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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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Dropbox starts using POST, and why this is poor API design
Today Dropbox announced in a blogpost titled “Limitations of the GET method in HTTP” that it will start allowing POST requests for APIs that would otherwise only be accessible using GET .
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A game running in your browser's address bar
Interactive animations and even a game in your URL bar.
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Tired of Safari
Yesterday, in reaction to pointer events becoming a W3C recommendation, Tim Kadlec published an important piece about Apple’s huge influence on the mobile web.
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Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture
If you’re like me and you wanted to go further with React, you more than likely would’ve checked out Flux , had a glance, closed the tab and then reassessed…
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React Tips and Best Practices
I've spent a good deal of the past year working with React. I've written, refactored, and re-written many components in that time, and I've seen some best practices and anti-patterns emerge. I'm not going to get into what React is...
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Comodo ships Adware Privdog worse than Superfish
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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ECMAScript 6
An overview of some of the most interesting features of ECMAScript 6, the latest version of the JavaScript specification.
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Exploiting the Superfish certificate
As discussed in my previous blogpost, it took about 3 hours to reverse engineer the Lenovo/Superfish certificate and crack the password. In...
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Extracting the SuperFish certificate
I extracted the certificate from the SuperFish adware and cracked the password (" komodia ") that encrypted it. I discuss how down below. T...
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HTTP/2 Is Done
The IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications, and they’re on their way to the RFC Editor, where they’ll soon be assigned RFC numbers, go through some editorial processes, and be published.
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Invisible Click Tracking Using “Empty” UTF-8 Characters
Have a look at this URL linking to this post: https://kaspars.net/blog/invisible-click-tracking Notice any tracking variables? Me neither! But check out the HTTP request and response in the network inspector of your browser -- it is redirecting to the "same" URL: URL encoded special characters in the browser console…
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The “Web Application” Myth
The last few weeks were full of lots of great articles about an old topic: should things on the internet be dependent on JavaScript and…
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Non-blocking UI's with interface previews
Improving the perceived speed of interfaces using skeleton loading screens plus other front-end/UX performance gains.
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Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind
Over 20 designers copied my website and I don't mind at all, it's actually quite flattering. How would you feel if you were in my shoes - flattered or offended?
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What the Flux?
Flux by Facebook is an architectural pattern for using their React library. This post helps explain flux in easy to understand ways.
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OAuth1, OAuth2, OAuth..? (2013)
TL;DR OAuth2 sucks. Please don't think about OAuth2 as about the next generation of OAuth1. They are completely different like colors: O...
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An experimental real world adblock
Corporate branding and advertisements are ubiquitous in society today and almost impossible to avoid. What if we lived in a world where consumers were blind to this surplus of corporate branding? Brand Killer is a technology demonstration that envisions a future in which consumers can use augmented reality to opt out…
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Don't Make Visitors Make Accounts
Few things bother me more than when I am forced to make an account to have some basic interaction with a website.
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Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
Perhaps you've read posts like Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names and Falsehoods programmers believe about time . Maybe you've also read Falsehoods programmers believe about geography .