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TIL: Listen for the
popstateevent to see when the user clicks the “back” buttonMore generally, it fires whenever the user is navigating the session history.
My favourite websites from my bookmark collection
Websites that change randomly, that mirror the real world, or even follow the moon and the sun, plus my all-time favourite website design.
My custom <picture> plugin for Jekyll
How I make images that load quickly and look good for readers, and which are easy for me to manage.
Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework
The browser can be a pretty good place to run your JavaScript tests.
CSS formatting in the console
Did you know you can use
%cto format yourconsole.logmessages?A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen
Debugging my <picture> and <source> tags.
Finding redundant data in our Next.js props
A script that helps us optimise our
__NEXT_DATA__, which in turn helps reduce page size.Remembering if a <details> element was opened
A JavaScript function that remembers if a details element was reopened, and keeps it open when you reload the page.
Showing human-friendly dates in JavaScript
What’s a nicer way to show a date than an ISO 8601 timestamp?
Custom 404 responses in Finatra
A snippet for returning a custom 404 response in a Finatra app when somebody requests a missing page.