I was supposed to post this last week (I try to keep to a schedule of every two weeks), but I didn't get around to it because... nope, that's it. That's the reason. Because. And that's good enough, amiright!?!? The heat is slowly cranking up here in Louisiana and I'm dreading the full on summer, but things do slow down a bit when the kids aren't in school and that's something I greatly appreciate. Before getting into this weeks links, I was reminded a few weeks back that my wife actually reads my posts so... hi baby, I love you.

Super useful web components FTW - <form-saver>

First up is a really simple and really useful web component, form-saver. You can wrap any form with the component and instantly get client-side storage of form contents until the form is submitted. This works for all types of form fields except file fields of course. (I assume folks know this but you can't use JavaScript to set the value of a file field for security reasons.)

Here's a simple usage example from the docs:

<form-saver>
  <form action="/contact" method="post">
    <label>
      Name
      <input name="name" autocomplete="name" />
    </label>
    <label>
      Email
      <input name="email" type="email" autocomplete="email" />
    </label>
    <button type="submit">Send</button>
  </form>
</form-saver>

Isn't that sweet? Thanks go to Aaron Gustafson.

As a reminder (and I usually try to avoid linking to my own stuff in these posts, but it's definitely related), if you like this you may like my table-sorter web component as well.

Share the Python Love

Next up is a superb guide at packing Python code for distribution. I've written a lot of Python code, but have only created a distribution once or twice, and this guide literally walks you from the first line of code to publication.

Thanks to Stephen Funk for writing this up!

The Last Quiet Thing

Finally, this essay, "The Last Quiet Thing", is a thought provoking deep look at how much of our lives are being stolen from devices that constantly, endlessly need our attention. Not only is it incredibly well written, it's also really well designed as well.

This was written by Terry Godier and thanks go to Salma Alam-Naylor for sharing it on her newsletter.

Just For Fun

I love building silly things on the web (see yesterday's post as an example), and this little toy from Wes Bos is just that. Tab Snitch does one thing - set a custom title for the web page - but does so with silly and quite embarrassing titles. Although I have to be honest - a few of the fake titles listed there are one's I've probably legitimately had on my screen at some point in time. You can guess which.