Curated logs
- Supabase, Deno and Server Side Rendering A project I’m currently working on is using Supabase for its database and authentication layer. And so far so good. That is until I wanted to move all the …
- The search for link colors that are equally readable both black and white website backgrounds A one-rule CSS dark theme using system colors offers a lightweight solution for personal projects while accommodating user preferences and accessibility …
- End of September Blog Updates Recent updates to the blog include a redesign with a dark mode and holiday decorations, a shift in content structure, the creation of a personal code editor, …
- Mini Coding Adventure: a personal web desktop So last night when I was sitting down and watching an episode of “The Mole” on Netflix, inspiration struck and dusted off one of my old web projects …
- Mini-coding concept: An in-page editor for my blog posts For a while I’ve had my own little personal edit button on my website that redirected me to the post in edit view on Lillihub. Last week I decided that …
- 2024 Weird Web October https://weirdweboctober.website/ Themes Nature CSS Color - added 9/28/2025 Lists Food Notifications Science Hashtags Blessed Art API Ritual GIFs History Audio …
- I made some progress on my little solo rpg quine idea this weekend. I’m using the hex generation rules from the welshpiper.com. I also picked up the icons from the HPS …
- This weekend I’m thinking about building a html quine (like Tiddlywiki) for a hexcrawl inspired from the dungeons and dragons expert rulebook. I envision something to play …
- Using Deno and Micropub to launch heyloura.com into Geminispace! After last mini-coding adventure where I was exploring a simple command-line browser idea I had there was a comment by @sod that mentioned I might enjoy looking …
- Explorations with a command line browser So last weekend I was a bit tired of the internet. Which will probably be another post at some point. But suffice it to say that the invasive tracking browsers …
- Made some progress yesterday on my blog/game hybrid. I’m thinking that the blog post will be represented by the broken tablet and you’ll need to find the key to unlock …
- I had some time to play with code today (which I find relaxing). I’m thinking that I like conversations indented a bit on Lillihub. I have quite a few changes/updates that …
- I’ve been having fun with some Lillihub updates. No promises if/when these will go out, there is a lot of testing and tweaking to be done 👩💻
- It was a pretty good day today. I taught tai chi in the morning, got to have some fun playing with code, went apple picking with old friends and the kids, managed to fit in yard …
- Dev Diary 0013 - End of January through February Life has been hectic. Like I mentioned back in December, I’m juggling two close family members with health issues. My mother-in-law survived the surgery, …
- Private key (AES-CBC) encryption and decryption in Deno I found myself needing to encrypt a small string on Deno (and subsequently decrypt it later) for a small side project. I checked out a few websites with code …
- Dev Diary 0012: January 1st - 16th 2024 I’ve spent the last few weeks of the New Year, like a lot of others, reflecting on where I’ve been and where I want to go. So this update is a …
- At work I had to port our code base to .NET 8 and deal with all the issues that introduced. Took me the better part of three days. Getting this last error resolved in our Azure …
- Rewatched Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey. I already do a few things ✅ Write problems down ✅ Think deeply (I do often wake up with solutions) ✅ Draw pictures 🎨 but l want …
- I’m reviewing my solo development methodology and figuring out if anything needs any tweaks. Last year I tried adapting Shape Up and I think I need to shorten the cycles. Six …
- Dev Diary 0011 - December 11th - 30th This month has been rough. It started with an unusual diagnosis for my daughters injured knee, the stress of the holidays, and my mother-in-law going from a …
- I am both too tired to code and all I want to do is code. Conundrums…
- I’m working on some Lillihub tweaks 👩💻. I wanted to add a marker at the end of all the new posts since that last time Lillihub was viewed, but I’m having trouble with …
- Dev Diary 0010 - Week of December 4th This was a major work week. I’m trying to wrap up a couple more features and get in a few more bug fixes before I wrap up for the holidays. At work, I am …
- My App Defaults Guess I’ll join in the Duel of the Defaults 😄 I’ve held off since it seemed that most people were iOS users and I’m a Windows/Linux gal. But …
- Dev Diary 0009 - Week of November 27th This week I spent most of my time playing around with my blog theme. I realized I’ve been using Micro.blog for over a year now and I wanted to make some …
- Dev Diary 008 - Week of November 20th Whew... These last couple of months have been rough. This update is pretty short. I hosted Thanksgiving at my house this year so I wrapped up most dev related …
- I’ve been feeling the itch to learn something new and it’s a long weekend… time to dive into Rust and start with a “Hello World” 😆
- Dev Diary 007 - Week of November 13th Remember how I said, everything back to normal? That lasted all of Monday morning. Then I got the call from school that my daughter hurt her knee... getting a …
- Dev Diary 006 - Week of November 6th This week was back to pretty much normal now that everyone is over their colds and now that my wisdom tooth is gone 😄 General Development So far this year I've …
- Dev Diary 0005 - Week of October 30th Job Related This week ended up being a short week as well so I didn't quite get through my to-do list as I planned. But I still managed to straighten out the …
- Dev Diary 0004 - Week of October 23rd Job Related Vacation week 🥳 General I had high hopes for a productive vacation. I wanted to repaint my home office and decorate it. I wanted to get journaling …
- Dev Diary 0003 - Week of October 16th Job Related This week was all about adjusting the application to handle a special user role. In general the application is your standard multi-tenant …
- Dev Diary 0002 - Week of October 9th Job Related Now the MVP is done at work, it is time to show it off. We had a wonderful team lunch and I was able to walk the staff and the director through …
- Here was take two on my blog design. I had midjourney make the logo with the prompt of “pixel art Tai Chi girl who codes”.
- Dev Diary 0001 - Week of October 2nd I came across this blog post as I was working this week. Claire Codes - Dev Diary and it inspired me to try my hand at one. I’ve seen some other people …
- Made some progress enhancing the posting UI today. The web client is also responsive to device size and has and dark/light mode.
- Phase one of my not so super secret project, a Micro.blog web client, is complete! No frameworks; just hand-rolled HTML5/CSS on the front and deno in the back. Now it’s time …
- Huh, I guess you can’t have a user confirm a form submission without JavaScript. At least not that I could find. Darn. 🤔
- Thanks to @manton for updating the bookmarks JSON api this afternoon to include tags so now you can use @sod’s wonderful bookmark plugin to display them (assuming you have …
- I dislike working with dates in JavaScript. That is all 😒
- I’ve made good progress on my little, local only, app that uses a disappearing iframe trick. I still have bugs to squash and a longer post to write, but here’s the …
- Okay, I know I’m strange. But every once in a while I get a strong urge to code my own web browser. Just for the fun of it. Just to see how it works 😂
- Coding a framed productivity app - building out the calendar Coding a framed productivity app - building out the calendar This is a continuation of my experiments using iframes as a modular way to build an app. You can …
- A basic framed* website... more experiments with disappearing iframes A basic framed* website… more experiments with disappearing iframes Want to follow along? You are going to need some basic familiarity with JavaScript, …
- An experimental take on the retro website frames... disappearing iframes with vanilla-js, html, and css An experimental take on the retro website frames… disappearing iframes with vanilla-js, html, and css Want to follow along? You are going to need some …
- Let's code something experimental... an introduction If you can’t tell from my blog design, I’ve been on a bit of a retro website kick. I find them nostalgic and fun and I kind of miss the days where …
- As part of being more cognizant of the online subscriptions I have, I’m doing a digital life cleanup. Where I can I want build out my own apps to replace what I use. First …
- At work I’m tackling a huge software project and my normal approach isn’t cutting it. So over the holiday’s I read Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work …
- I got a Hobonichi Cousin journal for the new year and I’ve been been trying out different layouts to keep track of homeschooling, work, and my personal tasks. This is my …
- For personal projects I try to write clean and minimal code 👩💻. Then I go to my 9-5 and it’s an absolute mess. It’s so hard not to take a figurative scrub brush and …