Web Development

I tried making a Freelancer post, as I used their service once years ago and it was generally pleasant, but I was immediately bombarded with AI Applicants and an AI Recruiter grilling me for answers to its questions. Immediately deleted the post and the entire account.

Where do I go to get a quote for some work done by some actual human beings? I don't need AI, I don't want AI, if someone automate their quoting process then I'm out because I'm not gonna fuckin negotiate with the hallucinating vending machine.

EDIT: I attempted a post on UpWork.com and there is far less AI response than on Freelancer, but I've still declined all offers so far because they failed an important filter question. Still, I've been able to get quotes! FINALLY! Looks like my website could potentially be built for some number between $5,000 and $38,000. Very interesting. As some commenters have suggested, I'll check out some options in local cities, though I doubt I'll find much in my small studio's price range.

AI design tools are genuinely impressive. I'm not going to pretend otherwise, and this isn't a piece about protecting the profession. v0, Framer AI, Webflow AI, whatever launched in the last six months that I haven't used yet – they can produce something that passes for a real website faster than any human can open a new Figma file.

That's not the problem.

The problem is what gets generated alongside the layout. AI tools are excellent at visual pattern matching – they've ingested enough well-designed websites to know how a homepage should be structured. Hero section, value proposition, social proof, CTA. Correct. What they can't do is figure out what your value proposition actually is, who it's for, or why anyone should believe it. So they generate something that fits the pattern. It sounds like a website. It has all the right components in all the right places.

Im investigating an idea i had about JSX for webcomponents after some experience with Lit.

Lit is a nice lightweight UI framework, but i didnt like that it was using class-based components.

Vue has a nice approach but i prefer working with the syntax that React uses. I find it more intuitive for debugging and deterministic rendering. I wondered if with webcomponents, i could create a UI framework that didnt need to be transpiled.

• Read the docs
• Checkout the code
• Storybook demo

(My intentions with this framework is to get to a reasonable level of stability, to then replace React on some of my existing projects.)

IMPORTANT: Im not trying to push "yet another ui framework", this is an investigation to see what is possible. You should not use this framework in your own code. It is not production-ready. It is intended for myself on my own projects. This project is far from finished. I am sharing because it might be interesting for someone. Feel free to reach out for clarity if you have any questions.

I'm currently building a small website as my online portfolio and blog, with some fun stuff like making it explorable as a side-scroller "game" (I gaven't enabled that functionality yet), and as part of documenting the process, I'm trying to write short blog posts that cover some of the tools and decisions I'm making along the way.

This post is about how I decided to write the site's content using Markdown in order to write using Obsidian, and how I then turn that Markdown code into clean, modern HTML "on the fly".

Please note that the site itself is still very much a work in progress.

VoidZero is excited to announce that we are joining Cloudflare. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will remain open-source and MIT-licensed. Evan and the rest of the VoidZero team will continue to lead these projects, with Cloudflare fully committed to supporting our mission.

You can now import a file as a JavaScript string using the new text import attribute.

This feature is currently supported in Bun, Deno and Firefox Nightly.

Until fairly recently, there was no way to get an entire color scale live generated based on one color using vanilla CSS.

You could do something like it at build-time using SASS. Or you could do something like it “live” using JavaScript—but purely for demo/one-off purposes.

However, now that we have real CSS functions calculating color math in real-time, we have the ability set a single color in a stylesheet—and everything else will come along for the ride!

I recently decided to ditch my ancient WordPress portfolio and build a new site from scratch.

Because I wanted to show off a little bit, I decided I wanted to make it into a 2D side-scroller using Little.js. The issue was figuring out how I could keep the site accessible.

I just wrote the first blog post in a series on how I am making that very site.
The site is still a work in progress; but I felt this could interest people here. And it gives me a chance to test out the blog feature I just coded in.