Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints This is a short note to document storing data in JS’s bigint type. I tried this out in a project recently, and it’s not obviously a terrible idea, as long as you take into account all the caveats that make it only useful for very specific case…

Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints This is a short note to document storing data in JS’s bigint type. I tried this out in a project recently, and it’s not obviously a terrible idea, ...

Here’s a belief I’ve held for a while but only recently been able to put into words: explanatory comments are often easier to understand than explanatory variable or function names. Consider a complic...

Javascript’s new “Explicit Resource Management” proposal adds the using statement, a way to automatically close resources after you’ve finished using them. But as part of the same proposal, a number o...

If you’re used to React, you’re probably used to using useEffect to run side-effectful code, such as integrating with third-party libraries or setting up MutationObservers1. SolidJS also has createEff...

A bit over a month ago, I switched my blog over to BunnyCDN. I wanted to update that post when the trial period was up, but I ended up being busy, so here’s an update from a month and change in. Prici...

Given some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare. After loo...

Match + labelled blocks & breaks = fallthrough. It works, but it's not very pretty!

Fluid responsive design

Jujutsu is a relatively new version control system that is designed around working directly with commit-like objects called “changes”1. Each change has an ID, and these IDs are important because they’...