Web Dev

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

JavaScript's Temporal API kills Date and date-fns for good

The Temporal API replaces buggy JavaScript Date with immutable, timezone-aware types. The core types, DST-safe arithmetic, and migration paths.

Neon gives every pull request its own Postgres copy

Neon branches isolate a full Postgres instance per PR in one second via copy-on-write. Disposable like Git. No shared staging, no data collisions.

Build a serverless API on SQLite with Cloudflare D1

Cloudflare D1 makes SQLite serverless at the edge. Covers Wrangler setup, building a CRUD REST API in a Worker, and the real 2026 free-tier limits.

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.