A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a web developer who wanted a silly animation for his custom 404 error page.
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?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a web developer who wanted a silly animation for his custom 404 error page. philipnewborough.co.uk/demos/canvas...
I've been playing around with converting a website's database from MariaDB to SQLite. SQLite is consistently 100 - 200ms faster when performing search queries on a table with ~100,000 rows using DataTables and PHP. There doesn't appear to be any noticeable speed difference querying individual rows. Also, I'm not sure if I'm being a bit heavy handed with it, but I've managed to corrupt the SQLite db numerous times, which is concerning.
Roughly 2 weeks ago, I changed my GNOME desktop to use Dark Style so that I could test some prefers-color-scheme CSS styles. I've not changed it back since.
Converting a website's back-end to use SQLite, it's currently using MariaDB. I'm interested to see if there will be any performance improvements. The largest table has ~250k rows, so it's not big data, but it's also not insignificant.
Just upgraded to Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.1) from 29.0.8. The upgrade was super quick and everything seems to working just fine.
I see a lot more negative comments about AI than positive in my social feeds. I obviously choose my friends wisely.
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.
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted | Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an interactive online music box that I had built and hosted at musicboxfun.com. The new name was shorter and more quirky. I felt lucky to have grabbed it.
Unfortunately, musicbox.fun had a history. Before I bought it, the domain was used to host pirated music.
A Desktop for All – Adrian's blog TL;DR: I would like to turn GNOME OS, GNOME’s home-grown distro for testing and development of the GNOME Desktop, into a daily-drivable general purpose OS.
Fighting for a better web We’re not working at Vivaldi, we’re fighting. Fighting for a better web than we have now.
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.
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.