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Open Social
The protocol is the API.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,175 posts.
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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections . Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds , making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that many users don't have broadband speeds, both inside and outside of the U.S. and that much of the modern web isn't…
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The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields
Back in the day when the British had a penchant for conquering the world, they ran into a little problem on the subcontinent; cobras. Turns out there were a hell of a lot of the buggers wandering around India and it also turned out that they were rather venomous which
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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
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Email: Explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
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Contextual Identities on the Web
The Containers Feature in Firefox Nightly enables users to login to multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously and gives users the ability to segregate site data for improved privacy and security. We all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations. The way I speak with my son is much…
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Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
I considered removing comments from the blog after looking into Disqus load-time behaviour and seeing what it was imposing on visitors.
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Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)
Both of these sentences divulge too much of the mechanics of getting the Amaya software. If you want to call your reader to action, use something like:
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React Native at Airbnb
In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch
A whirlwind tour of the big ideas powering our web search
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A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS
At Mozilla, we closely track threats to users' privacy and security. This is why we've added tracking protection to Firefox and created the Facebook container extension. In today's cartoon intro, ...
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If not React, then what?
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
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The worst API ever made (2014)
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
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Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
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Thunderbird’s Future Home
Summary The investigations on Thunderbird’s future home have concluded. The Mozilla Foundation has agreed to serve as the legal and fiscal home for the Thunderbird project, but Thunderbird will migrate off Mozilla Corporation infrastructure, separating the operational aspects of the project. Background In late 2015…
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Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015)
Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37. - Number 1.0 (Futurama, S2E15 )
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
Developers have asked what Google's proposed changes to their extensions API, known as Manifest v3, mean for Mozilla. Here are some frequently asked questions.
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Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web
Chrome is announcing a new initiative to explore how to evolve the web in a way that advances privacy, while supporting publishers, and free and open content.
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My Custom CSS Reset
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
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Building a fast Electron app with Rust
When I built Finda , I wanted it to be fast — specifically, to respond to all user input within 16 milliseconds.
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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what ...
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How To Scroll
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
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Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005)
Based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005—one entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification."