Duncan McDougall | Web Developer

Pull requests: love them or hate them, they’re an essential part of collaborative development.

Use npm outdate and npm update to check for and update to newer versions of your installed node modules using npm's built-in commands. npm outdated Current is what you have installed Wanted is the latest version that satisfies the semver range in package.…

I recently found out about Elasticlunr, a lightweight, full-text search engine built in JavaScript.

Sitemaps are an underrated tool for helping search engines crawl into every corner of your website.

This week's train project has been to convert this site from Gatsby to Eleventy (11ty).

The prefers-reduced-motion media feature is used to detect if the user has requested that the system minimizes the amount of animation or motion on the page.

The #1 question in the world right now.

Probably the quickest, leanest way to get to work on a fresh Umbraco site is with VSCode and IIS Express.

The following is a my work setup as of August 2024. 🖋️ Editor Visual Studio Code with a giant pile of extensions.

React Suspense allows you to easily add code-splitting into your application by lazy loading certain components, replacing them with something else until they've download.

I installed the new Windows Terminal (Preview) from the Microsoft Store over the weekend.

prefers-color-scheme is a new-ish CSS media query that lets developers define styles tailored to a visitor's color scheme system setting.

Now that the decade is coming to a close and "top x of the decade" lists are popping up everywhere, I thought I'd add to the pile with my favourite movies of the last 10 years.

When it's a package that I'll use infrequently, such as create-react-app, I'll use npx.

One feature of dotLESS I find incredibly useful but appears to be a hidden feature is debug=”true”.

Opening up Google Analytics you are presented with a bunch of stats about your site’s traffic.

I recently had an issue with one of my Umbraco sites where I just couldn't log in to the dashboard on my development machine.

I was recently tasked with finding a lightbox plugin for high traffic e-commerce site I was building from scratch.

The following code works in web browsers but returns "Invalid Date" on iOS 5.

When building an iPhone app using PhoneGap by default when you pull down the view on the device or simulator you can for some reason pull down the entire app before it bounces back into position.

Here’s a spot of code for mapping two classes in Fluent NHibernate with a many-to-many relation.

If you’ve used tools like YSlow or WebPageTest you may have noticed that one of the suggestions is to turn off ETags.

In my last post I referenced Sean Power's findings that as much as 37-49% of visitors who experience performance issues will either abandon the site or switch to a competitor.

Update: Deferred downloading of print stylesheets is coming to a future release of WebKit.