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A guide to useEffect in React
Effects are a part of your data flow.
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Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions
The Story So Far As part of an effort to increase user security and privacy, Chrome is planning a number of changes to the extensions pla...
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Mac external displays for designers and developers
If you’re considering an external display for your Mac, there’s a few important decisions to make. Apple doesn’t sell external displays any more, so you can’t just default to their wisdom. That’s an issue, because not all displays are well suited for Macs.
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Clean Coder Blog
Over the last several years we’ve seen a whole range of ideas regarding the architecture of systems. These include:
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The Rule of Least Power
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Principles of Design
Again and again we fall back on the folklore of the principles of good design. Sometimes I need a URI for them so this is started as collection of them. I have written about some in many places. Principles such as simplicity and modularity are the stuff of software engineering; decentralization and tolerance are the…
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LastPass autofill exploit
Mathias Karlsson decided to check out the security of the LastPass browser extensions. Here's what he found.
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Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
At Mozilla, we want WebAssembly to be as fast as it can be. This started with its design, which gives it great throughput. Then we improved load times with a ...
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Local-first software (2019)
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
Like FLoC and Privacy Sandbox before it, Google Chrome’s Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of the largest internet advertising networks.
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Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
It’s finally here
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The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
How does this keep happening? It is a mystery.
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* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW
One of my least favorite parts about layout with CSS is the relationship of width and padding. You’re busy defining widths to match your grid or general column proportions, then down the line you start to add in text, which necessitates defining padding for those boxes. And ‘lo and behold, you now are subtracting…
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Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn’t need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand, we knew developers could build applications that would delight users.
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Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.
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Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates
Mozilla has discovered that a Certificate Authority (CA) called WoSign has had a number of technical and management failures. Most seriously, we discovered they were backdating SSL certificates in order ...
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Full-Stack Redux Tutorial
Tero Parviainen
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Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)
CSS Color Module 4 adds oklch(), and we gain P3 wide-gamut support, boost code readability, and improve developer-designer communication.
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Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains
A look-back at caching strategies from the past; with recent changes in Chrome's and Safari's caching strategies, there is no caching benefit from using publicly available third-party libraries anymore.
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Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022
Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.
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Pattern: Back ends for front ends
With the advent and success of the web, the de facto way of delivering user interfaces has shifted from thick-client applications to interfaces delivered via the web, a trend that has also enabled the growth of SAAS-based solutions in general. The benefits of delivering a user interface over the web were huge …
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Web Vitals | Articles
Essential metrics for a healthy site
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jQuery Joyride Plugin
ZURB is a product design company that helps businesses create better experiences through research-driven design strategy, interaction design, and branding.
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Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo.
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Explore Qt Demos: Interactive Examples for Your Next Project
Explore interactive Qt demos that showcase the power of Qt’s cross-platform tools—ideal for developers seeking real-world applications to boost their projects.
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Why Vite
Next Generation Frontend Tooling
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How Do Lava Lamps Help with Internet Encryption?
The Cloudflare lava lamps are used for Internet encryption. Learn about entropy in cryptography and why randomness is essential for SSL encryption.
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Tim Berners-Lee: WorldWideWeb, the first Web client
The first web browser - or browser-editor rather - was called WorldWideWeb as, after all, when it was written in 1990 it was the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order to save confusion between the program and the abstract information space (which is now spelled World Wide Web with spaces).