I really enjoy creating JavaScript particle emitters and this example is a particularly nice one.
I recently added a dark mode to my website. This post details how I achieved this by copying the existing light scheme's CSS and inverting the colour values.
I thought it would be trivial to add a custom search engine to Firefox. To be fair, it is fairly trivial, but not quite as easy as navigating to the correct Firefox settings page and adding a new entry. Instead, I found the process to be somewhat hidden and less obvious.
A blog post detailing an issue where a Puppeteer screenshot script, triggered through a PHP application using CodeIgniter, stopped working due to Chromium not starting under the Apache www-data user on Debian.
I've been reading a lot of good things about the Vivaldi web browser of late, so I thought I would give it a try. These are my notes on what I did to personalise Vivaldi.
If anyone is in any doubt as to whether you need to compile any software from source in order to use desktop Linux, you really don't.
A post where I try to clarify my current stance on LLM/AI. I share my concerns about data privacy, energy usage and Big Tech influence.
Some thoughts about Mozilla's decision to build AI features into the Firefox web browser.
Last week I switched the operating system on my daily driver (Lenovo ThinkPad T14s) from Debian 12 to Fedora 40. In this post I write a little about why I switched and how the switch went.
I believe that it's really important to support and use Firefox. Not only do I think that Mozilla understand/support user's privacy more than Google, but I also think it's important for the health of the web that more than one option exists when it comes to rendering engines. Also, it's a really good web browser.
I've recently decided to simplify my life by moving away from using multiple computers to using a single laptop. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of using a single computer?
Installed Oh My SVG from Flathub. Does a good job at cleaning SVG files for embedding in HTML.
TIL Vivaldi for iOS has configurable content blocking that allows you to import and use your own block lists. Nifty.
Giving Vivaldi a try on iOS. The built in ad blocker is nice. Settings synced from desktop, including custom search engines, which is also nice. I can’t seem to set a custom new tab page, but the customisable start page is ok.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but it is far easier to set a custom new tab page and create a custom search engine in Firefox on iOS than it is in Firefox on my Linux desktop. This does not seem right.
I’ve had a really great experience at OggCamp this weekend. Lots of fantastic talks and people. It’s been good to catch-up with some old friends, and make some new ones. Big thanks to the sponsors, organisers and crew.
Next OggCamp session, “Fighting Ens**ttification with ActivityPub”.
Next OggCamp session, “TuxJam 🎤 live recording”.
Next OggCamp session, “People First, Pixels Second - Rethinking Digital Inclusivity”.
OggCamp day 2, first session, “Wrestling a Giant C++ desktop app into your browser”.
Next OggCamp session, “Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificate on Hacker Public Radio”.
An HTML Email Template with Basic Typography and Dark/Light Modes – Frontend Masters Boost 
Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Using RSS to follow the stuff that matters to you will have an immediate, profoundly beneficial impact on your own digital life
Window: cancelAnimationFrame() method - Web APIs | MDN 
GitHub - HimbeersaftLP/ios-safari-remote-debug-kit: Remotely debugging iOS Safari on Windows and Linux 
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS • Josh W. Comeau Flexbox is a remarkably powerful layout mode. When we truly understand how it works, we can build dynamic layouts that respond automatically, rearranging themselves as-needed.
How to write filters – Adblock Plus This guide is designed to help you write and maintain your own Adblock Plus filters. Creating your own filters gives you more control over the things you want to see and don’t want to see on the websites that you visit, including ads, images, requests, and scripts.
You're overcomplicating production | ParaVocê Dev Blog When I started up a new project for the first time in 10 years, I realized just how simple it all could have been. Even with millions of customers and 40 employees, we could have easily run on a single VM using Go and SQLite. We could have 10x'd with that same strategy.
Terence Eden / ActivityPub-Single-PHP-File · GitLab This is a single PHP file - and an .htaccess file - which acts as an extremely basic ActivityPub server.
OWASP Top Ten | OWASP Foundation The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.
Digitalwave ModSecurity Repository This is a repository for different Linux distributions, currently for Debian and Ubuntu. The repository contains the necessary packages in pre-compiled binary (and source) format for a WAF (Web Application Firewall).
I like tag all content on my site. See below for my ever-growing list of tags.
My name is Philip Newborough and I’m a full stack web developer living and working in Lincoln, England. This website (philipnewborough.co.uk) serves as my personal homepage. When I’m not working with tech, I love to ride bicycles with my wife and friends.