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Ride down into JavaScript dependency hell
Find out how a single JS package can come with 19k dependencies.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 541 posts.
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You probably don't need PostGIS
PostGIS is a fantastic, battle-tested suite of GIS extensions for Postgres. It handles most aspects of it, and is widely used, for example in OpenStreetMap’s Mapnik. But for your project, it’s most likely overkill. In a Q and A fashion, let’s discuss reasons for (not) using it.
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Open-Source Virtual Background
With many of us around the globe under shelter in place due to COVID-19 video calls have become a lot more common. In particular, ZOOM has controversially become very popular. Arguably Zoom’s most interesting feature is the “ Virtual Background ” support which allows users to replace the background behind them in…
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Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs
Analyzing the little guys
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How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
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An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
Here’s a look at why you should remove Google Analytics from your website and help create a more open, independent web that’s more friendly to the visitors.
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Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail.
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The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web
A playbook for ethical engineering on the web.
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Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
Firefox 75 is chock full of handy new dev tooling: instant evaluation in the web console, event breakpoints for WebSockets, and more. New web platform features include HTML lazy loading ...
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Krustlet, the WebAssembly Kubelet
Announcing Krustlet
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Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dangerous
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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Things Markdown got wrong
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
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Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
Distinguished engineer Martin Thomson explains how this problem occurred, the implications for people who might be affected, and how problems of this nature might be avoided in future. To get ...
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Windows 10 Hosted App Model
In Windows 10 version 2004, we are introducing the concept of Hosted Apps to the Windows App Model. Hosted apps are registered as independent apps on Windows, but require a host process in order to run. An example would be a script file which requires its host (eg: Powershell or Python) to be installed. By
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Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes
UPDATE 5/28: We are going to resume the rollout with the stable release of Chrome M84. More details . With the stable release of Chrome 8...
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Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña
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Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS
A vulnerability in Safari allowed hackers to access the iPhone and Macbook cameras. (CVE-2020-3852, CVE-2020-3864, CVE-2020-3865, CVE-2020-3885, CVE-2020-3887 & CVE-2020-9784)
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Updates to form controls and focus
HTML form controls provide the backbone for much of the web's interactivity. They're easy for developers to use, have built-in accessibilit...
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Server-Side Only React with Next
You visit a seemingly simple website with little or no interactivity, yet somehow it sends you 2 MB of JavaScript to digest. You're half way down the article that you're reading and suddenly: client-side rendering kicks in, resets everything. You try to find your way back but the page is now janking around. Your…
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A Practical Guide to Memory Leaks in Node.js
Memory leaks are like parasites of an application, they creep up into your systems unnoticed and don't cause any harm initially, but once leaks are strong
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Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler
wingolog: article: firefox's low-latency webassembly compiler
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Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
AndreGarzia.com website
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WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days
Apple will delete your data if you don’t use an app for seven days. This effectively kills offline web apps.