The progress HTML element was introduced in HTML5 and is used to represents the completion progress of a task. Typically it is displayed as a progress bar but this can be overridden so is up to the web developer.

While redoing my social follow icons I realised that there didn’t seem to be any SVG version of the Stack Overflow logo on the internet. So naturally I went and put one together! I hope it’s useful.

The default Blogger assets have plagued me ever since I started to dive deep into the Blogger template to make my design nicer and to drive the page load time down. I discovered recently how to remove them so no requests are made.

Design patterns in software engineering are generic solutions to some commonly occurring problems encountered when creating software. They are incredibly useful tools for both communicating a solution to a problem to other developers and also for saving time solving problems that have already been solved in quite elegant ways. Learning the big design patterns is a also just a great way to improve your skills as a software developer.

Selection sort is an O(n^2) sorting algorithm that works by searching through a list to find the minimum element and swapping it for the first in the list. After every swap, selection sort is performed on the list with the head removed (ie. the minimum element). Due to the way that elements are swapped anywhere in the list, this is not a stable sort.

The output HTML element was introduced in HTML5 and represents a calculated value belonging to a form. An example use case is client-side calculation on a shopping website’s checkout page.

The q HTML element is used to represent an inline quote. Now regular quotes (“”) can represent this just fine, surrounding the quote in the q tag differs in that it explicitly indicates that the text is a quote, removing ambiguities that it could be emphasis, irony, etc.

The samp HTML element is used to represent (sample) output from a program. It has been around since HTML1, though back it was simply used to markup a sequence of literal characters.