what controls when submenus open downward vs when they open upward?
Here on the 'don, my 'emojis' submenu typically opens downward (boo - it often goes past the bottom of the screen) on a first try, and upward (yay! always works) on a second try.
Screencaps from a submenu in calendly.com that opens downward (yay! all options visible!) when it's the at the top of a list, but upwards (boo! opens *behind* a spacer that obscures several options).
This site runs on Laravel #Development #Webdev #Php #Laravel
As I've continued to over-engineer this site, there's been a mounting tension between what is and isn't dynamic. What should be dynamic, what needs to be dynamic, how often a given page or element is updated.
Updated my ko-fi site: https://ko-fi.com/davidaugust
With links to my profiles (like here) and new home for my articles and blogging: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/
Another migration step done.
Do I open up both my new site and ko-fi to donations?
itch.io creators are learning only 1 can get dicey.
Excited to announce our first keynote speaker for DjangoCon US 2025: Carson Gross!
Carson is the creator of HTMX and will be sharing insights on "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" - applying Nintendo Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi's philosophy to web development.
Can't wait! 
️ New Article: Over-optimized. Under-optimized. https://ift.tt/Sw2GLMH #WebDev #FrontEndDeveloper #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie
“Semantic markup doesn’t guarantee better indexing or extraction – but it creates a foundation that systems can use, now and in the future. It’s a signal of quality, structure, and intent.
If everything is a <div> or a <span>, then nothing is meaningful.”
#WebDev #HTML #SEO
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/why-semantic-html-still-matters/
Very fun post on "How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy". Because of course, who wouldn't want to do that? (If the modern #JavaScript ecosystem is anything to judge by, *everyone* wants to do that!)
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/how-to-make-websites-that-require-lots-of-time-and-energy/
XMLUI, practical UI for web apps without the complexity of React. #webdev
A simple website to discover music without algorithms:
https://allensynthesis.co.uk/notoalgorithms.php
#music #technology #tech #webdev #indieweb
@aletzi90 Hello 
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What We Lost with PHP and jQuery • Ibrahim Diallo
｢ No package managers, no build processes, no debates about hydration strategies. Today, creating even a simple webpage often involves configuring multiple tools, managing dependencies, and navigating complex development workflows. How we got here? What did we lose along the way? ｣
#Development #Overviews
JavaScript’s runtime decade · Running JavaScript beyond the browser and Node.js https://ilo.im/165oqw
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#JavaScript #Devices #Cloud #Browser #NodeJS #Deno #Bun #WebDev #Frontend #Backend
Blah! And another one with the z-index of 600000 - little baby jesus wept, ffs. This pushes me as a #webdev who cares about control and stacking order to throw my hands in the air and say “Fuck it! z-index to the fucking moon!”
Fffffffffffffffffu! I hate third party scripts marketing love to add to GTM. Loading chat widgets that have their own z-index (set to 6000000 no less!) which completely obscures our contact and demo app buttons. Then marketing will come back to me and complain until I fix it - with a higher z-index, FFS! #webdev
Getting used to using this all the time. #WebDev #Development
#Development #Tools
Feed Canary · Monitor your web feed and get notified if it breaks https://ilo.im/165hvc
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#Business #Monitoring #Notification #WebFeeds #RSS #JSON #Validation #WebDev #Frontend #Backend
#Business #Experiences
Their accessibility statement was a lie · “I wasn’t going to complain to customer service…” https://ilo.im/165m95
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#Accessibility #WCAG #ScreenReader #Legislation #Website #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend
I built my website using @enhance_dev a couple years ago but I feel like I should use a more popular #IaC framework for deploying to #AWS like #CDK, #SAM, #Terraform or just raw #CloudFormation.
The problem is, I'm spoiled; Enhance makes #serverless so easy. I find myself just reimplementing all it's features; file based routing, html templates, session management, etc.
I'm at the point where I'll use git for any non-trivial project, even if I'm not planning on sharing it. It makes me a lot more confident about making changes to the project, because I know I can always revert to a previous commit. Plus, it can serve as a log of all the work I've done.
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