The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 178 posts.
I’ll start by saying that this is not a rant, but rather a cry of despair that I’m repeating and that slowly - but steadily - seems to come to consciousness in our industry, like this one. The phenomenon I’m about to describe is not only limited to the Javascript community either, that community seems a lot more…
It's been a while since I've posted so figured it's about time I started a new series on my blog.
Stop writing Javascript frameworks. Translations: Chinese Japanese Russian Here's the talk, based on this essay, that I gave at OSCON 2015. [Slides] The 100-line templating library presented as a Gist has been cleaned up, documented, and published as the Stamp library. JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxes…
Meteor, say hello to cross-platform native app-development. Qt, say hello to a modern, reactive web back-end. TL;DR You can write a nativ...
Learn more about what Meteor.js is...
For a long time one of the recommendations for a faster site has been to “serve your static content from a cookieless domain”. This sugges...
Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps.
Update: Together with Udacity I created a free offline-first interactive course . It involves taking an online-only site to full offline-first glory. Many of the patterns in this article are used.
Hey. I decided to get a paid plan on Github and Paypal looked like a good payment option to me. Click the blue button here : This looks ...
I first fell in love with XSL in 1999, when Microsoft rolled an XSLT processor into MSXML. I got my hands on the works of Shakespeare marked up in XML
When I read about No CAPTCHA for the first time I was really excited. Did we finally find a better solution? Hashcash? Or what? Finally it...
Today I am going to publicly disclose a critical vulnerability I have found during my research in PayPal, This vulnerability enabled me to completely bypass the CSRF Prevention System implemented by PayPal, The vulnerability is patched very fast and PayPal paid me the maximum bounty they give ;).
A summary of common idioms and visual language found in Chinese smartphone apps.
Developing Opinions - A blog by Jimmy Breck-McKye
I made a very explicit, pragmatic design decision with afl-fuzz : for performance and reliability reasons, I did not want to get into stati...
AI fair value $183 vs ask $100 — fse.guru looks under-priced for a ultra-short .guru.
My first-ever open source contribution, a couple years ago, was to a project called Pygments. My motivation? GitHub was displaying Racket source code poorly. Pygments didn't have a Racket lexer. GitHub was using a Scheme lexer for Racket code. The Scheme ...
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
WebRTC is one of the most exciting things to happen to the Web in years: it has the potential to bring instant voice and video calling to anyone with a browser, finally unshackling us from propriet…
wingolog: article: generators in firefox now twenty-two times faster
