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The world's smallest PNG
It takes 67 bytes to make one black pixel. How does it work?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 437 posts.
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Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay, but definitely doesn’t feel like a…
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The web just gets better with Interop 2024
The web is amazing.
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I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
Why did an IPFS+ENS websites pioneer like me moved his blog from IPFS to a regular server?
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Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades
Sometimes, improving your application CSS just takes a one-line upgrade or enhancement! Learn about 12 properties to start incorporating into your projects, and enjoy reducing technical debt, removing JavaScript, and scoring easy wins for user experience.
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In loving memory of square checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
There's a class of comment you often see when someone makes a popular thread on Mastodon/Twitter/Threads/etc., that you also see on videos that's basically "Why make a Twitter thread? This would be better as a blog post" or "Why make a video? This would be better as a blog post". But, these comments are often stronger…
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
With today's update, we are excited to announce that we have integrated Mixtral 8x7B as the default LLM in Leo, our privacy-preserving AI browser assistant.
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Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I'm not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I could do something I'm much better at; hacking the system!
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Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)
Late last year, I had an idea that’s been steadily brewing in my head. I’ve found myself with some free time recently (it coincided with vacation, go figure), and I’ve hacked together some proof-of-concept code. Whether or not it is actually proving the concept I’m not sure, but the results are somewhat interesting…
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Tailwind Isn't for Me
I think the folks building Tailwind are talented and nice people. But at a pure technical level, I simply don’t like Tailwind. Whoever it was built for, it was not built for me.
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Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
In September 2023, Safari 17.0 on macOS shipped a small but interesting change to the <select> element.
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I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
Since I haven't published anything in almost two months, let me jot down one thought that has come to mind frequently over the past few months.
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Ruby on Rails load testing habits
Here are the techniques I've acquired over more than 10 years of regular load testing.
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Chrome experimental AI features
Three experimental generative AI features are coming to Chrome on Macs and Windows PCs to make browsing easier and more personalized.
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Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky choose not to use a peer-to-peer network when designing the AT Protocol?
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Lowercase letters save data
Lowercase letters and uppercase letters use the same amout of data — 1 byte each.
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New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualiz…
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WebGPU is now available on Android
Support WebGPU on Android, use of DXC for shader compilation, timestamp queries in compute and render passes, default entry points to shader modules, support display-p3 as GPUExternalTexture color space, memory heaps info, and more.
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Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
Web Components are a set of browser APIs that allow us to create custom HTML elements. They are one of the major things that SPA (Single Page Application) frameworks have been giving us for a long time ... HTMX is highly interesting, useful and a promising technology. It simplifies many things and allows us to build…
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Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome
Discover our solutions for how to consistently automate browser testing and improve application performance.
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Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
It's no secret that authenticating into services is an unresolved topic. With time, we have managed
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Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do…2024259 points72 commentsSoftware Engineering details
Hey! I'm Vasiliy Ermolovich or @nashby. Here you'll find some blog posts I write once per 10 years
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Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
Articles and programs by Elias Naur
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Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud
Link fraud is increasingly undermining trust in major online platforms, including Google, Bing, and X (Twitter).
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Ruffle: 2023 in Review
It's been a very busy 2023 for Ruffle, so much so that we didn't find the time to write a new progress report with everything going on! Let's fix that!
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Exposed RSS
I get sites not having an “RSS” for “Feed” link on their website while actually having an RSS feed. I don’t like it, but I get it. Maybe they picked an off-the-shelf t…