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From Flat to “wow” – Pop, Pomp & Pizzazz in Product Photography Ditch the light-box and go to strobes. Light tents flatten speculars and wash out micro-contrast—exactly why metals, glass and anything having shiny appearance are made to look dull when photographed in non-specular lighting. You want it Big and Hot (but controlled) — big, … Read more
ORM Explosion due to One-For-All (Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony, etc) Framework It’s 2025 and down through the decades, and technologies, this same awfulness keeps happening … it’s like a fatal flaw of Doing Things The Wrong Way … and an harbinger against relying deeply upon Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony and similar ilk. Get far enough along and … Read more
Minimum Good Browser Javascript List 2025 Current modern browsers have a standard of performance for javascript — a working baseline. What is the oldest browser that still upholds today’s working essence without losing or breaking or failing too much? Great question. If by “today’s working essence” you mean: ES2015+ syntax, native ES modules (<script type=”module”>), … Read more
Javascript from Joke to Joy to Juggernaut in 30 Years TL;DR – Standards + easy sharing. Here’s the short version of how JavaScript went from “toy” to a first-class platform, and who/what made it happen. 1995–2004: A scrappy beginning → standards 2008–2012: The engine arms race (speed made JS serious) 2009–2015: The language grows up … Read more
Benefits of HTTP/3 Protocol Benefits of HTTP/3 over HTTP/2 — When will you notice H3 the most?
Clean Fast Basic Webfonts – Verdana, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif Short version: there isn’t one “standard” browser font. Browsers map the generic families (serif, sans-serif, monospace) to OS-specific defaults. Typical defaults (factory settings) (Users and distro packages can change these, but that’s the common baseline.) Verdana vs generic sans-serif “Times sans” vs “just sans” Practical … Read more
Targeted Keywords as Domain Names No SEO upside: Buying lots of keyword domains and pointing each at a subsection of your main site doesn’t help rankings; at best it’s neutral, and at worst it looks like a “doorway” setup and can hurt you. Use one canonical domain, build out topic pages in subfolders, and 301-redirect … Read more
Dependency Injection in Modern and Legacy PHP A decade or two on, Tom Butler’s (Tom B Zombie) DICE remains the smallest, quickest, easiest and arguably fastest amongst all small to mid to large projects — reportedly compilation of Symfony, PHP-DI or others finally bests DICE, but projects ‘huge enough’ to matter are uncommon. Here’s the … Read more
Lenny Interviews Nick Hurley VP of ChatGPT Right tech, right time. You won’t know what to polish until you ship. Over 700 million active weekly users (10% of humanity). Billions in income. First major podcast interview. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-chatgpt-nick-turley In ChatGPT, the “GPT” stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. So “ChatGPT” basically means: a chat system built on … Read more
What caused the incredible slow-down of NetSuite that had previously run at Barely Tolerable Speed (ie, 5 seconds per page load) Of course nothing else ‘on our end’ had changed. The dataset size was not even into the hundreds-of-thousands of rows. Business operation 1-10 employees. Not all workloads belong in a giant datacenter 1,000 miles … Read more