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Tobias Fedder

@tfedder.de

photography hobbyist and web dev always learning about the web blogging on https://tfedder.de/blog/

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It ist gut advice, ja.

01.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now that you mention it, it seems very obvious. Oops.

27.02.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Caddy’s wasteful partial serving βΈΊ tfedder.de Updating Caddy to the newest stable release fixed an issue with caching my precompressed files.

Today my website got a teeny-tiny bit better. Once again, all I did was wait and then update something.

tfedder.de/blog/wastefu...

23.02.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"radicalized"? How is that an extreme take?

19.02.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I leave many such pages without knowing what they meant to convey.

18.02.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Last month, when I read your post, I was confused at first, because everything seemed fine. Then I realised that I was still blocking your site's JS.
So many other (almost blank) pages on other sites are certainly more explicit about my wrong preferences.

18.02.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Client-side validation at its best!

13.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

into a logic by–passing binary context window, amirite?

12.02.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Overall great advice, but I would prefer a text file over an OpenDocument odt.
And please never ever send a Microslop Word docx without asking for consent first.

12.02.2026 11:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like a refurbished ThinkPad, given the budget, with Linux Mint.
Unless Word/Excel is meant literally, for heavy use of Microslops proprietary formats, good luck then.

11.02.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can confirm. Still not making it.

11.02.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

Do you really NEED iOS users having a great experience on your site?
Most of them made a choice to use that ecosystem, right?
It is, effectively, what they wanted.

11.02.2026 11:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDisabled people can just contact us and we’ll tell them what accommodations are available!”

Don’t do this. Because EVERYONE does this. It’s utterly exhausting.

Put all your accessibility info online. Keep it updated.

Stop making disabled people use extra time and energy to participate.

09.02.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Webspace Invaders Β· Matthias Ott There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...

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09.02.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 7

You are not powerless. You are not alone. Groups aggregate power. Be together.

05.02.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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The open source design stack Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of...

Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you.

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05.02.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7

Yes andβ€Šβ€”β€Šwherever it came fromβ€Šβ€”β€ŠI’dβ€ŠΒ like to change the viewbox in CSS too.

05.02.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A declarative way to repeat nodes in shadow dom surrounding each slotted light dom node.

04.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

3 and 3 in one browser
2 and 7 in the other browser

Fine with me.

04.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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popover & :focus ...

Just on my machines (Windows and Linux), or is there something weird going on with tabbing backwards through modeless dialogs in Firefox in general? Backwards the focus is trapped as if it were modal.

codepen.io/tfedder-de/pen/XJKEMLv

04.02.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could it be that your website is too interesting? Like, it's a you problem. No issues with traffic surges on my site whatsoever.

01.02.2026 11:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I forgot that dialog .show() is just position:absolute and without top layer. Okay, so <dialog popover> is the way to go for modeless dialogs which definitely should exist.

31.01.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely not less confused now. πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

So dialog showModal for modal dialogs; of course, for the inertness. Agreed. Easy.
But non-modal dialogs shouldn't exist, except maybe, but then use <dialog popover> because popover is better supported than Invoker Commands and closedby=any.
Yes? Anything else?

31.01.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who can’t figure out when to use popover vs non-modal dialog, I am asking:
Why shouldn’t non-modal dialogs exist?

31.01.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! You are absolutely right. But…

as someone who uses a secondary 1080Γ—1920 monitor, I can tell you: people struggle with horizontal media queries as it is. If they actually applied vertical ones, it would only get worse.

30.01.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. Everybody can have money. Who cares? Capital on the other hand should be owned by all workers and only workers.
#Merit

30.01.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which is based on surveillance capitalism btw

28.01.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Considering the share of users it is a duopoly already. And that is due to a moat, not because of competitiveness. Once that walled garden collapses, the Chromium monopoly will be just one antitrust ruling away from being seperated from the only entity that can profitably maintain it.

28.01.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. There is nothing to recommend. I am sticking with Firefox for now.
But what I am saying is: I am afraid the web is doomed.

28.01.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0