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What happened to WebAssembly
Where are they now? You won't believe her new look!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 377 posts.
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Many hells of WebDAV
Standards are great, until they aren't
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Most websites don't need cookie consent banners
Learn why most websites don't need cookie consent banners and how privacy-first design can improve user experience while simplifying compliance with GDPR…
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Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
a tale about a young transgender intern
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Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
The current state of app bloat.
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GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
My little corner of the internet.
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Google broke my heart
For years, I thought of Google as a trustworthy helper on the Web. Especially where it mattered most, removing pirated copies of my books from Google...
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Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.
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CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)
Every time I hear someone complaining about how much CSS sucks, I have one question: Did you ever learn CSS? The words want to burst out of my lips but I stay silent and keep to myself. When I was muc
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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
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Cigarette smoke effect using shaders
Notes about creative coding on the Web.
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During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm.
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Web development is fun again
AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.
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Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
Wayland is the successor to the X server (X11, Xorg) to implement the graphics stack on Linux. The Wayland project was actually started in 2008, a year before I created the i3 tiling window manager for X11 in 2009 — but for the last 18 years (!), Wayland was never usable on my computers. I don’t want to be stuck on…
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A small collection of text-only websites
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is…
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A website to destroy all websites
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.