The Curious Engineer

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Ahmad Alfy

alfy.blog

This is my blog where I write about software engineering, programming, and other things that interest me.

Frontend / CSS / browsersWeb developmentJavaScript / TypeScriptSoftware / engineering practice

’15’20’25
Posts
23 from 16 Aug 2013 to 27 Oct 2026
Posting
monthly (6 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 6

  1. A select should tell you something
  2. Iframes that finally fit their content
  3. I wanted the browser to just ship jQuery. Cross-Origin Storage came for rescue
  4. Testing Google’s “modern-web-guidance” skill against a real React app
  5. The HTML Sanitizer API
  6. Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts

2025 5

  1. Your URL Is Your State
  2. The Hidden Cost of URL Design
  3. How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
  4. Avoiding the Shiny Object Syndrome: When “Good Enough” Is Actually Perfect
  5. From Code That Works to Code That Matters: A PDF Security Feature Story

2024 2

  1. Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
  2. Search friendly dropdown menu

2021 3

  1. CSS Style Guide At Robusta
  2. Early detection of potential problems by checking frequently updated files using Git
  3. Architecture Decision Records

2020 4

  1. Personal identification in Git
  2. Naming color variables in CSS
  3. Using HTML attributes on input tag to improve user experience
  4. Building components that extend beyond their parents containers

2019 1

  1. Everything you need to know about images loading

2014 1

  1. Let's Talk About RTL

2013 1

  1. Give Opera Some Time