I’ve thought about writing this blog for quite some time and maybe not for the reasons you might think.
You see - my first and longest passion in life has been programming. I remember, in vivid detail, my dad sitting on the carpet with 6 year old me and a big, clunky, mold-injected, dark-grey … Impressive AI generated mountains
This has been something I have been talking to a lot of people in the tech space for a couple of months now. A hypothesis of what the role of software developer (engineer) looks like now that AI development has gotten so good. I have been using these AI dev tools … I’ve known about webmentions for years, as well as microformats; I’ve even included microformats in my markup for probably close to a decade at this point. But accepting and sending webmentions, while it seemed like a great idea, just never really made it to my priority list.
Until it … I recently was troubleshooting how to force the browser to hyphenate a PHP class name, and discovered something new.
The HTML entity ­ is a “soft hyphen”; it won’t display unless the browser decides to introduce a line wrap at that point.
It’s shy like that.
HTML … Microsoft recently released improvements to the Microsoft Testing Platform, enhancing the reporting capabilities for .Net applications. This article was certainly written by AI and has a lot of content, but not a good example to follow. I had some time, so I got it working and have an example to …