“What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?” ‑ Douglas Coupland
Published November 9, 2025
If you've tried to write tests in Svelte 5, you may have found it frustrating to setup test cases. Svelte is very rigid in terms of component definition and there's little API documentation. I found some ways to compose and mock Svelte 5 components to make testing simpler.
Published September 22, 2025
Who am I?
I'm a technologist, scientist, and educator. I love exploring enigmatic topics, learning new skills, and teaching others. Ignited by my experiences building web applications and conducting scientific research, I'm here to drive technological innovation for a better future.
Published September 19, 2025
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Explore my collection of professional tips, technology guides, and ongoing development logs (DevLogs), dwelling on topics of technology, science, and philosophy. Relax; stay a while. Grab a coffee and maybe learn something new.
Published November 20, 2025
Now that I'm writing programming tips & guides, my weblog applications need to highlight important information. And what is a technical article without alert blocks? So, I implemented custom Markdown it! rules to convert GitHub-style alert blocks into embedded, theme-aware HTML.
Published November 16, 2025
Writing these DevLogs and other technical articles often involves including code examples. To make these examples render nicely on my website, I integrated highlight.js to highlight code snippet syntax using the fonts and colours defined by the pages' themes.
Published November 6, 2025
My website is now a blog. A key part of developing this first weblog renderer was converting my weblog articles — stored as static Markdown files — into themed HTML pages. The implementation was simple, but making the right decisions required thinking abstractly about websites design.
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