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How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube
Yesterday, the web celebrated its 25th birthday and to join in, I have a little story. A couple of years ago I found a NeXTcube. I'm not going to say where it is to avoid vandalism (the computer is publicly accessible under some circumstances without much oversight), but this is the story. Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
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Vue.js: 2015 in Review
The year of 2015 has been a pretty crazy ride for Vue.js. The project has grown way beyond my expectations, so I’d like to take a look back and put things in perspective. StatsGeneral NPM downloads:
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Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python
The background story to why I built yet another static website generator in Python.
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The best icon is a text label
Icons are an essential part of many user interfaces. The thing is: more often than not, they break clarity. Just replace them by a text label. Or an icon plus label.
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Instagram's Million Dollar Bug
How participation in Facebook's bug bounty not only led to the complete compromise of Instagram, but also legal threats and intimidation
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Why I no longer use MVC frameworks
神の領域10作品まとめページに戻るはじめに総合まとめと称して、100作品とか50作品とかのまとめ記事を書いているが、作品が多すぎて選びきれない！候補10本くらいに絞ってくれ！という要望からこの記事を作成している人間は選択肢が多すぎると逆に選...
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A domain move disaster
Changing my valuable domain name was a cock-up of epic proportions.
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Choosing an HTTP Status Code
What could be simpler than returning HTTP status codes? Did the page render? Great, return 200. Does the page not exist? That’s a 404. Do I...
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Why I'm Excited About Native CSS Variables
A few weeks ago CSS variables—more accurately known as CSS Custom Properties—shipped in Chrome Canary behind the Experimental Web Platform Features flag.[1] When Chrome engineer Addy Osmani first tweeted about the release, he was met with a surprising amount of negativity, hostility, and skepticism. At least, it was…
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The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection
If you spy on an HTTP/2 connection starting up you'll notice that it sends an almost-but-not-quite valid HTTP request at the very start of...
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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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To defend the free web, save Mozilla
The latest version of this post, along with the blog, has moved. TL;DR: Mozilla is largely dependent on Yahoo! We must make sure it is funded by individuals’ donations and a diverse roster of…
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Must-See JavaScript Dev Tools
“JavaScript sucks for large apps because it can’t even identify the type of a variable, and it sucks for refactoring.” ~ lots of very…
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Animated SVG vs. GIF
— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
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Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans
Blog by Nolan Lawson about JavaScript on mobile devices
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How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js
I just noticed the website of an old employer has been hacked and some JavaScript is injected into their corporate website that runs on WordPress. Ouch. Of course I notified them about it and they’re just trying to figure out what happened and how to fix it.
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Patronizing Passwords
Passwords suck. Let’s make them better.
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ImperialViolet
Thomas Ptacek laid out a number of arguments against DNSSEC recently (and in a follow up ). We don't fully agree on everything, but it did prompt me to write why, even if you assume DNSSEC, DANE (the standard for speaking about the intersection of TLS and DNSSEC) is not a foregone conclusion in web browsers.
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How the new Gmail image proxy works and what this means for you
Google recently announced that images in emails will be displayed automatically by default to Gmail users, thanks to an anonymizing proxy operated by them.
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Playing Fasttracker2 .XM files in JavaScript
Hit the play button above and it will play music; specifically, music composed with (or at least, compatible with) a program released in 1994 called FastTracker 2; this is a Javascript homage I wrote in a fit of nostalgia. The source code is on GitHub if you'd like to check it out.