Tips for Giving Remote Presentations

Advice from experienced presenters.

Using Pipedream to proxy other APIs

A simple way to hide an API key from client-side JavaScript.

Using Google Analytics 4 for blog stats

Experiences with using the GA 4 API for your own reports.

Building a web-based badge scanner

The web app can read QR codes and get contacts in vCard format.

Automatically posting to Mastodon and Twitter on new RSS items

Pipedream can help you to tweet and toot using a newsfeed.

Progressively enhancing a table with a web component

Let’s build a web component that enriches a regular HTML table.

“I just hate it when a web page decides to not let me select text because it somehow knew better and it’s never, ever right about it.”

“If you read a blog post/article/etc. and it’s helpful, the minute it takes to find contact info for the author and send one word of thanks means a lot to them.”

Building a QR coder web component

How to offer a QR code for a webpage’s current URL.

Using Generative AI to classify an image

An experiment to automate a simple image analysis.

submit() versus requestSubmit()

Submitting forms without or with validation.