Web Dev

Modern web development from someone who builds it. CSS, JavaScript, web standards, and the patterns that actually scale.

Build a serverless API with Cloudflare D1

Cloudflare D1 tutorial: build a Hono REST API on a Worker, add read replicas with the Sessions API, and turn the free tier into real request budgets.

Brass magnifying inspection rig over a wooden tray of pinned web page cards, each showing the same gradient headline and rounded icon

Impeccable names the 59 tells of AI-made web design

Impeccable design detector rules name 59 tells of AI-made frontends. I ran the scanner: 41 rules fire on source files, 50 on a real browser render.

A stamping press producing identical purple gradient web pages while a rule-inscribed gate transforms a few into distinct newsprint, terracotta, midnight, and green designs

Hallmark spends 67 KB of rules to avoid AI design slop

The Hallmark design skill for Claude Code fights AI-looking layouts with a 67 KB rule file, 20 themes, and 58 gates. Here is what that buys and costs.

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WebMCP runs on my blog while Apple fights the whole idea

WebMCP lets a web page register tools that AI agents call in the browser. Chrome ships it in origin trial, Apple opposes it, botmonster.com runs 7.

HTTP/3 is faster, but not on every network you test

What QUIC fixes over TCP+TLS, how to enable HTTP/3 in Nginx and Caddy, and how to measure real gains. Includes honest cases where HTTP/3 doesn't help.

Compile Rust to Wasm tutorial

Compile Rust to WebAssembly with wasm-pack for near-native browser speed. Toolchain setup, loading modules, size optimization, and debugging.