Alistair Shepherd articles - 18 total
Selling a small front-end web project — what I learned
In 2017, I made a small web app for interacting with the Spotify API — mostly to learn some new...
Proxying an Image CDN with Cloudflare workers
This post appeared on my blog back in July, but am adding here so you nice folks on dev.to can see...
JS library compilation to browser, esm and cjs using esbuild
This post appeared on my blog back in July, but am adding here so you nice folks on dev.to can see...
Simple, fast build tooling with live reload for a non-framework website
This post appeared on my blog back in July, but am adding here so you nice folks on dev.to can see...
Interop Priority Game 2024
The other day Brian Kardell asked about Interop project prioritisation on his blog and mastodon. As...
Simple, cheap GeoIP API using Netlify Edge functions
Need to look up a users' approximate location based on their IP address? Don't want to opt for a...
Simple, cheap GeoIP API using Vercel Edge functions
Need to look up a users' approximate location based on their IP address? Don't want to opt for a...
Searching for a Mastodon app for Android
I've been using the Fediverse via Mastodon since October 2022, as a pretty much complete replacement...
GrapheneOS as my daily-driver mobile OS
In November 2022 I dropped my previous phone. Actually 'drop' maybe isn't accurate, it was more of a...
SVG generative mountain ridge dividers
This is another post about the build of this website. Check out the other posts in the my site tag on...
Managing tracking consent with Cead Consent
An issue many businesses and sites will have to deal with is cookie and tracking consent on their...
Personal site stack for alistairshepherd.uk
I've had a very chaotic few months at the end of 2021, with work, moving house and my first steps...
Front End Web Development Feeds and Newsletters
The world of Web Development is exciting and moves fast - particularly front end development in the...
Conditionally loading a native image lazyload polyfill/library
My previous blogpost was about how to load a :focus-visible polyfill only if the requesting browser...
Conditionally loading a polyfill for :focus-visible
The future of focus is :focus-visible! Although browser support is decent, Safari is still working on...
SVG Landscape with live colour theming - new site part 2
As promised, now we're going to dig into the colour-changing effects of my new website. If you haven'...
Making a Parallax SVG Landscape - new site part 1
I've finally finished my new website, and I am really happy with it. I started the site in July 2020...
Fixes for Koken problems in 2020
Koken was a self-hosted Content Management System built for photographers, offering off-the-shelf fea...