Paul’s Weblog is a personal, tech-adjacent blog mixing software engineering insights, weeknotes, developer tips, and thoughtful cultural commentary. Short, witty posts covering tools, events, and reflections from life in tech.
113 articles from this blog
A developer automates podcast episode folder creation in Google Drive using Google Apps Script, detailing the code and challenges.
A guide to migrating a Gulp 3 configuration to Gulp 4, covering API changes, error resolution, and modern ES6 syntax.
A guide to setting up Pi-hole, a network-wide ad blocker, on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, covering installation, configuration, and automation.
Analysis of adoption rates for robots.txt, humans.txt, and security.txt files across the top 25,000 websites, including methodology and results.
Explores a functional programming approach to generating Cartesian products in JavaScript using Array methods like reduce, map, and concat.
Explains a specific XSS vulnerability when embedding JSON data in <script> tags and provides the solution of escaping '<' characters.
A developer's 2019 learning goals, including Docker, Webpack, GraphQL, CSS Grid, Firebase, Service Workers, and Go.
A tutorial on creating a serverless HTTP endpoint using Webtask and Node.js to compile SCSS/Sass code into CSS on demand.
An introduction to Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), explaining its stack-based logic, history with HP calculators, and providing a JavaScript evaluator.
A guide to managing responsive design breakpoints in SCSS using Sass maps and custom mixins for cleaner, more maintainable CSS.
A developer's guide to automating image optimization, including compression, file naming, and directory structure for a static blog.
A technical guide on configuring a .af domain with Blot using Cloudflare, focusing on DNS setup and SSL certificate issues.
