Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 86 posts.
Over the last several years, the way I write CSS has transitioned from a "semantic" approach to something more like what people call "functional CSS." In this post I explain how I got to this point and share some of the lessons and insights I've picked up along the way.
Because our product is written in C++, which can easily be compiled into WebAssembly, Figma is a perfect demonstration of this new format’s power.
A peek into the homegrown solution we built as the first design tool with live collaborative editing.
Let’s retire the ‘virtual DOM is fast’ myth once and for all
They're super powerful.
The solution we found helps us run Figma plugins in a safe way — i.e. not eval(UNTRUSTED_CODE).
In Firefox 70 we changed how pixels get to the screen on macOS. This allows us to do less work per frame when only small parts of the screen change. As a result, Firefox 70 drastically reduces the …
How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.
Effects are a part of your data flow.
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...
Over the last several years we’ve seen a whole range of ideas regarding the architecture of systems. These include:
It’s finally here
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.
We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…
People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser. People are also excited about running WebAssembly from languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust. Lin Clark's Code Cartoons are back, illustrating ...
For my first post on dev.to I thought I'd write about a nice, safe topic that's free of controversy:...
A typical website is made of numerous components coming from a wide variety of sources.
Update (September 23, 2020) – Over the last year, we’ve heard feedback from many customers who have asked us to extend the deprecation date. Based on this feedback we have decided to delay the deprecation of path-style URLs to ensure that customers have the time that they need to transition to virtual hosted-style…
An in-depth description of the React programming model.
The brilliant arcade game Defender now playable inside the favicon of your browser! The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons far and beyond and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels.
Web Bundles enable you to share websites as a single file over Bluetooth and run them offline in your origin's context.
This document describes the web tracking practices that WebKit believes, as a matter of policy, should be prevented by default by web browsers.
Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.
After 4 months of waiting, that is the response I got from Widevine, Google’s DRM for web browsers, regarding a license agreement. For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source…
V8 v7.4 supports JavaScript execution without allocating executable memory at runtime.
