v6.4.0 & v6.4.1 have a potential remote code execution vulnerability, when combined with other plugins. A Remote Code Execution vulnerability that is not directly exploitable in core, however the security team feels that there is a potential for high severity when combined with some plugins, especially in

We all know accessibility is important, but what is it? It's the practice of making web sites and applications usable by people with disabilities. It can be easily overlooked when developing, but that's the best and easiest time to implement accessibility features. Accessibility helps people with visual, hearing, mobility, and

This weekend I had a developer contact to see if my crawler for Route285.com respected the crawl-delay directive in robots.txt. It does. I thought this was a cool bit of HTTP working well. My crawler sets it's User Agent header, so the site owner knew who to reach

HTML & CSS are the basics of web development. Going down memory lane... this post covers weird HTML hacks. I remember a number of these and some are still needed for HTML emails! On the other side, You don't need JavaScript for that, covers new tags and CSS that will handle

Turbo is part of the Hotwire system from the developers of Ruby on Rails. It's not reliant on Rails and will work with other backend frameworks. It does a lot and using Rails definitely helps get the most of out it. Turbo Drive came from the previous Turbolinks iteration. It

HTMX, like it's name implies, is focused on enhancing HTML. It allows HTML attributes to make AJAX requests and update the HTML on the page with the response. It's not tied to any server side framework making it usable with any of them. Most of the functionality is designed to

The Phoenix LiveView approach is tightly coupled to Elixir, which makes sense given some of the unique properties that Phoenix, Elixir, and the Erlang VM provide. Communication is all done via web sockets. The system has built in presence and PubSub capabilities, which enables a lot of cool applications. LiveView

There is a new(-ish) approach to developing interactive web applications, that are not single page applications. The main idea is that HTML is rendered on the server and sent to the browser, either by a HTTP response or web socket. The client has a little bit of JavaScript that

There are #nocode ways to build a website. There are self-hosted and SaaS options. The self-hosted solutions will usually have a SaaS option. SaaS options include SquareSpace, Webflow, and WIX. These are very easy to sign up and get started. No hosting or anything else to worry about. These are