Synaptic Spillage

Synaptic Spillage

Todd Esposito

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Hi, I’m Todd. I've been an entrepreneur, developer, website builder, network cabler, fast-car driver and spell-check ignorer for over 20 years. I dig Python, JavaScript, the CSS Grid and horsepower.

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This Just In: Yet Another Local Web Server

Oct 2, 2021 8 min read 297 views

Fact is, I should not have built this code. I'm sure that somewhere, there's a suitable NPM or PyPi package (or something in some other language) which would have worked out just fine. But nothing I saw on the first page of my search results seemed l...

This Just In: Yet Another Local Web Server

Events: Web Components Phone Home

Sep 15, 2021 5 min read 24 views

This is (probably) the final installment in my series on Web Components, which you should totally check out if you haven't already, not only because I wanted to use the phrase "totally check out" in print, but also because those previous couple of ar...

Events: Web Components Phone Home

Component Styling For Fun and Profit

Aug 23, 2021 4 min read 192 views

In the continuing saga of our Web Component building journey, we now turn our attention to allowing our web components to be styled. In case you missed it, we've been building a "loading modal" web component, and we've added some customizability via ...

Component Styling For Fun and Profit

Slots and Properties and Attributes, Oh My!

Aug 4, 2021 7 min read 34 views

This article is the second in my series on building Web Components, and builds on what I started in Building A Loading Modal Component. If you haven't seen that one yet, you may want to give it a quick read to catch yourself up. Making our component ...

Slots and Properties and Attributes, Oh My!

Building a "Loading Modal" Component

Jul 29, 2021 3 min read 69 views

Web Component technology is, well, it's delicious bits of Web Candy. Crunchy and hard on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, delightful throughout. Of course, with any technology, you have to ask: Why? Short Answer: Encapsulation Encapsulati...

Building a "Loading Modal" Component

When a Spinner Just Won't Do

Jul 26, 2021 6 min read 31 views

Streaming is Magic. Ok, not magic, but still pretty neat. I'm not talking about video or audio streaming here. I'm talking about using streaming to keep a web-app user aware of the progress of a possibly long-running server-side process. Because some...