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Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go
I'm happy to announce the general availability of watgo - the W eb A ssembly T oolkit for G o. This project is similar to wabt (C++) or wasm-tools (Rust), but in pure, zero-dependency Go.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
An enticing social media preview summary.
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Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
Dropping Cloudflare and migrating to bunny.net, starting out with my blog.
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I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
As someone who prefers using services via their websites, I’ve gotten terribly jaded lately. Almost everyone wants me, and by extension, you, to use their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions.
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Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses
Like all good nerds, I generate a unique email address for every service I sign up to. This has several advantages - it allows me to see if a message is legitimately from a service, if a service is hacked the hackers can't go credential stuffing, and I instantly know who leaked my address. A few weeks ago I signed up…
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The CMS is dead, long live the CMS
I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from a self-proclaimed 20 year agency veteran of WordPress saying that was it, they’re moving the entire agency off of WordPress and onto AI. Now, because I, too, am a 20 year veteran of WordPress, this kind of story catches my attention. He posted that they […]
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Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
How bots used our sign-up and forgot password pages to bomb real people's inboxes, and what we did to stop it. A practical guide to subscription bombing for founders and developers who think CAPTCHA is an "I'll do it later" task.
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Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Here are some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken.
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I'm betting on ATProto
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just someone who…
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An NSFW filter for Marginalia search
… optional, that is. I’ve been working on an NSFW filter for Marginalia Search, as that is something some people have asked for, primarily API consumers. The search engine has had some domain based filtering for a while, based on the UT1 lists, but that isn’t a very comprehensive approach. We’ll land on a single…
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New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays
A regression in external display support on Apple Silicon M4/M5 generation chips prevents full HiDPI modes on 4K monitors, limiting users to either blurry non-HiDPI or reduced workspace HiDPI.
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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
Edit April 2, 2026: I've been getting inbound interest from researchers wanting to run their own queries. The MCP integration I use for my own research lets you analyze live mobile telemetry continuously collected from real devices in the wild, directly from Claude. To access it reach out at
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CSS is DOOMed
Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div — DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Using 3D transforms, CSS math functions, @property, clip-path, anchor positioning, and SVG filters to build a fully playable 3D first-person shooter in the browser without Canvas or WebGL.
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Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix
Setting up a website using Elixir and Phoenix, leaning on NimblePublisher for the blog posts.
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“Disregard That” Attacks
Why you shouldn't share your context window with others
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21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains
TLDR; get a list of 21,864 domains from the former Yugoslavia’s “.yu” top level domain: download the .CSV
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Windows native app development is a mess
I tried to build a Windows native app using Microsoft's latest technologies. Now I understand why everyone builds Electron apps.
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The three pillars of JavaScript bloat
A brief look at the three main causes of bloat in our JavaScript dependency trees, and how we can start to address them.
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Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the…
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404 Deno CEO not found
The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly.
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I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
An AI assistant that builds reactive UIs mid-conversation — forms, streaming data, callbacks — using markdown code fences and a mount() UI primitive.
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Death to Scroll Fade
The one where I crowdsource an argument winner.
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Too Much Color
I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.
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The “small web” is bigger than you might think
The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.
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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
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The 49MB web page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
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Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
Traditional Wayland compositors have a monolithic architecture that combines the compositor and window manager into a single program. This has the downside of requiring Wayland window managers to do the significant work of implementing an entire Wayland compositor as well.
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XML is a cheap DSL
Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.
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Returning to Rails in 2026
I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems - give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in having a playground to explore ideas and “what ifs”; Building…