peterpeterparker/daviddalbusco.com

Freelance Web Developer

daviddalbusco.com's Issues

Improve accessibility (Lighthouse 85)

• Form elements do not have associated labels
• Links do not have a discernible name

Replace "full stack" wording

According context with "web developer" or no mention. Don't put in front "Java".

Regarding recent years, I specialized my self in web development with frontend technologies.

blog: display readtime

Gatsby through GraphQL provide such metric

http://localhost:8000/__graphql

query MyQuery {
  allMarkdownRemark {
    edges {
      node {
        timeToRead
      }
    }
  }
}

invisible characters

hi David,

Thank you for the article, I was troubleshooting some Rollup + TS code of mine and stumbled upon your article (which helped, thank you) and noticed two things there:

1. Invisible characters in the raw markdown sources

There are raw invisible characters in the markdown. For example, in https://github.com/peterpeterparker/daviddalbusco.com/blob/master/src/blog/sometimes-you-just-need-a-dumb-library.md there is a BACKSPACE, \u8, visible even on GitHub GUI:

If you wonder how am I able to identify culprits, I paste code into https://detergent.io of mine, it shows invisibles as red clickable bullets (under scenes that's Code Mirror doing the heavy lifting, I set a regex in its config to catch all characters that trim to zero length).

In theory, you could find-and-replace on all blog post markdown files with a regex. Long-term, a plugin in your code editor to highlight invisibles would help too, for example, VSCode's Highlight Bad Chars, https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wengerk.highlight-bad-chars or Atom's https://atom.io/packages/highlight-bad-chars or similar, whatever code editor you use.

2. Invisible characters in the generated HTML

There is also more serious problem with how your Gatsby setup renders code blocks into HTML. The same article, https://github.com/peterpeterparker/daviddalbusco.com/blob/master/src/blog/sometimes-you-just-need-a-dumb-library.md is rendered with \u200b, very visible when copy-pasted into Detergent:

The \u200b don't exist in the markdown source, Gatsby is adding them!

Rollup freaks out when I copy paste the code and errors until invisibles are removed:

So the code examples do work but with "a catch". My Gatsby is limited and my own projects use Eleventy so you'll have to find the exact cause and solution yourself.

PS. There's also good invisible character inspector web app, https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect/hex/1F1EC/1F1E7

All the best and greetings from UK!