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Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

Posted on 2023-02-07 [Tuesday] by Jay Jay
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Some interesting rules of thumb for user interface design: Visual design rules you can safely follow every time.

One note I want to make for later on is to use #222222 instead of #000000 and #F2F2F2 instead of #FFFFFF.

Posted in Design, Notes, Web | Tagged design, rules, safe, UI, ux | Leave a reply

Empty $_FILES array with PHP file upload

Posted on 2023-01-03 [Tuesday] by Jay Jay
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Wow. I just spent a few hours debugging a problem with my PHP file upload. Turns out the fix was to include an ‘id’ attribute on the file input element. Have no idea why that is required or works, but it does.

Posted in Programming, Web | Tagged file, php, upload | Leave a reply

Interactive trees in HTML5

Posted on 2022-11-20 [Sunday] by Jay Jay
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So from here I learned how to do this.

Posted in Programming, Web | Tagged css, hierarchies, html5, interactive, trees | Leave a reply

How AWS came to be

Posted on 2022-09-09 [Friday] by Jay Jay
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A 2016 article about how AWS came about: How AWS came to be.

Posted in Business, Cloud, Internet, Web | Tagged aws | Leave a reply

Use console.log() like a pro

Posted on 2022-05-16 [Monday] by Jay Jay
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A good summary of the browser console facilities: Use console.log() like a pro.

Posted in Programming, Web | Tagged browser, console, console.log | Leave a reply

Don’t fight the browser preload scanner

Posted on 2022-05-14 [Saturday] by Jay Jay
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I probably should have read this one closer than I did: Don’t fight the browser preload scanner.

Posted in Programming, Web | Tagged browser, preload, scanner | Leave a reply

A Whole Website in a Single HTML File

Posted on 2021-12-24 [Friday] by Jay Jay

Via Hacker News today: A Whole Website in a Single HTML File. As can be seen over here.

Posted in Programming, Web | Tagged css, HTML, single page website

Taking Back the Internet

Posted on 2021-12-20 [Monday] by Jay Jay

This is great: Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time.

Posted in Internet, Web | Tagged self-hosting

Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML

Posted on 2021-12-15 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

This via Hacker News today: Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML.

Posted in Programming, Web | Tagged css, framework, picocss

Principles & Best practices of REST API Design

Posted on 2021-12-14 [Tuesday] by Jay Jay

Some thinking points for service design: Principles & Best practices of REST API Design.

Posted in Programming, Web | Tagged api, design, practices, principles, rest

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