Sidney Liebrand's blog - How I became a web developer

This post describes how to deal with a bug in Firefox where it fails to properly identify the result of FontFaceSet.entries() as an actual iterable object.

I've seen a fair few tutorials on building a page load progress bar for Next.js applications but most of them use the external library NProgress. While NProgress is a very nice general purpose library we can also build our own 'cheap' progress bar without using any library!

This post shows how to convert .gif images to web-safe video formats using ffmpeg cli. These formats produce smaller files which means less data to load!

Recently I decided to clean up my vim plugins once again, I do not think I use too many but I prefer to keep my setup simple. One of the things which bothered me was the configuration for lightline.vim in my vim config. It seemed needlessly complex and I wondered if I could recreate it without any plugins at all!

It is never fun when stuff breaks! This post is about me fixing some audio deficiencies after upgrading Ubuntu.