TJ Fogarty

2024 Analytics

A look back over site performance during the year. Who was visiting, and what was popular?

My Site Turns Ten

Despite many migrations and a domain change, it persists

Journal

Kitten Update

Not a kitten anymore.

PHP Featured

Video: Home-cooked Feed Reader

Little walkthrough of my local feed reader and some thoughts

Tech Lead

The road from Senior

DNS Propagation

The weight of waiting.

Here we are again

I just keep moving

Journal

Got Married

Great days. Great rest required.

Regex

Tidy Up with Regex

Using regex to quickly tidy up all the areas in my site where I'm using a shortcode instead of markdown links.

CSS

Tailwind Is...

I don't get all this hate for Tailwind. It's not going anywhere, so it's probably time to move on.

HTML

Using the Least Amount of JavaScript

Applying minimal JavaScript by resorting to less than standard ways of doing things.

HTML

The Web Should Be Simple

We sure know how to overcomplicate things. Or maybe we don't understand the building blocks of what makes a website accessible.

HTML

Rediscovering the Joy in Coding

Going back to basics by putting aside the typical frameworks and making my own rules.

Journal

The Year Ahead

What's the plan for the year? Thinking about what I want to achieve.

HTML

Popover API

For many years, we had to do this manually or rely on third-party solutions. Now, though, it's a different world. In this post we'll take a quick look at how it works with a demo.

New Year, New Design

It's a brand new year full of the same old stuff, but hey look, a new design for the site!

JavaScript Featured

Scrollable Container Controls with React Hooks

Revisiting some old code to convert it to using hooks.

React Featured

Multi-Select Checkboxes with React Hooks

An old code demo revised to use React Hooks.

Journal

Lenore and the new routine

Lenore's routine and how it fits around the other two cats.

Featured

New Kitten

A new kitten joins the crew

JavaScript

Distant Sound

Small experiment with sound based on scroll distance.

Journal

Visiting Family & Friends

Visiting the family and their pets back home in Limerick.

Fixing MS Edge Battery Drain on M1 Mac

Edge was destroying the battery life on my Macbook Air M1

JavaScript

Vue Timeline

An infinite scroll timeline component written for Vue 3.

New Job

Interesting times when it comes to career progression. Back to React.