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The web: websites and web businesses, CSS and HTML, hosting, and the history of this site.
Static site hosting with Sitehoster
A folder named after a domain becomes an HTTPS site on your own server.
24 October 2026Maintaining a PHP framework for 25 years
From copy-pasted code in a web design company to a modular monolith, one version at a time.
7 October 2026A globally standard stylesheet
One stylesheet for plain, standards compliant HTML, instead of a sea of divs and classes.
15 July 2026HTML is all you need
Why plans and documentation written with AI work better as HTML than as Markdown.
15 February 2026React 19: Improvements to Suspense (but still not a whole solution)
React 19 lets you hand Suspense a promise, but you still have to keep your promises.
12 December 2024Taming React 2: mutable variables
Keeping a React value and its setter together in one variable, named with Mutable on the end, so components and hooks take one argument where they took two.
13 August 2024Taming React 1: composable state with useStateField
React components that each work on part of a big state object, using a useState-style pair for any field instead of a reducer action for every change.
16 July 2024Suspense for data fetching in React 18
What React Suspense does and how to use it without a framework.
5 April 2022Angular best practices for large teams
Keeping a large Angular codebase small by having one right way to do everything.
20 October 2020Automatic loading spinners in Angular
Locking any part of an Angular interface while its data loads, without a single loading flag.
20 October 20203D components in Angular with three.js
Write-up to come.
6 October 2020SVG components in Angular
Components that are part of an SVG drawing, by attaching them to the group element.
15 July 2019An RxJS primer
Treating everything that happens over time as a stream you can transform and combine.
16 October 2018WebGL raytracer
WebGL is quite effective at raytracing simple scenes with a decent frame rate.
26 December 2010iBuddy
A location-based social network.
1 June 2010CubeLogix 3D website
A 3D website made in Flash 8 with ActionScript 2, where the logo breaks open and three navigation cubes come out through the hole.
4 March 2007Zero-Now
Web design services.
1 January 2000