David Walsh Blog

03/25/2025

https://davidwalsh.name/easy-way-to-upload-transform-and-deliver-files-and-images

Managing media is a really difficult task if you try to do all of it yourself, especially if the media comes from other sources. The file can be submitted

06/12/2023

I have some thoughts...

It's been quite a while since I've gotten a few things off of my chest and since I'm always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to

05/08/2023

How to Use Your Domain on Bluesky

Bluesky is a hot new social networking platform that functions like Twitter from Twitter's original founder. New users are flooding into the platform as a

05/01/2023

How to Blur Faces in a Video from Command Line

Privacy is always incredibly important, especially with visual media where you may not have the permission of individuals in the video. If you're filming

04/18/2023

Wow, I didn't realize that Array.prototype.group had made it to the JavaScript spec!

Managing, sorting, and manipulating data with JavaScript is a skill we've often delegated to third party libraries like lodash. As the JavaScript language

04/10/2023

Never leave the terminal!

I'm a big fan of having as much information as I can get within the command line. I couldn't go without knowing which git branch I'm on, for example.

04/01/2023

Real ones remember where it all began...

02/20/2023

Did you know you could style `input[type=file]` buttons?

We all love beautifully styled form controls but, due to the differences between operating system displays, styling them can be painful. Due to that pain,

02/02/2023

Create a visual diff of two images!

Learn how to use ImageMagick's "convert" tool to create a visual diff of two images.

01/09/2023

Customizing HTML Form Validation

Form validation has always been my least favorite part of web development. You need to duplicate validation on both client and server sides, handle loads