Posts about 'housekeeping'
-
Making This Blog Even Faster With Speculation Rules
Browsing the HTMHell Advent Calendar I learned about a completely new-to-me browser API called “speculation rules.” This poorly-named (according to me) feature allows browsers to prefetch or even pre-render content speculatively, basically predicting what a user is going to click on. Currently, this feature is available in Chromium-based browsers, but...
Accessibility the Easy Way With Deque's Linter
I have been interested in, though never an expert in, web accessibility, for years. I believe common-sense affordances like alt text and keyboard navigability in a website are shining examples of the curb-cut effect, so while I am not (currently) disabled1, I do at least try to make my websites...
See Me at Girl Geek in March!
Look who that is, right there in the bottom row, third from the right! Oh yes, it’s me! Goodness gracious, I am thrilled to be speaking at Girl Geek X Elevate this spring. I’ll be giving a 25-minute version of a lightning talk I did based on this blog post....
Site Updates for September
Frequent visitors to the site may have noticed some minor layout changes around here. I’ve moved my list of projects to the top of the main page. Crucially, it is now mobile friendly as well. Projects also have tags on them now to distinguish between apps (something that may be...
Hello, Electron
I mentioned that I wanted to experiment with packaging 2048-invaders as an Electron app to see if it improved performance. Turns out, Electron is easy (and awesome)! There are a ton of very opinionated templates out there to turn a Phaser game into an Electron app. I experimented with a...
Hello, world
First post, first time using Jekyll! I’m really liking it so far. It feels a lot like building a website in the “old days”–the real old days of just HTML. You just write a thing, and poof, it appears. Except that it also has all the modern bells and whistles...