August 31, 2026 - https://mwop.net/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 …Read more →about HTML Hyphenation Hints
August 17, 2026 - https://www.aligneddev.netMicrosoft 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 …Read more →about Microsoft Testing Platform and Reporting Improvements
August 4, 2026 - http://austinhanson.comtl;dr - I had a TikTok collection full of book recommendations, collected over roughly two years, and no sane way to read it. So I pointed agents at the mess, made them OCR the videos and image slides, and ended up with 3,217 book mentions across 412 TikToks.
This started in the deeply respectable …Read more →about Turning Two Years of TikTok Bookmarks Into a Reading List
August 4, 2026 - https://www.aligneddev.netIt was another great year attending Nebraska.Code. I’ve been attending Nebraska.Code() (and HDC before that) off and on for a long time and have always enjoyed the speakers, topics, and meeting other professionals. The theme, “Rise of the Machines” captured AI’s impact on the technology industry. …Read more →about NE Code 2026 Recap
August 3, 2026 - https://trevorarnold.substack.com/Over the last month, I have been heavily utilizing the pro plan for CodeRabbit, an AI code review tool. It might just be my media usage, but I have been seeing tons of ads for CodeRabbit for a while now. If you have been seeing these same ads and wondered if this was for you, well I’ve got the …Read more →about CodeRabbit: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
July 20, 2026 - https://trevorarnold.substack.com/Sunset outside house in Lester
I recently wanted to see how long it would take for me to build a native iOS app with react native, as a developer who has very little experience in mobile development (I previously did a little bit of work with Flutter a couple months back). This is probably the …Read more →about July 2026 - Mobile App Dev
July 7, 2026 - https://mwop.net/I use Nextcloud, and have used the Nextcloud News app as my feed reader for a number of years.
Since moving all my hosting to a home lab, I noticed that Nextcloud News was unable to retrieve feeds from my own website, which was weird. Looking at the logs, I saw notes about “host violates local …Read more →about Nextcloud SSRF rules and internal address ranges