Plausible.io: An easy (and ethical) Google Analytics alternative
Discussing my decision to migrate from Google Analytics to Plausible.io, a privacy-focused analytics platform.
Posts pertaining to web development and related topics such as web standards, web browsers, and industry news
Discussing my decision to migrate from Google Analytics to Plausible.io, a privacy-focused analytics platform.
I just released fretboard.buzz, a free online tool that helps luthiers design fretboards for guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele, and more.
PDFObject 2.3.0 has been released and is available immediately on NPM and related CDNs. The new pdfobject.com features more thorough documentation and examples.
I decided to make it easy for everyone (especially me!) to embed PDFs in a Vue project. Introducing: PDFObject-Vue, a PDFObject component created for Vue 3. Now available on GitHub and NPM.
A personal retrospective on Internet Explorer, the browser we loved to hate.
Pour a cold one for SWFObject and learnswfobject.com.
Updating PDFObject for the modern web.
When developing web pages, I use my Mac’s built-in Apache or MAMP.app. Viewing the page means using an address such as http://localhost/mypage.html. I decided to make my life a little easier by writing an AppleScript that looks at the open tabs in Chrome and Safari then replaces “localhost” (or custom domain) with my current IP address. Saving this as a service enables me to go to Chrome > Services to run the script.
The limitations of browsers and the HTML5 spec mean you can’t expect a fully 1:1 conversion from Flash to HTML, regardless of libraries like CreateJS.
Just say no to Flash.