Fabian @fabian@floss.social

I'm usually pretty pragmatic and not so much for cutesy names when it comes to coding, but I still like our tiny module that cares about cleaning the (HTML) body of scraped websites, called `shampoo` 😆

#webdev #programming #python

In Firefox’ developer tools, network tab, why are the response headers listed *before* the request headers? Because you are usually more interested in the server response? From a flow/timeline perspective, listing the request first, would make more sense, no?

#webdev #firefox

🔖 Adding comments to your static blog with #Mastodon
https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/
#hugo #webdev #fediverse #staticsitegenerator

🔖 “Add annotations, hereso unto for known as "Biscuits", to the end of the line of closing #HTML tags. Such Biscuits could include ids and/or class names. Make <div> soup digestible!”

https://open-vsx.org/extension/CodeBiscuits/html-biscuits

#webdev #code #vscode #vscodium #FLOSS

Another release of a #tool that I use on a day-to-day basis. Insomnia, the #opensource Postman alternative. https://insomnia.rest/changelog/7.1.0/ #linux #freesoftware #http #graphql #webdev

Interesting, #Firefox 73 includes a #CBOR decoder: “WAMP-formatted WebSocket messages (JSON, MsgPack and CBOR) are now nicely decoded for inspection in the Network panel.” https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0/releasenotes/
#webdev

🔖 HTTPX is a fully featured HTTP client for #Python 3, which provides sync and async APIs, and support for both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 — and breaks with some of #requests (minor) quirks (https://www.python-httpx.org/compatibility/)

https://www.python-httpx.org/
#httpx #webdev

I know, separation of concerns etc., but I replaced #Django Templates with the much more flexible Jinja2 again. Good that these are (almost) first-class citizen in Django nowadays. #webdev #python 🐍

Recommended: Insomnia REST/#GraphQL Client, a #freesoftware / #opensource Postman alternative, just got an update
https://insomnia.rest/
#webdev #programming #api #linux #mac #windows

🔖 The New #Microsoft #Edge Sometimes Impersonates Other Browsers [think dynamic user-agent]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-new-microsoft-edge-sometimes-impersonates-other-browsers/
#webdev #Chrome #Firefox

For a new front-end “app-like” #webdev project, #TypeScript is now the obvious and best choice, correct? Or #JavaScript? #js #coffee…nah

How Zoom's web client avoids using #WebRTC - webrtcHacks
https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/

Counterpoint: WebRTC vs. Zoom – A Simple Congestion Test https://jitsi.org/news/a-simple-congestion-test-for-zoom/

#webdev #video #jitsi #wasm #webassembly
via http://simonwillison.net/2019/Apr/18/zoom-wasm/

🔖 Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/fluent-1-0-a-localization-system-for-natural-sounding-translations/
#mozilla #i18n #l10n #webdev #python #rust #javascript

🔖 All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS | Clagnut by Richard Rutter http://clagnut.com/blog/2395 #css #webdev #typography