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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 555 posts.
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WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
The news has just come out that Opera is switching all of their browsers (both mobile and desktop) to use WebKit (specifically, Chromium). I’ve seen a lot of gnashing of teeth on Twitter and I feel like I can respond because I use to feel the same way back in 2008-2009. However this is 2013 and the Chrome/Chromium…
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Introducing ASP.NET vNext
There’s some really cool stuff going on on the ASP.NET and Web Tools team. The ...
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You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
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Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor
Hello friends!
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Short URLs: Why and How
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers
Google Chrome is not the default browser on Android 4.3+. There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers, and they are all subtly, though not wildly, different.
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Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques
Debuggers serve as invaluable tools that empower developers to halt code execution and thoroughly analyze its behavior at any given moment. By utilizing debuggers, developers can efficiently identify and resolve issues within their code, making it an indispensable part of their toolkit.
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Generators in Firefox now 22 times faster
wingolog: article: generators in firefox now twenty-two times faster
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Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript
Chris Haynes - web developer consultant
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So you want to build a browser engine
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
Garamond is widely considered one of the greatest fonts ever made. But the things that make Garamond so beautiful also make it a problem.
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A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites
I noticed yesterday that some C#, JavaScript and CSS files I had sitting in ...
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JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
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Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
Like many developers I’ve been excited by the promise of Asm.js . Reading the recent news that Asm.js is now in Firefox nightly is what got my interest going. There’s also been a massive surge in interest after Mozilla and Epic announced ( mirror ) that they had ported Unreal Engine 3 to Asm.js – and that it ran…
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Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets
Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less…
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Writing HTML in HTML
I've just finished the final rewrite of my website. I'm not lying: this is the last time I'm ever going to do it. This website has gone through countless rewrites – from WordPress to Jekyll to multiple static site generators of my own – but this is the final one. I know so, because I've found the ultimate method for…
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Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
Google Maps and Apple Maps . At first glance, the columns below look very similar...
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Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection
In this blog post, we'll examine the virtualization obfuscation used by Nike
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How “See a Satellite Tonight” Works
See A Satellite Tonight is my most successful side project so far, with 5 million users since launch in 2019. It's been entirely a solo project, and I've used it as a proving ground for a bunch of tech that I wanted to learn. It took dozens of APIs and services to put together the experience I wanted: The front page…
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How fast is AMP really?
Tim Kadlec writes about performance, product management, and the web.