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Source, one of the many blogs I follow, has recently had a themed content week focusing on security. For their main readership this means security for the newsroom, security for the journalist, but …

Many people use disposable emails to preserve privacy and enhance digital security, so why not do the same with your phone …

I always forget what closures are, even if I continue to use them. The article makes a case for considering closures as stateful functions which is quite neat. Basically, closures allow a …

An excellent collection of articles, tutorials, and advice on modern web development challenges. From PWAs to accessibility to caching, there's a lot of information …

The story of Michael Gillespie, a brilliant (yet modest) programmer who has become one of the world's leading ransomware crackers. He works for free, sometimes alone and sometimes with others in the …

A succinct and to-the-point teardown of why 2FA (two-factor authentication) is beneficial for user verification by businesses, but terrible for preventing things like phishing attacks (because the …

Starling Bank frustrates and impresses me in equal measure. Their technical solutions are magical – when they work – but their service is steeped in a privileged bias that makes them hard to truly recommend.

Memory augmentation has always interested me. I'm envious of those that never forget a name or can quote verbatim. Like Mark Llobrera, I've started using technology to never …

So the end is nigh. Fifty-two weeks, fifty-nine articles, two failures and the most complete challenge I've ever set myself. Sure, I may not have managed to write once a week, every week, during 2017 …

Craft CMS has the ability to accept environment variables as well as aliases. It can be worthwhile understanding how these two seemingly similar concepts differ, and when you might want to use one over the other.

I mostly use my iPad for watching YouTube. So what do I do now that Google has locked my device out of the YouTube app because it's too old? Why is it possible for a company to effectively remove features from my device that worked yesterday?

Notes from the 2020 Jamstack Conf. Some interesting dives in the Jamstack community and various applications of Jamstack technologies, with tweet threads as usual.

An exhaustive guide to image optimisation, compression, formats, and quality on the …

I've been thinking a lot about an article I read recently that called out technical writing online for being overly trusted. But shouldn't that same argument apply more universally to third-party code coming from any source?

For the last month, I've been getting show-stopping errors in Craft. My web host couldn't find any faults, Craft support had no clue, and it only affected one machine: one with Bitdefender installed. I wonder...

A quick (and dirty) way to fetch local data from a JSON file and modify the look of a page in Astro, completely natively.

An open-source fork of the Firefox web browsers, with a strong(er) focus on privacy and security. Basically disables all telemetry and most of the slightly questionable decisions that Mozilla have …

Various notes from my battle to get a local development environment working for Craft CMS.

A thorough overview of the new success criteria added (and removed) in WCAG 2.2, including clear guidance on how to test and pass each …

An interesting dive into the long-term complications and issues that Matt has come across whilst using GraphQL. From self-professed "hype train member" for the technology to now considering it a …