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Original rewrites on React, Node.js, TypeScript and AI — practical notes from the same engineering practice behind our operator software. Article bodies are in English.
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HTML is markup, not a programming language — use it like one
Treat HTML as structure for navigation, SEO, accessibility, and render performance, and replace div soup with semantic elements the browser and crawlers can understand.
730 wordsRead articleFive link rel hints that speed First Contentful Paint
Use preconnect, preload, dns-prefetch, prefetch, and modulepreload in the document head to warm connections and cut resource waterfalls without rewriting the app.
786 wordsRead articleTyped CSS attr(): Feeding HTML Attribute Values Straight Into Styles
Learn how typed CSS attr() turns data attributes into lengths, colours and times, how its fallbacks fail, why url() is blocked, and how to ship it safely today.
4056 wordsRead articleAn Animated Thumbs-Up Feedback Button Without Any Animation Library
Build a thumbs-up and thumbs-down feedback widget with a keyframe pop animation, active states and a fetch call, using only HTML, CSS and a few lines of JavaScript.
1559 wordsRead articleWho Should Own UI Behavior? Choosing Between HTML, CSS and JavaScript
A framework for deciding when native HTML and CSS features like dialog, popover, :has() and container queries should replace JavaScript, and when they should not.
3416 wordsRead articleStructure, Style, Behavior: How HTML, CSS and JavaScript Divide the Work
A beginner-friendly map of what HTML, CSS and JavaScript each own on a web page, how they cooperate, and which common mistakes blur the lines between them.
1459 wordsRead articleFrom Div Soup to Meaningful Markup: A Practical Semantic HTML Guide
Learn why generic divs break accessibility, crawling and maintainability, which semantic elements to use instead, and how to refactor a real card component.
3565 wordsRead articleJSX Is Not HTML: The Real Trade-offs Behind Component Markup
Understand what you give up when markup becomes JSX, from tooling and parsing to forms, accessibility and portability, and the patterns that win most of it back.
3076 wordsRead articleSix Native HTML Features That Replace Common JS UI libraries
Learn how popover, exclusive details, dialog, Declarative Shadow DOM, fetchpriority and datalist replace custom JavaScript, plus the limits each one still has.
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