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Firefox 84.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,470 posts.
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Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform
After several intense months of work on such a significant change, the MDN Web Docs’ new platform (codenamed Yari) is finally launched!
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GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
If you hate it too this is why. Using color theory to show why GitHub dark mode is disappointing
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How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser
Lynx is a text based browser. You think the people who browse without JavaScript are weird? Lynx doesn't even do images or CSS! It downloads HTML and renders it at blazing fast speed. If you ever wondered just how slow modern web development has made the web - Lynx will show you the meaning of haste. I use Lynx most…
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Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
Brave News is accessible below the new tab page and is delivered anonymously to the user's browser via Brave's new private content delivery network.
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Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines
Brave is releasing a new version of our iOS browser in order to comply with recent stipulations made by Apple.
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Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier
Browser extensions claiming to protect against fingerprinting will typically result in more data available for fingerprinting.
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Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta
With hundreds of millions of people using over 250,000 items in the Chrome Web Store, extensions have become essential to how m...
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Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
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Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
The Google Cloud Console UI is a large JavaScript application. This article investigates how it could be sped up.
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Qt 6.0
Read about the latest Qt update — Qt 6.0. As Qt usage in embedded systems skyrocketed, it became time to improve the Qt platform.
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Bootstrap 5 Beta 1
With our first beta release of Bootstrap 5, we're calling it on new features and breaking changes. From here on out, we're only fine-tuning features, bugs, and…
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Why I Love Tailwind
Why Tailwind is blowing up, why I (the creator of styled-components) love it and how I avoid the downsides of atomic CSS.
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Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
✪ Update 2021-06-11 For WWDC 2021, Apple has posted an excellent video on EDR.
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Self-host your fonts for better performance
This browser caching change kills the utility of cross-site resource CDNs like Google Fonts.
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Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks
Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.
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Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
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What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020)
Better tooling, export maps and improvements to slots and context
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HTTP/2 Push is dead
One of the hot features that came with HTTP/2 was PUSH frames. The main idea is that if the server can predict what requests a client might want to make, the server can preemptively send request/response pairs to the client and warm its cache.
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I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
I'll try to leave the pulp in here and keep this as chronological as I can. In that spirit, no tweets were harmed in the making of this post.
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I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
My name is Erik, and I am a Dutch software developer. I also like to write fiction. One could say I spend a lot of time trying to capture the world in plain text. Source code for the small part of it that can be expressed in logical terms, stories for everything else.
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FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Microsoft FrontPage has its thorns, but don't discount the fact that those thorns are attached to a rose.
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hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
Discover how hCaptcha has become the largest independent CAPTCHA service and now runs on 15% of the internet.
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Ad block and you don't stop
Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files?