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Posts related to web development topics, development tools, strategies, etc. This page lists all posts in the category, in reverse chronological order.

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  • Automated Public Cert to Arduino Header Conversion

    Posted Monday, January 20, 2025 at 07:59 PM  in ESP32, Internet of Things (IoT), Web Development

    AI Generated   I was working on a project using an M5Stack device to interact with a Google Firebase Function, but I ran into an issue with the SSL requirement. After exploring different options, I found that ESP32 devices could send HTTPS requests, but required the server's public cert embedded in the code. To simplify this process, I created a web app called Cert2Arduino that automates the conversion of public certificates into Arduino-compatible code.

  • Refactored Goodreads Page Adjuster App

    Posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:32 PM  in Web Development

    AI Generated   I recently revamped my web app that helps accurately calculate reading progress in Goodreads. The app now looks much better thanks to MVP.css, and I upgraded it to React 19 while removing Bootstrap. The new design is cleaner and more visually appealing, making it easier to use.

  • Validating Links On This Site

    Posted Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 10:47 AM  in Web Development

    When I migrated this site from Joomla! to Eleventy, one of the things I didn't spend much time on was validating the links in the site (both internal and external links). I recently decided to spend some time to check all of the links in the site and ended up spending time building a utility that automated the process for me.

  • Yet Another Link Checker Utility

    Posted Friday, November 15, 2024 at 06:03 PM  in Web Development

    Describes a node.js-based utility I created and published to validate web links in a web site or page.

  • Testing a Bunny.Net CDN

    Posted Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 09:25 PM  in Miscellaneous, Web Development

    As I worked through the process of publishing a Windows app to the Windows Store, I found that I needed a CDN and this post describes how I addressed that requirement.

  • Leaked Credentials from Google Cloud Project

    Posted January 6, 2024  in Cloud Development, Eleventy, Web Development

    Describes an issue I had connecting Google Analytics to this site; Google Cloud Security complained mightily about access credentials I stored in the site's public repo.

  • GitHub JavaScript Module Used By Panel

    Posted May 15, 2023  in Web Development

    On a module's repository page, GitHub shows which other repositories use the module. Who knew?

  • Implementing Custom Pipes in Ionic

    Posted July 19, 2021  in Web Development

    Pipes are a really cool feature in Angular and Ionic and I had an opportunity to build one of my own and this post describes what I did and points you to the code.

  • Displaying Build Information in ReactJS

    Posted May 15, 2021  in Web Development

    I've been doing a lot of React development lately and I wanted the ability to display the app version number in the app. Now that I have the Ionic Build Info utility I described in the previous post, I copied that project and created a version of it that works for React as well.

  • Displaying Build Information in Ionic Applications

    Posted May 14, 2021  in Web Development

    I was building an Ionic app and I wanted to display the app version in the app without having to hard code it as a constant in the app. Recognizing that the app's `package.json` file contained the app version and I could update it when I needed outside of the app, I built a little utility that writes a data file to the ionic project with build information that can be displayed anywhere in the app.

  • PWA Webinar This Month

    Posted July 31, 2020  in Web Development

    To help promote my latest book and to make a little money, I agreed to deliver an O'Reilly webinar on Progressive Web Apps. This post provides details about the event.

  • Discarding Data Object Edits in Ionic

    Posted June 6, 2020  in Web Development

    When editing an object in an Ionic application, the framework automatically saves your changes to the object even though the user may have cancelled the edit page. In this post, I describe an approach I discovered that allows me to discard those changes when the user closes the edit page without saving.

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