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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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Open Social
The protocol is the API.
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Resurrect the Old Web
Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones. Their parents thought they w...
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Just let me select text
Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
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Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
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Why haven't local-first apps become popular?
Offline-first apps promise instant loading and privacy, but in practice, very few apps get offline support because getting sync right is surprisingly hard.
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Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News
HN should be treated as an external comment section for the internet to the extent that it can’t substitute for the internet, much less for your own thinking. At its best, HN is a map to new questions and a window onto new angles. The landscape itself remains elsewhere.
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The bloat of edge-case first libraries
How building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it
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This website has no class
Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.
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Just Use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in…
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Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces
Creating good-looking user interfaces has always been a struggle for me. If you’re in the same camp, this might help.
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"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces
Adam Silver – interaction designer – London, UK
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React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Exploring how React's dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.
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Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of iOS. Since
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How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts
Here's how to self-host a web font from Google Fonts - Blog-ifyer
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No adblocker detected
Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the industry behind them is actively making the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad-filled hellhole with no real substance. (see: Modern social media )
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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.
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How RSS beat Microsoft
Microsoft tried to own content syndication with ICE. How open RSS beat it, and what that war teaches us about open formats like email.
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Is OOXML Artifically Complex?
OOXML is less an act of sabotage than the continuation of a flawed, inelegant lineage.
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Purposeful animations
Why you are animating more often than you should.
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Poisoning Well
An experimental strategy for contaminating Large Language Models
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How to build vector tiles from scratch
Building MVT tiles from scratch
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For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
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Passkeys and Modern Authentication
Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.
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Next.js is infuriating
Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time,…
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Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
A breakdown of how to build a custom Three.js shader that recreates the iridescent, sparkling look of foil stickers using vertex deformation, angle-based color shifts, and procedural flakes.
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OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.
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A blog does not need “analytics”
Analytics are a military and financial tool. Your blog is not and you shouldn’t surveil you readers.