An awesome blog post about how CORS works and how it impacts request security between the frontend and backend. I love the worked examples of CORS vs CSRF, an awesome resource for juniors and a lovely refresher for more senior folk.

I've been looking to touch up on latest best practice for PHP and was lucky enough to stumble upon this. From code style and security, to dependency management and deployment: this site has it all, completely for free!

In the LLM era of SWE, development often moves at breakneck speeds at cost of quality, reliability and understanding. This post makes a case for learning and understanding difficult tasks and skills: to be the master- not the slave of our technologies. It reminds us to take joy in the learning process!

Styling selects is a huge annoyance. Making them look nice usually requires a weighty external JavaScript library and poorer accessibility. Thankfully, CSS now supports selectors for the picker and its contents! Now to wait for universal browser support....