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One year ago, on 28 February 2025, Wikipedia user Moyogo updated the page for Angzarr with a citation to the type foundry H. Berthold AG’s 1950 symbol catalogue listing ⍼ as Azimut, Richtungswinkel , or “azimuth”, “direction angle”. Mystery solved!
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.
It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks…
The words are a subset of the 10,000 most common words from Google's Trillion Word Corpus , with definitions sourced from Open English Wordnet .
In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]
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Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native
We locate web content using special addresses called URLs. We are all familiar with addresses like https://google.com. Sometimes, URLs can get long and they can become difficult to read. Thus, we might be tempted to format them like so in HTML using newline and tab characters, like so: <a…
Passkeys are the future of authentication, but using them for data encryption is a disaster waiting to happen. Overloading these credentials creates a dangerous blast radius that can lead to the irreversible loss of a user's most sacred memories and documents.
I’ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames.
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the…
Today, the Web and Internet are owned and controlled by large for-profit corporations and a few governments 1 . Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification 2 .
If coding agents make native ports cheap, why does Anthropic still ship Claude as an Electron app? Because code is cheap but maintenance isn’t.
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Something truly monumental happened in the world of software development in 2025. Safari shipped a reasonable implementation of text-wrap: pretty: https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/. We are getting closer and closer to the cutting-edge XV-century technology. Beautiful paragraphs!
Frontend tooling in 2026+, with and without AI.
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.
While exploring the file system on a jailbroken iPhone 6s, I stumbled upon an interesting folder:
In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved.
Experimental simulation of emergent complexity through graph-rewriting automata.
We have been sold a lie that icons are the universal language of the modern interface.
Learn how DNS works: hierarchy, records, TTL caching, and the full resolution process with diagrams.
If you have Chrome Canary installed with the 'Experimental Web Platform features' flag enabled, you can now try out a new HTML meta tag:
