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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
Francesco Napoletano is a highly competent staff software engineer with 20+ years of experience developing a wide range of tools and applications for the web stack.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,470 posts.
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A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019)
I wrote a basic search m…
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The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they all show the before and after statically, side by
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Bookmarklets I Use
Hi, my name is Philipp! This is my personal website, where I write stuff with inconsistent frequency.
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Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution
A member of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in the popular Zoom video chatting application that could allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code on victims’ machines. Video conferencing software has skyrocketed in popularity during the COVID-19…
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The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
How does this keep happening? It is a mystery.
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Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.
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Analytics Without Google
Last week, I launched a personal project . A nice change that most definitely came from a desire to do something else during covid-19 lockdown. With that launch came a desire to have some level of analytics, I didn't need the full customer journey but I sure was curious how many people were using my site after I…
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Tor Browser 9.5
Tor Browser 9.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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Firefox 77
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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Web Vitals | Articles
Essential metrics for a healthy site
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Google Is Not God of the Web
Almost exactly two years ago, I warned that Google was on track to replace God of us all. Last month, The Verge's Dieter Bohn reported ...
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Godot Editor running in a web browser
Bringing the Godot Editor to the web: lowering the barrier for newcomers while enhancing the HTML5 export.
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A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles
I love mental models. They’re crucial to understanding complex systems, allowing us to intuitively grasp and solve complex problems.
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The Fastest Google Fonts
Google Fonts is fast. Now it’s faster. Much faster.
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Snowpack 2.0
Build web applications with less tooling and faster iteration.
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Rediscovering the Small Web
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is…
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Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5
Hi Nitromians, It has been a long time since we last posted on the blog so there is a lot to get through so settle in! Today�s big news is that we can finally tell you what we are doing to keep our flash games alive past the end of this year when flash will be removed from popular browsers.
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How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in JavaScript
If you are writing an application in Javascript, soon you will have to worry about memory leaks. But it is difficult to even know if a memory leak exists. This handy method can help.
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Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
If you are newly working or going to school from home, the remote approach can be a big shift in how to get things done. Firefox has a number of browser ex
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Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets
This is a story of a convoluted, not-very-useful method for extracting codez from unwitting JavaScript developers working on top secret…
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Better Box Shadows (CSS)
Hi, my name is Adam Ramirez. I am a UX Designer who focuses on Design Facilitation and Product Analytics with 10 years of experience under my belt. In the past 5 years, I have been working to deliver the best possible user experience to my clients and their users.
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Introducing Facebook Shops
We’re launching Facebook Shops and investing in features across our apps that inspire people to shop and make selling online easier.