After publishing a quick little project to support contact forms on static websites, I was asked how spam should be handled.

Preventing common spam really isn’t all that hard, so I figured I’d write down a couple of techniques that should be useful for any contact form, comments section or really any form that accepts user input.

While there’s no silver bullet against spam bots, it’s easy enough to make it inconvenient enough for spammers to bother.

What do you do when you want a reactive rendering frontend in an environment with constraints that preclude the use of any modern framework?

You build your own, right? Right?

I recently pushed some PHP code to cluster coordinates that helped me cope with hundreds of thousands of geographic locations.

Turns out drawing all of those on a map isn’t that trivial…

The world of JavaScript has had promises since long, in the form of libraries like Q, BlueBird and many others, like jQuery’s deferred. And it’s been native in JavaScript for awhile now.

I love them!