Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 78 posts.
You surely know this: You're looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you're probably not gonna need them for a few years or so (so there's no need to memorize them). So, what do you do? You copy-paste them. Here's an example:
You are reading the 2024 edition of the Flask Mega-Tutorial. The complete course is also available to order in e-book and paperback formats from Amazon. Thank you for your support!If you are looking…
I’ve had an unusual number of interesting conversations spin out of my previous article documenting that mobile web apps are slow. This has sparked some discussion, both online and IRL. But…
often devs still approach performance of JS code as if they are riding a horse cart but the horse had long been replaced with fusion reactor
It seems (according to one guru , but coming from this source, it’s a left-handed compliment) that JavaScript is finally popular .
Learn JavaScript Properly (For Beginners and Experienced Programmers) This study guide, which I also refer to as a course outline and a road map, gives you a structured and instructive...
A recent thread on Github for html5-boilerplate discusses whether there’s a benefit from loading jQuery from Google Hosted Libraries , as opposed to serving it from your local server. They referenced the great article Caching and the Google AJAX Libraries by Steve Webster.
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.
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).
A primer on the oft-confusing BEM notation for CSS
Note: The gzipped and Zopflinated file sizes refer to the total byte size of the file after compressing it using gzip or Zopfli with the default settings . For gzip, this boils down to gzip -6 file.js — the default compression level is 6 on a scale from 1 (fastest, but less compression) to 9 (slowest, but best…
The latest official version is 6.1.3
Please note that this post expresses my personal opinion and mine alone, not those of my employer or my teammates.
WebRTC enables peer-to-peer communication. It requires servers so that clients can exchange metadata and coordinate communication through a process called signaling . Servers also help clients cope with network address translators (NATs) and firewalls.
A new design for Acko.net, fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML at sixty frames per second.
Edit, save, and refresh. Revel compiles your code and templates for you, so you don't miss a beat. Code doesn't compile? It gives you a helpful description . Run-time code panic? Revel has you covered .
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful desig...
My point is not that infinite scroll is stupid. It may be great on your website. But we should have done a better job of understanding the people using our website” – Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer at Etsy A few weeks ago, Etsy engineer Dan McKinley gave a talk on “Design for Continuous Experimentation.” It’s …
Round 1 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Project!
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
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.
