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Cool things people do with their blogs
Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more …
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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Increasing the surface area of blogging
Open feeds, OPML, books, blogs and graphs
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Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
From jQuery widgets to the first frameworks, component-centric view layers like React, and today's full-stack frameworks: a look back at each era of JavaScript development and what it taught us.
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Hexells – Self-Organising System of Cells Drawing Textures [WebGL]
is a Self-Organising System of cells, that was trained to build textures using neighbour communication only. This work exposes the relation between the life of an individual cell, and the cell collective as a whole.
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Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps
I hate HTTP reverse proxies and want my webapps to listen directly on port 443. How can I make this work in a world of IPv4 scarcity?
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The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)
Do you recognise these images? There's a good chance you've seen some of them before now, probably several times. Here's a hint: They all depict the same thing.
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Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
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Browser in the Dark: flashlights with CSS and canvas
Note: this article will make more sense if you are using a mouse or other pointing device. Requires javascript.
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An argument for a return to Web 1.0
The web was established with the best of intentions. The basic idea was that if everyone could share their thoughts and ideas with the world, the best ones would be vetted and float to the top. The bad ones would be ignored and pushed to the bottom.
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The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive down
Computational Biologist + Designer + more
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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
This is part 1. Part 2: update : U+237C ⍼ angzarr; Part 3: Monotype Mathematical Sorts Part 4: U+237C ⍼ is (also) S9576 ⍼
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The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash
For many using Unix-derived systems today, we take for granted that /some/path and /some/path/ are the same. Most shells will even add a trailing slash for you when you press the Tab key after the name of a directory or a symbolic link to one.
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Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
With all the fuss about Twitter’s promised edit button, and how they might design it, we’re missing a disturbing development — Twitter is using its embedded javascript to edit other people’s sites.
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Design of This Website (2021)
Meta page describing Gwern.net, the self-documenting website’s implementation and experiments for better ‘semantic zoom’ of hypertext; technical decisions using Markdown and static hosting.
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All you need is links
When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system:
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There's no way to report spam on Google Drive
Recently, I've been getting a lot of spam notifications from Google Drive. Here's a sample: The notifications come direct to my Android phone via the Drive app - they don't appear in my Gmail spam folder. There is no way to report the abuse. If I go to the list of notification in the Android apps, there's no option to…
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Horrible edge cases when dealing with music
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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The end of the nice GTK button
A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I'm not happy it's going away
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Modern PHP
While I wasn’t paying attention, PHP got quite good
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Windows needs a change in priorities
A developer's critique of Windows 11 product priorities, weighing UX consistency and developer trust against ad placement and shell rewrites.
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Exploring Google Hangouts' easter eggs
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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Deno Is Webby
The Deno team recently shipped Deno by example : Deno by example is a collection of annotated examples for how to use Deno, and the various features it…
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My essential Firefox fixes in 2022
Despite Mozilla’s best efforts, I’m still using their browser nearly 20 years on. Here are my tips.