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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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A faster BBC News front page
Web performance is something I care deeply about both as a developer whose work affects millions of people around the world, and as a user who often accesses the web on slow & unreliable connections. I have regularly and loudly complained that...
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Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
There’s better ways to do this already built into HTTP.
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Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
I considered removing comments from the blog after looking into Disqus load-time behaviour and seeing what it was imposing on visitors.
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Thoughts on the Social Graph (2007)
I've been thinking a lot about the social graph for awhile now: aggregating the graph, decentralization, social network portability, etc.
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Building a r/place in a weekend
On Friday I accepted a challenge to clone Reddit's /r/place in a weekend. And I did it, and its live, and its amazing: Being able to build this in a weekend isn't genius. Its possible because programming is made up of 2 activities: Making decisions (95%) Typing (5%) Reddit
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Glimmer.js: What’s the Deal with TypeScript?
Two weeks ago at EmberConf, we announced Glimmer.js, a component-based library for writing superfast web applications.
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Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
What is slack doing? The process was in the background when this happened. I wasn't even interacting with it - I was in a meeting. I only noticed because my laptop fans were whurring when I got back. Restarting slack seemed to fix it for now. But that's not abnormal
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Web Development in Go
You should write your next web server in Go. Yes, you! Compared with Ruby, PHP, Python, or Javascript, you're going to get great memory and latency performance, and libraries that do what you expect .
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The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
Great web applications boot up fast and stay silky smooth once they've started. In other contexts, applications can choose quick loading or responsiveness once they've loaded. Great games can get away with a long loading bar as long as they react instantly once the gamer gets going. In
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Webserver Back End with Orleans Actor System, Dotnet Core and Server-Side Redux
A radically different web server architecture that turned my twenty years of experience in building websites upside down
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Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros
A while ago I read John Novaks great rant on how hard and annoying it can be to do something as simple as extending a cross-platform application with the simplest of GUIs. Or as he puts it:
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LastPass: Security done wrong
Disclaimer: I am the author of Easy Passwords which is also a password manager and could be considered LastPass competitor in the widest sense. Six month ago I wrote a detailed analysis of LastPass security architecture. In particular, I wrote:
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Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more
The full code for the completed scraper can be found in the companion repository on github. Introduction I wouldn’t really consider web scraping one of my hobbies or anything but I guess I sort of do a lot of it.
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
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Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
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We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
12 Mar, 2017 The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How can they possibly be our allies?
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Linting HTML using CSS
Articles on frontend development and more.
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Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
Your AMP pages have a higher than usual bounce rate? Don't worry, your data may be wrong. In this article, I explain you why.
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Https hurts users far away from the server
Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.
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Password Rules Are Bullshit
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. Let this pledge be duly noted on the permanent record of the Internet. I don’t know if there’s an afterlife, but I’ll be finding out soon enough, and I plan
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Emoji.length == 2
EDIT: Wow, much to my surprise this really blew up on Hacker News . There are some pretty interesting discussions happening. (Thanks Stan !)
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