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David Bushell ā€“ Freelance Web Design (UK)

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HTTP Tunnel and Proxy in JavaScript

Published: October 22, 2024 10:00

Saturday morning I attempted to code an SSH server in JavaScript and gave up quickly when e = g^x mod p. On Sunday morning I regrouped ā€” I am a real coder šŸ˜¤ ā€” and I wrote an HTTP tunnel to prove it. An HTTP tunnel or HTTP proxy is used to forward webā€¦

Mattā€™s Malware

Published: October 14, 2024 10:00

Over the weekend Matt Mullenweg ā€” creator and would-be destroyer of WordPress ā€” has seemingly released malware upon two million innocent websites. Every WordPress website I have ever built may be victim. For ongoing WordPress vs WP Engine updates visit:ā€¦

Hey! Deno 2 looks fun!

Published: October 10, 2024 10:00

Deno 2.0 launched with an announcement video that opens like an episode of Silicon Valley. I have to admit I do enjoy a bit of cringe acting. Following the intro is an Apple-esque keynote that I skipped through, like an Apple keynote. Bun 1.0 did it betterā€¦

An Interesting HTML Parser Conundrum

Published: October 1, 2024 10:00

Despite better judgement I decided to code a basic HTML parser. Not the full HTML spec but enough to create a tree of nodes and attributes. Iā€™ve already written a streamable XML parser that has been working for my podcast web app. Parsing (most) HTML isnā€™tā€¦

Misleading Container Queries

Published: September 23, 2024 10:00

CSS container queries are spectacular! And I keep being mislead by the same mistake. Itā€™s starting to irritate me! In this blog post I document a bad code pattern to avoid. The Mistake Consider this example with a and two elements inside: With the CSSā€¦

Dumb Home

Published: September 19, 2024 10:00

My ā€œsmart homeā€ has gotten progressively dumber. Can you remember a time before the AI-pocalypse? The tech trend of yesteryear was to give everything with a digital pulse an IP address and a dubious 2.4GHz radio. The ā€œInternet of Thingsā€ is what theyā€¦

Is the Tailscale Magic Fading?

Published: September 9, 2024 10:00

The Tailscale magic āœØ is starting to wear off. I gave positive opinions on Tailscale back in August 2022: ā€œBasically Tailscale does one thing extremely well and the accompanying features arenā€™t bad either. The free tier suits me very well too! [ā€¦]

Hmmarkdown

Published: September 1, 2024 10:00

I rolled my own Markdown library! Itā€™s called Hmmarkdown on GitHub. Itā€™s published on both JSR and NPM too. Iā€™m testing in production on my own website! That might be a mistake but itā€™s too late now. āš ļø Work in progress! āš ļø Hmmarkdown is bad code and fullā€¦

Docker Network Bugs and Fixes

Published: August 12, 2024 10:00

Docker is great! Docker networks are grand. I know, controversial opinions! Docker and Docker networks are not easy to understand and often table-flippin-infuriating for newcomers. Trouble is they donā€™t get much easier for experienced users either. Iā€™m byā€¦