A current (2026) guide to setting up a React development environment with Vite and Node.js LTS, then building your first app — function components, th...
Read article Feb 17, 2023
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MicroPyramid Blog
Articles that strengthen our current focus on AI systems, modernization, and product engineering, alongside the broader engineering archive.
Older posts still cover Django, Python, AWS, Salesforce, React, Flutter, and Svelte, but the clearest current signal is around the three service lanes below.
AI Systems
RAG, knowledge workflows, search, and practical AI system design.
Explore service pageModernization
Legacy cleanup, migration planning, Django rescue, and safer system change.
Explore service pageProduct Engineering
Full-stack delivery, dashboards, portals, MVPs, and AI-ready product work.
Explore service pageA practical 2026 guide to drag-and-drop multiple file uploads with Dropzone.js v6+: install via npm or CDN, configure the programmatic API (maxFiles, ...
Read article Jul 20, 2020
Copy text to the clipboard in JavaScript using the async Clipboard API: navigator.clipboard.writeText(). A current 2026 guide covering secure contexts...
Read article Jul 13, 2020
Universal Analytics is retired. This updated guide shows how to pull Google Analytics 4 data into your own dashboard with the GA4 Data API in Python (...
Read article Mar 5, 2015
Universal Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce (ec.js) stopped collecting data in 2023. Here is how to track product views, add-to-cart, purchases and site se...
Read article Feb 19, 2015
A practical, up-to-date guide to jQuery mouse events (click, dblclick, hover, mousedown/up, mousemove) and touch events, plus the modern vanilla-JS re...
Read article Feb 6, 2015
Jcrop makes image cropping in jQuery simple, but Cropper.js is the modern, dependency-free standard. Here's how to crop in the browser and finish the ...
Read article Jan 13, 2015
The 2014 widget-scraping trick is dead: Twitter is now X, v1.1 statuses endpoints are retired, and reads need an authenticated, paid API tier. Here is...
Read article Dec 30, 2014
Event delegation attaches one listener to a stable parent so it can handle events from many current and future child elements. Here is the jQuery .on(...
Read article Dec 18, 2014
Gulp.js still works in 2026 for minifying CSS and JavaScript and compiling SCSS or Less, but Vite and esbuild have largely replaced it for new project...
Read article Jun 12, 2014
jQuery 3.7.x is still maintained and runs on a huge share of the web, but modern JavaScript has absorbed most of what it was built for. Here is an hon...
Read article May 3, 2014
jQuery Mobile is deprecated and archived, so don't build new touch interactions on it. This guide explains the legacy tap, taphold, swipe and vmouse e...
Read article Mar 28, 2014
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