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The death of web development education
Rescuing a field from disappearing
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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I switched to Brave
I've been using Brave for a couple months now after using Firefox for around 25 years. I think Brave will be a permanent change.
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Tells of a Slop UI
AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for
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What About Rails?
DHH's opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.
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I don't like passkeys
Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.
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The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
Rebuilding Firefox.com with Mozilla and Lincoln Loop on modern, native CSS with no pre-processors, and what that means for design systems today.
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CSS-Tricks in Limbo
I’m sad to say that CSS-Tricks is stuck in limbo again. The site was acquired by Digital Ocean in 2022, and it continued to run under their ownership until February of 2023, when DigitalOcean fired the people working on it. The site stayed latent for a year before DigitalOcean re-hired lead editor Geoff Graham in June…
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The case against JPEG XL
Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...
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Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026
I wanted to know if WebAssembly runtimes are getting faster.
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Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
We can mostly blame Internet Explorer, as always.
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Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai , Hacker News The Register , The Verge , and Gizmodo , among others. The blog post was about a Google Chrome bug that mysteriously exempted Google-owned sites from the…
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The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
The transition to the Rust version of the React Compiler for the 1,036-file React Router codebase resulted in a significant speed increase, improving build times from 14.3 seconds to 0.81 seconds. The new compiler addresses previous limitations and ensures consistency across the toolchain, making it easier to manage…
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Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)
Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)
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The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh…
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Hang on to Your Firefox
According to Wikipedia , it’s an adage that goes back to 1512 in Germany. People have known for hundreds of years that you should be careful not to throw out a good and vital thing in your zeal to get rid of a minor annoyance.
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The browser's main thread is expensive
What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimization"? For most of us it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…
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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.
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Making the Internet Boring
I once overrode my own website blocker for 444 minutes. After that I stopped relying on willpower and started making the internet boring: app deletions, LeechBlock, grayscale mode, and a custom userscript.
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“It works better in the app”
The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their generation. I wanted to subscribe to an events calendar. I had a URl. I had…
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Select * from Internet.blogposts
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
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Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
Thinking about UX, a slight delay on a simple tooltip can be nice so that mousing over something quickly doesn't trigger it, but if there are related tooltips nearby, maybe we don't need to wait.
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Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
I was creating a Google Workspace account for my company, as everyone knows, it’s a pretty straightforward sign-up process, until I’m hit with a weird, confusing error when I type my domain name:
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I Just Want to Search
Learning to search was a key skill growing up as a teen in the 2000s. How to use accurate keywords, quotes, the entire lot of search operators. Google-fu was a hard earned skill (yes, I read a book) and helped me figure out a surprising amount of life.
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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...
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HTML Can Do That
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
The secret is humble UITextField.
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Every fucking website: 2026 edition
Every AI-generated landing page, all at once, labelling itself as it goes.
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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
A complete crawl of every restored link from 2009 to 2014 found that 76.7% no longer return a loading page.
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HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Building a SPA (Single-page Application) is a complex puzzle: a JavaScript framework that draws the view, an API serving JSON, and 2 independent…