Getting localized month and day names in the browser
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app.
Cory's amazing dot paper
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper.
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier
Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements.
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors.
Introducing Surreal CMS 7
Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites.
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill.
A clever way to style the <mark> element
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials:
Opening a new window after an async operation
I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window.
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: