Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,175 posts.
A recent article on WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) explains at a high level how the Garbage Collection (GC) proposal aims to better support GC languages in Wasm, which is very important given their popularity. In this article, we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin…
A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.
Local-First software stores data on client devices for seamless offline and online functionality, enhancing user experience and efficiency.
The benefits of immutable caching mean that when a page is refreshed, which is an extremely common social media scenario, elements that were previously marked immutable with an HTTP response ...
WebGPU is an upcoming Web API that gives you low-level, general-purpose access GPUs.
Significance of Apple's support for JPEG XL and what this means for the widespread adoption of this next-generation image compression format.
WebGL is, all things considered, a pretty decent API. It’s not a great API, but that’s just because OpenGL is also not a great API. It gives you raw access to the GPU and is pretty low-level. For those intimidated by something so low-level, there are quite a few higher-level engines like three.js and Unity which are…
This is a response to the Rust call for blogs 2021 and also a followup to last year’s entry. It will be entirely focused on GUI.
Mozilla’s mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we’re supporting this mission by experimenting with what’s n
One of the hot features that came with HTTP/2 was PUSH frames. The main idea is that if the server can predict what requests a client might want to make, the server can preemptively send request/response pairs to the client and warm its cache.
DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service that removes multiple kinds of trackers and lets you create unique private email addresses.
Compare coding style, bundle size and performance of 61 different ways to make a Web Component.
TL;DR: Did you know that The Verge delivers you to around 20 companies for advertising & tracking purposes? I didn't. That might foul up your web experience a little bit. Maybe we should try something different.
A few times a week, someone asks on the #gui-and-ui channel on the Rust Discord, “what is the best UI toolkit for my application?” Unfortunately there is still no clear answer to this question. Generally the top contenders are egui, Iced, and Druid, with Slint looking promising as well, but web-based approaches such…
Feb 2015: A lot’s happened since I wrote this post two years ago. Chrome forked WebKit and started Blink, Opera adopted Chromium, and node-webkit became nw.js. This post describes a complexity of defining WebKit that doesn’t exist much anymore; with Chrome’s departure the WebKit world is more simple and clear.
We are now happy to announce that QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare edge network. We’re excited to be joined in this announcement by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, two of the leading browser vendors and partners in our effort to make the web faster and more reliable for all.
With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language.
WebGPU is a new API being developed by Apple and others in the W3C which enables high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the Web.
Meta page describing Gwern.net, the self-documenting website’s implementation and experiments for better ‘semantic zoom’ of hypertext; technical decisions using Markdown and static hosting.
By: Arnar Birgisson and Diana K Smetters, Identity Ecosystems and Google Account Security and Safety teams Starting today , you can create a...
Target="_blank" - the most underestimated vulnerability ever - Wednesday, 04 May 2016 - Alex's blog
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
After one week wearing an Apple Watch, my big picture thoughts and observations. It all hinges on the Taptic Engine and digital touch communication.
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. For over a year, the React team has been working to implement asynchronous rendering. Last month during his talk at JSConf Iceland, Dan unveiled some of the exciting new possibilities async rendering unlocks. Now we’d like to share with…
