JavaScript, TypeScript & Node

3+ min ago   (814+ words) I spent the last few months building a remote MCP server for the blog platform I run (JustBlogged). It lets Claude, Cursor or Claude Code create posts, set tags and SEO fields, upload images and publish Reading data over MCP…...

6+ min ago   (630+ words) For a blog, that leads to three different outcomes depending on how you connected the domain: That last case is easy to get wrong. www.taniarascia.com is a CNAME to tania.netlify.app, which has no CAA records. The…...

3+ min ago   (748+ words) I added an editable video-relighting effect to Timeline Studio, my open-source browser video editor. It lets you move a virtual light around a scene, adjust its color and softness, and compare the result with the original while keeping the effect…...

3+ min ago   (176+ words) If you’re building something with countries, you’ll probably need flags at some point. And then comes... Tagged with react, tools, design, webdev. If you’re building something with countries, you’ll probably need flags at some point. And then comes the usual…...

3+ min ago   (1219+ words) A video editor needs to remember more than cuts. It also needs to remember why a cut matters. “Start the second chapter here.” “Review this section before publishing.” “Leave a little more room at the end.” These instructions become much…...

3+ min ago   (1688+ words) An ordinary video records color and motion, but it does not explicitly tell an editor which pixels are near the camera and which belong to the background. I added browser-local depth estimation to Timeline Studio, my open-source video editor, to…...

12+ min ago   (207+ words) Have you ever needed an emoji for a project, only to spend the next few minutes looking for the right version? Sometimes you just need a PNG for your UI. Other times, you need an SVG, a Unicode value, an…...

11+ min ago   (355+ words) Most FastAPI auth tutorials stop at "it returns a token". This one goes further: one file, 118 lines, five endpoints, and every response below comes from actually running it, including the failure cases most guides skip: no token, wrong password, a…...

9+ min ago   (639+ words) An eight-minute video is long enough to expose work that is easy to miss in short browser-editor demos: audio preparation, repeated frame conversions, background thumbnail decoding, and idle time between decode, composition, and encoding. We recently optimized these paths in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1193+ words) Backbone never tried to be a full framework. It gave you models, collections, views, a router and events, and then it left the rest to you. How views get cleaned up, how one part of the app talks to another,…...