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Migrating from instant.page to the browser-native Speculation Rules API, with notes on prefetch, prerender, side effects, and Swup/PJAX conflicts.
Web
- 14 writings
- since 2024
2026
Summer
Winter
18 min read
Why is it called a Radio Button, a Breadcrumb, a Toast? These UI terms trace back to car radios, Grimm's fairy tales, and toasters — metaphors early GUI designers borrowed from the real world.
5 min read
A deep dive into LQIP, BlurHash, ThumbHash, and other progressive image loading strategies for the web.
2025
Autumn
8 min read
How to manage multiple blog themes with CSS variables and the :where selector, including Shiki syntax highlighting theme switching and a FOUC fix.
2 min read
Fix the common problem where fixed top navbars hide jump targets using scroll-margin-top rule
6 min read
ICP filing approved. A quick record of setting up split CDN routing for domestic and international visitors.
Summer
10 min read
How HTTPS secures web traffic, covering symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, CA certificates and chain validation, and the TLS handshake.
4 min read
🤖 From physical pixels and CSS pixels to PPI and device pixel ratio, then on to responsive images with rendered vs. intrinsic size and srcset descriptors.
10 min read
🤖 Optimize LCP with preload, fetchpriority, responsive images and srcset. Covers Sharp image processing, CI/CD automation, and preload hints for better Core Web Vitals.
Winter
3 min read
Integrate medium-zoom into a Hexo blog to replace image-link jumps with an in-page zoom interaction, including Icarus and PJAX notes.
2024
Autumn
14 min read
From cookies to JWT: how the web works around HTTP's statelessness, and the trade-offs each step inherits.
6 min read
Optimizations adopted while maintaining this site, from image compression to lazy loading and CDN.
Summer
6 min read
Apache Tomcat is an open-source, lightweight web application server that implements the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) specs and part of Java EE.
3 min read
HTTP is an application-layer protocol for transferring hypermedia documents such as HTML. This post covers request and response messages.