Day 15 of the 8th month
Making large uploads resumable with TurboPush
How TurboPush splits big files into chunks, retries the ones that fail, carries on after a page reload, and keeps the PHP side safe when chunks arrive twice or all at once.
Writing
Notes on how I build things, mostly the products on this site.
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- Day 15 of the 8th month
One source of truth behind a static app
How the second version of Where Should I Live keeps its data in a headless CMS, ships it as static JSON, and refuses to build if the data has drifted.
- Day 15 of the 8th month
Saving websites for offline reading with ScrapePy
What it takes to turn a live website into a copy that works with no connection, and how ScrapePy maps URLs to files, rewrites links and only re-downloads what has changed.
- Day 14 of the 8th month
Why the Solar Calendar has 13 months of 28 days
The rules behind the Solar Calendar, why the year starts on the first Monday after the spring equinox, and why the rebuild swapped special days for a leap week.
- Day 27 of the 13th month
Publishing to Apple News from PHP
What it takes to publish an article to Apple News from PHP, from signing requests and building multipart uploads to the JSON details Apple’s format is strict about.