Unplanned Obsolescence

Why are so many government websites unusable for the constituents who need them most?

Of the three proposals in the Triptych Project, my multi-year odyssey to add a few small-but-powerful features to HTML, the one that generates the most questions is Button Actions.

Yesterday, the IRS announced the release of the project I’ve been engineering leading since this summer, its new Tax Withholding Estimator (TWE).

The project that inspired this post is a little silly—I am about to describe the mechanics of a children’s video game in great detail—but this particular problem is what finally made Prolog click for me, an epiphany I’ve been hunting for ever since reading

Unplanned Obsolescence is a blog is about writing maintainable, long-lasting software.

I went back to Bozeman!

When I advise people on how they should structure a web service, I always start from the same place: make a server that responds to HTTP requests with HTML text.

Naming things properly is very hard to do, so, as programmers, we come up with little rules to help us.

A central concept to HTML, and hypertext theory more generally, is something called Representational State Transfer, a.k.a.

My UtahJS talk, “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”, was put online this week!

It’s been two years since I wrote my first production webservice with htmx.

A couple months ago I was sitting next to Ivy Wong and I saw them working on a dropdown menu so cute that I immediately asked how they did it.

While I’m not going to settle the Single-Page Web Application (SPA) debate in a blog post, there is one claim about SPAs that routinely goes unchallenged, and it drives me nuts: that users prefer them because of the “modern,” responsive feel.

This past weekend, I gave a talk entitled “The Life & Death of htmx” at Big Sky Dev Con.

The Classic Hello World Here’s how you make a webpage that says “Hello World” in PHP: Hello World Name that file index.php and you’re set.

The comment I received most frequently on “Behavior Belongs in the HTML” was: “don’t Web Components solve this?”

When you click the button below, it’s going to show you a little message.