I recently finished what I thought would be a quick project to pass a weekend and turned out to be a deeper rabbit hole than expected. Most of the unexpected pain points came from handling Unicode and UTF-8, and the main takeaway for me was a clearer understanding of what they are and how they work.
Because life is too short to spam calls to SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations().
A short rant on the importance of spending a bit of time writing good error messages to save our users a lot of time.
The year is 2024. We have language models that can code, shitty AI-generated content everywhere, and still no flying cars. But a problem that should be trivial to solve is surprisingly annoying: why is there no easy way to link the contents of an <svg> tag?
Or, a proposal on how to structure JS code for simple web apps.
