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Fixing the potato

In my last post about screenshotting a node with JavaScript I got as far as a fairly low quality image. Since then I’ve figured out how to fix it.

Let’s start using details more

DX In 2016 I was given two days off work to watch the livesteam of the ReactEurope conference from Paris. Speaker after speaker kept saying “DX”, and at first I couldn’t figure it out. What was this DX? After a couple of talks I realised it was developer experience, and also noted throughout the two days nobody mentioned UX. This was shocking to me. I’ve been to a handful of web conferences and watched plenty of recordings of talks, and it’s pretty much a given that “UX” will be in every talk.

Building a progressively enhanced todo with modern web standards Recently I need to use a mutation observer and dutifully searched for “mdn mutation observer”. It led to me this blog post, and it had a demo of a regular list with contenteditable. What I neither knew nor expected was that contenteditable on a list means you can add new items by pressing enter. It started me wondering if I could build a decent todo list—like framework devs used to do and boast about it being only 80 megabytes or whatever.