Ravi S. Iyer: Software Development

Last updated on 9 Oct 2026 Jump Links VS Code NBSP Find and Replace Removing id attribute from header tags using regex in VS Code Changing h3 tags to h2 excluding h3 tags followed by specific class using regex in VS Code SOP for Gemini chat markdown conversion to html for Blogger post Optimizing Table Layouts Increasing Table Column Spacing via border-spacing "One-Liner" for Table Grid Borders - Not Straightforward Search and Replace in Blogger Edit HTML window Stripping hljs-* Highlighting Classes from HTML Troubleshooting and Validating Markdown-to-HTML Conversion Errors VS Code NBSP Find and Replace # 20:59, 13 April 2026 From Gem chat: VS Code NBSP Find and Replace Me: When I copy pasted a message from one of our chats to VS Code, what seemed to me to be a space got copied over as NBSP character which showed as a space but was not being matched in a find with space. ... [After getting soln.] Me: That's it. Now it shows me a border around it. Hmm. I think thi...

Last updated on  13 June 2026 Post series: Part 1 ,    Prev Part (2) ,     Next Part (4) ,     Post Series TOC Contents JavaScript can be confusing due to convenience over explicitness approach Web Workers and Service Workers Web Workers API Web Worker is different from Service Worker Service Workers are also Web API HTML Standards and who controls them HTML standard is massive now HTML Living Standard W3C is no longer Boss of HTML; Browser vendors are in charge Chromium (Google/Microsoft), WebKit (Apple) and Gecko (Mozilla) are bosses of the web now Living Standard is followed by Platform Engineering (Browsers). Product Engineering (.NET, Java) uses versions Big Tech has great power over web but Mozilla provides some balance Misc Web APIs: Server-Sent Events (EventSource) API, Notifications API, History API, Intersection Observer API HTML Server-Sent Events API Push Notifications (Firebase Cloud Messagin...