Blog

My thoughts about the games I played in 2024. Contains thoughts about 28 games, over 2 per month. Yeah, I'm a gamer.

A new design era: Editorial style. Two color design returns, but I'm aiming for something more elegant than retro. I've also started working on my long awaited shrines! Contains 17 screenshots.

A memorial post about Curry, our beloved cat of the last 12 years.

I took some free time to improve the desktop navigation on my website, and better organize information and links. Enjoy the screenshots.

After starting Firefox and VS Code themes, I realized my website didn't have enough green. I massively improved dark mode, and added more green everywhere. Enjoy the screenshots.

Exploring the process behind my fresh new green, including a design I discarded and the inspiration for my new style.

A memorial post about Cory, one of my closest friends.

After a year of chronic pain, I wish I had more relief. But I am making progress. I also discovered I don't even use my teeth and tongue correctly, lol.

I updated my home page and added more decoration to the site. I want it to be easier to browse and more fun looking.

It's strangely difficult to make a “spoilers” element without JS, and even harder to do it with support for all mobile operating systems and screen readers.

My thoughts on why expression statements can be a source of bugs—especially in async code—and a proposal for reviving JavaScript's nearly unused void operator.

PP Talisman from Pangram Pangram Foundry is my new heading font—or “cool font” as I'm calling it in the code. But I'm trying not to overuse it!

I spent an entire weekend migrating my Eleventy site to Astro—and then back to Eleventy! A reflection on using the right tool for the job, when many options are viable.

Taking inspiration from Claymorphism, I made an experimental version of my site with a puffy 3D look.

With cohost.org going away, I decide to lean even harder towards working on my personal website. I've created a new theme, with a softer, more playful aesthetic than ever before. I've also created many new sections on my website.

A brief reflection on the Legend of Zelda and the popularity of open world video games.

See how to adapt Python's context managers for use in JavaScript. Break free from clunky try...finally blocks with this one weird trick.

A nice collection of buttons you'll want to push over and over again. These 3D buttons call back to a time of shiny silver plastic and tactile experiences.

The Toybox is a new section of my site for web toys, jokes, and experiments.

How to make a theme selector for your website, and why you might want to have more than one theme.

I made a new site button GIF for folks who want to link to my website.

An image gallery and reflection of 10 years of themes I've made for wavebeem.com

Exploring a small but mighty function that supercharges the JS Array sort method to rival Lodash's orderBy

Examples of how to query shadow DOM, and when you actually don't want to.

Turns the lights off and navigate the page using a flashlight.

I made a toy flashlight for the web. It simulates darkening the web page and following the cursor. It looks somewhat convincingly like a flashlight. Enjoy!

The default Proxy implementation doesn't work well with private properties, but we can fix this! I also explore other approaches to private data in JS.

Thoughts on developing with web components from scratch; no UI libraries. This covers custom elements and very basic use of the <template> element. Shadow DOM is mentioned but not used.

Pure CSS nostalgia.

Press to reveal the punchline.

A discussion of why people hate JS, Electron, and the web. Also a plea about how excessive negativity hurts you and those around you.

The web has been an app platform for most of its life. I discuss the history of the web and my definition of "app".

無駄 無駄 無駄 無駄 (MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA)

88×31 GIFs were all the rage back on Geocities; I decided to finally make one for my own site.

My favorite IBS-friendly dip to make at home.

Why useState is so hard to use correctly, and what we can do about it.

Detailed instructions on how to make fluffy biscuits at home.

My successes and failures in trying to de-emphasize Google's presence in my life.

How to make delicious crispy tofu at home.

A disciplined approach to state management and domain modeling for JavaScript and TypeScript. Also known as algebraic data types / discriminated unions.

Building Your own keyboard with free software.

Thinking beyond pre-built gear, this guide will help prepare you to build your own keyboard.

An introduction to the exciting world of mechanical keyboards.

You'll be writing better bash code after following these 7 tips.

A comparison and overview of generators, iterators, and iterables in JS.

A quick overview on using React without JSX or any build tools.

How to use promises effectively (written before async/await existed)

How to make code generation for a compiler.

How to make a programming language from scratch in JS.

An exploration of Babel's caveats.

How JS's 'this' and 'new' work, and how to avoid issues with them.

An introduction to Squiggle, a compile-to-JS programming language I made.