans – so if I […]
Google custom search, the simple side of google
Outdated – Google switched the custom search off “Everyone” uses Google, so do I (among other search engines) but the Google page got a bit heavy over the years and I felt watched. If you look into the page source you see all kind […]
IE, generated select boxes, change event and WTF?!
While I was writing a bigger JS project, I needed a generated select box that was filled with its options from somewhere. I tested it in Opera 11 and all was good. Then I opened Firefox and it worked, as it did in Chromium. […]
