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A Guide to Twitter
We hope that this guide to Twitter will be useful to you, wherever you are in your Twitter journey.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 306 posts.
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Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
Over the years, I've accumulated quite a collection of websites, web applications, APIs, and other services that I've built and continue to host publicly. I've experimented with a lot of different hosting methods for them, switched between several different providers, and have finally arrived at something that I feel…
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
Without too much fanfares Sciter has officially transitioned from TIScript to JavaScript this week.
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How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?
LastPass accounts are under attack. I look into how user’s master passwords might have leaked.
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Why Web3?
Over the last month, there has been a ton of debate and conversation about web2 vs web3 with many leading voices raising doubts about web3. Debate and doubt are healthy. And web3 enthusiasts, particularly on Twitter, remind me of missionaries trying to recruit the unwashed to their belief system. Frankly, it is all…
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Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016)
I’m having a really weird browser issue, where scripts on some pages just won’t run until about 20 seconds have passed. Whatever you’re about to suggest, yes, I’ve thought of it, and no, it’s not the problem. I mention this not in the hope that someone will help me debug it, but because it’s made me acutely aware of a…
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You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in its place: nowhere!
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There's never been a better time to build websites
We're closing in on the end of 2021 and I'm as excited now about building websites as I've been in ~25 years.
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An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone
The last thing we want is for an advertising network to access the Camera or Microphone on our computer. But, while looking for something else, I stumbled upon messages in the Safari JavaScript console saying that an iframe loaded from safeframe.googlesyndication.com tried to do exactly that.
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An NFT without a blockchain
This is a small proof-of-concept. It relies on PGP - but you could use Keybase, GPG, or any other hard-to-use encryption program. Background Suppose you want to support an artist and give them money. That's easy. Most artists take PayPal, bank transfer, or cash. But how can you prove that you've paid an artist for a…
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Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Debugging memory leaks in web apps is hard. The tooling exists, but it’s complicated, cumbersome, and often doesn’t answer the simple question: Why is my app…
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The Third Web
(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.ccSatya has created an audio version of this essay. Eine deutsche Version findet sich hier. Una versione italiana di questo testo è qui – grazie Nebbia! En […]
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Introduction to WebAssembly Components
WebAssembly and WASI show great promise for the future of computing outside the browser, and the WebAssembly component model aims to improve the portability, cross-language, and composition story for Wasm. This article explains the goals of the component model, and showcases how to use tooling from the Bytecode…
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Authoring a SIMD enhanced WASM library with Rust
All the pieces have come together for widespread Wasm SIMD usage. The majority of browsers and Node 16 LTS support Wasm SIMD out of the box, and Rust recently learned how to compile Wasm intrinsics. Now I need to port a library from x86 SIMD to Wasm SIMD and distribute it in such a way that will fallback to a non-SIMD…
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Frickin' shaders with frickin' laser beams
Solve all your shader problems with this one weird trick.
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Right-to-Left Styling 101
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS
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Defensive CSS
A list of defensive CSS techniques to avoid potential future issues
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Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Issues with Cloudflare Images
Status: 5/9 fixed I’m a huge fan of the various Cloudflare offerings, and have been impressed time after time with the innovations and solutions offered by CF. This writeup therefore pains me, as I usually don’t have anything negative to say about CF, but after some months in production, and a severe lack of any…
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Chrome client “variations” can be used to identify you (2020)
Until now I used Chrome with a few settings tweak like disabling sending usage statistics, uBlock origin, no crash reports and so on.
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NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music
NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music
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Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes
Reverse-engineering the Spotify Wrapped API to understand how the year-in-review story is assembled from listening data and rendered client-side.
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An Inconsistent Truth: Next.js and Typesafety
Next.js is a great framework. The frontend and backend have never been closer. Can we bridge the remaining gap in a typesafe way?
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Glitch effect on text in pure CSS
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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WebGPU computations performance in comparison to WebGL
WebGPU – the successor of WebGL, a brand new API to utilize GPUs in the browser. It is promised to be available in regular Chrome in Q1 2022. In comparison to WebGL, WebGPU promises better performance and better compatibility with modern hardware, but the most recognizable feature of WebGPU is a special API for…
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Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination again. Unfortunately our choices are significantly fewer than…
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