Tailwind CSS Experience
Finally, a CSS toolkit that is technically sound and easy to use
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Hotwire Turbo Experience
Turbo is a new way to communicate between the javascript client side and the serverside, developed by the great folks at Basecamp. This blog post is a summary of my brief experience with Turbo
How to write Javascript like Elixir
Javascript has a concurrent programming model that centers around promises, async functions and the await primitive. However, I want to use the conceptually simpler and more robust actor model that is widely used in the Elixir/Erlang world. Can I do it? Let's find out.
Modal is considered harmful
Modal is a way to mimic a pop-up window in a webpage. Instead of a real native pop-up with all the annoying nature in it, a modal is implemented with HTML/CSS/Javascript, so it is actually just a part of the page, and only looks like a modal dialog. They are everywhere; but do they really make sense now?
Deploy a 32bit application to fly.io
fly.io gives you upto 3 256MB VMs in the free tier. 256MB is not a whole lot for a modern application; How to make the most use of it? You may want to deploy in 32 bit.
Pass data from site A to site B
How to pass data between 2 websites, with no trust or shared secret established between the 2 websites?
SPA, History API, and hash links
How I relunctantly adopted a SPA style for roastidio.us web site and my struggle with backward and forward navigations