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How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
The Explicit Resource Management proposal empowers developers to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources.
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ClojureScript 1.12.42
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.
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Slow software for a burning world
This page has moved to https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow-software-for-a-burning-world/ .
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An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails
Solid Queue is Rails’ default background job backend: jobs live in your database, no Redis. See how jobs, workers, and the supervisor work under the hood.
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Web search on the Anthropic API
Claude can now search the web through the API, giving users access to real-time information with citations for building up-to-date AI applications. Unknown block type "latestUpdates", specify a component for it in the `components.
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Detect and crash Chromium bots
Disclaimer: If you're here for the holy grail of bot detection, this may not be it, unless your UX strategy involves surprise popups and your marketing strategy involves blocking Google crawlers. We recently stumbled across a bug on the Chromium bug tracker where a short JavaScript snippet can crash
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We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
A look at how and why we migrated from Next.js to Ruby on Rails.
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Why can't HTML alone do includes?
Is there a perfectly clear and reasonable answer? Or could we get this someday?
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Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
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Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
Discover exciting updates to GSAP — supported by Webflow — plus product enhancements and more.
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Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape
Secure the modern software stack with Koi. Gain visibility, context, and real-time protection over extensions, MCPs, and autonomous AI agent endpoints.
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Firefox tab groups are here
What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it. Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect –
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Creating your own federated microblog
In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.
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A new form of verification on Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies...
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Default styles for h1 elements are changing
Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for conformant and better-structured pages.
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Design System Options for Rails
Choosing a design system and component library for Ruby on Rails applications
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Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies
Most of the Firefox User Interface (UI), including the address bar and the tab strip, are implemented using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript plus some additional custom components like XUL. One of the advantages of using web technologies for the front end is that it allows rendering the frontend…
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Better typography with text-wrap pretty
Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.
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My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
by Przemyslaw Maciolek
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We are still using 88x31 buttons
introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…
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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
All the same interfaces, sweet new looks.
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Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free
We're announcing the release of Hyperlight Wasm: a Hyperlight virtual machine “micro-guest” that can run wasm component workloads written in many programming languages. Learn more.
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Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability
Last week, we published CVE-2025-29927 and patched a critical severity vulnerability in Next.js. Here’s our post-incident analysis and next steps.
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Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision
Mozilla.ai developed and released the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint. If you love maps and are interested in training your own computer vision model, you’ll enjoy diving into this Blueprint.
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Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
A story of poor email address validation.
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Claude can now search the web
Claude can now search the internet to provide up-to-date, cited responses on all plans worldwide. Get real-time insights for research, market analysis, and more.