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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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RSS is awesome
Evan briefly discusses rss
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Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
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Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent
AppGoblin has now run over 40k apps in an emulator, tracking millions of API calls thousands of advertising domains. Unfortunately, some of them are dark, meaning they have no landing page of any kind, and I’m unclear who controls these domains.
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SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious
SSL requirements are quickly becoming obnoxious.
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macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.
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An illustrated guide to OAuth
OAuth was first introduced in 2007.
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RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain Unicode characters encoded in UTF-8. There’s another question, though: “ Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”
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Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT
The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.
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Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker
My preferred deployment stack for Python-built static sites.
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Why is D3 so Verbose?
Curious why D3.js code looks long and complicated? I quickly explain why D3 is verbose, how it gives developers control, and what makes it powerful for data visualisation.
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Introduction to AT Protocol
Walkthrough of the various parts and concepts in Bluesky's AT Protocol (ATProto), the types of servers involved and how it all fits together
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How to Draw a Space Invader
This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.
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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser
After Arc's pivot to AI left power users behind, I found the browser I actually wanted.
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An interactive guide to SVG paths
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do with it!
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Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
Porffor can run on Lambda now!
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The beauty of a text only webpage
There's something I love about opening a text-only webpage. They're a refuge from the GDPR cookie banners, the trashy ads, the email opt-ins, and the god...
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Cross-Site Request Forgery
Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures can be greatly simplified using request metadata provided by modern browsers.
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This website is for humans
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen
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The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know
I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know…
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Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot
Google is killing a decade of its shortened links. Will you enlist in the fight against link rot?
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The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown
Custom Elements are basically Markdown for HTML
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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles
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Building Bluesky comments for my blog
I hate disqus too much.
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Infinite Pixels
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
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Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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Litestar is worth a look
A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation …
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