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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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Haskell web programming (a simple tutorial)
tl;dr : A simple Yesod tutorial. Yesod is a Haskell web framework. You shouldn’t need to know Haskell.
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Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web
WebSockets, SPDY, SSL, and persistent connections are in, except that our infrastructure can't support most of these use cases. To enable the modern, real-time web, we need to drag our 'back office' architectures into this century.
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Making Love to Webkit
If the world is going to end in 2012, Acko.net will at least go out in style: I've redesigned.
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How rel=nofollow Works
Links shared on Twitter aren't surfacing in Google's Search Plus Your World because Twitter wants it that way.
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Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
When Google+ first launched, I hustled my way to get an early invite so that I could grope the shiny UI touches like circles, and oogle the sexy tech features like Hangouts, but up until now, I...
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Twitter’s poor API documentation practices
The personal website of Idan Gazit
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Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography
This is the original introductory article to Golden Ratio Typography (GRT). The basic concepts you’ll find on this page are important for understanding GRT, but much of the math is now outdated (and has been replaced by updated formulae). For a more current and comprehensive look at all things GRT, check out the Golden
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The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript
A longer explanation of why I think that the CoffeeScript scoping is problematic and should be changed.
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John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language
At Khan Academy we’ve been investigating teaching Computer Science to students in some new and interesting ways. The most interesting aspect of which is that we’re likely going to be teaching them JavaScript as their first language.
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Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser
Firefox is getting snappier! Hooray
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Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
I'm starting to resent Apps like I resented CD-ROMs. I started playing this ...
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Why apps are not the future
I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll , as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium.