John's blog

Talking about technology (mostly)

There’s a cool mind map covering all the things a rails developer needs to know over here: This is Why Learning Rails is Hard.

The above article referred to OWASP SameSite doco, and you can read about how to implement that with PHP.

See My current HTML boilerplate for some good ideas for a starting place for HTML content. I kept a copy, here.

An interesting approach to testing web services: A logical way to test online software.

A new version of Firefox released: Firefox 88.

Today via r/programming: HTML5 Tips. I think my favourite was the meter tag… or maybe the spellcheck attribute… lots of good tips over there.

This on r/programming today: CSS Tips. There are a lot of good tricks in there, this one was my fav:

.center {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;       
}

…it centres content vertically and horizontally.

Some good tools and techniques listed over one Tools for Auditing CSS.

This on r/programming today: Font size is useless; let’s fix it. Interesting article, but I didn’t read it closely.