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I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
Everybody get up, it's time to slam now, we got a real jam goin down
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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How I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.
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Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
Blog Quest and StreetPass help you discover the independent web
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Fizz Buzz in CSS
How many CSS selectors and declarations do we need to produce the Fizz Buzz sequence? Of course we could do this with no CSS at all simply by placing the entire sequence as text in the HTML body. So to make the problem precise as well as to keep it interesting, we require that all text that appears in the Fizz Buzz…
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Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
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The web runs on tolerance
If you've ever tried to write a computer program, you'll know the dread of a syntax error. An errant space and your code won't compile. Miss a semi-colon and the world collapses. Don't close your brackets and watch how the computer recoils in distress. The modern web isn't like that. You can make your HTML as…
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Vanilla CSS is all you need
Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy show that modern vanilla CSS can power serious apps without Sass, PostCSS, or a build step.
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Building a Toast Component
How I built Sonner, an opinionated toast library for React used by milions.
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Mozilla's latest quagmire
Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.
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Google unkills JPEG XL?
A quick summary of the format's road to stardom
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A first look at Django's new background tasks
Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in `django.tasks`. But don't expect to phase out Celery, Huey or other preferred solutions just yet.
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Don't Download Apps
The personal blog of Caleb Jay Rogers, Software Engineer
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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.
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New layouts with CSS Subgrid
Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do…
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The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
Mozilla's new strategy document confirms their position, and the end of their stewardship of the open web.
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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
If you were worried about tracking cookies, you really don’t want to know about browser fingerprinting.
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Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150
Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.
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Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
When AI engineering fails: Dealing with hallucinations, misattribution, and broken code in an Okta/Auth0 pull request maintained by AI.
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The internet is no longer a safe haven
A couple of days ago, the small server hosting this website was temporarily knocked out by scraping …
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Messing with scraper bots
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also
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Firefox Forcing LLM Features
Mozilla forcing llm features and providing no gui for users to disable them
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Local First Htmx
Overview Part 2 is now ready There is a common refrain on the internet that things have gotten worse and are continuing to get worse. There is a proliferation of horrible jumpy loading ads on every website, every search engine throws a crappy AI summary in front of your search result, every site/webapp seems to have…
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Dead Framework Theory
These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web. In October last year I wrote “will developers care …
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URLs are state containers
A deep dive into how thoughtful URL design can enhance usability, shareability, and performance. Learn what state belongs in URLs, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical patterns for modern web apps.
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Text case changes the size of QR codes
Changing the case of text can change the size of the corresponding QR code. This is one of the reasons Bitcoin moved from Base58 to bech32 encoding.