Notes
Off-the-cuff thoughts, notes, and items of interest; these have less time dedicated to them than Articles and sometimes will lead to Articles later on.
Timeline
VueJS and Progressive Enhancement
Using VueJS to replace existing functional HTML with an enhanced Vue component, only when JS is available... is a lot easier than I realised.
Why I probably won't use Resource Hints' pre-fetch and pre-load directives
The biggest trend and problem of the last few years is ever bigger web pages wasting ever more bandwidth. And we're given tools to load more crap based on a guess as to what the user might want to do next?
HTTP2 for front-end web developers
HTTP2 will mean a change in how we should build websites. The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world.
Fixing file-upload hangs with nginx and Craft
A quick tip on how to fix things if your asset uploads in Craft seem to just hang.
The 2015 edition of mattwilcox.net
It's taken almost three years to finally get around to, but at long last this website is sporting a design and running on a CMS I actually like.
Portable Development Environments
Why is it still so hard to set up a portable development environment?
Upcoming features for Web Developers
We have some new technologies coming up which are going to have a big impact on what we do and how we do it.
The insecurity of security questions
Most security questions are at best obstructive, at worst terribly insecure.
On Plugins
Why I don't trust applications that laregly subsist on their plugins.
The future of mark-up?
With new features like Web Components and Element Queries, what will the mark-up of the future look like?
Vagrant, Puppet, Docker?
What are these and why should I care?
Optimising HTML and CSS
What do we mean when we talk about optimising HTML and CSS?
A Fresh Start
Retiring my old website (circa 2002-2012) late last year has given me time to think about the changing uses for my personal corner of the world wide web.