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The New iPad Mini
If you want a device that is bigger than a phone, but smaller and more holdable than a laptop-screen-sized thing for reading and just walking around with, the iPad Mini is it.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 540 posts.
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So you want your app/website to work in China
Updated 2021-06-10
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Repl.it GFX: Native graphics development in the browser
At Repl.it we live and breathe making software creation easier. With our programming environment, you could start coding in your favorite language in seconds. With live deployments, we made web hosting a breeze. With Multiplayer, we've removed the drudgery from coding with friends. And today, we're excited to bring…
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80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
Today, PHP is used by more than 80% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Popular websites such as Slack, Etsy, Cloudflare,
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React Router v5
React Corporate Workshops, Training, and Consulting
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Preload, prefetch and other link tags
There’re lots of ways to improve web performance (see Web Performance 101 for a full overview). One of those ways is to preload content you’ll need later in advance. Prefetch a CSS file, prerender a full page, or resolve a domain ahead of time – and you won’t have to wait for it when it’s actually needed! Sounds cool.
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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
Almost a hundred years ago, John Maynard Keynes suggested that the industrial revolution would effectively end work for humans within a couple of generatio
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Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019
Cloud-Native Full-Stack Software Engineer and Solutions Architect
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Figma is powered by WebAssembly
Because our product is written in C++, which can easily be compiled into WebAssembly, Figma is a perfect demonstration of this new format’s power.
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Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1
Since the introduction of the Nvidia RTX graphics cards last summer, ray tracing is back again. In the last months, my Twitter feed flooded with a continuous stream of RTX On / RTX Off comparisons. After seeing so many nice
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RFC8482 – Saying Goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it was special.
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Fast, Bump-Allocated Virtual Doms with Rust and Wasm
Dodrio is a new virtual DOM library that is designed to leverage the strengths of both Wasm’s linear memory and Rust’s low-level control by making extensive use of fast bump ...
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Roll Your Own Analytics
How to build a free, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
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Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads
Disclaimer: The events depicted in this story are purely factual and described to the best of my memory. Prelude Many years ago, in the City of London… The Expedia empire reigns. Having conqu…
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Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
This will be short, ranty and to the point: these warnings are getting ridiculous: I know, tell you something you don't know! The whole ugly issue reared its head again on the weekend courtesy of the story in this tweet: > I’m not sure if this makes it better
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Why to normalize Unicode strings
Never heard of Unicode normalization? You’re not alone. But it will save you a lot of trouble.
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JIT-Less V8
V8 v7.4 supports JavaScript execution without allocating executable memory at runtime.
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The Web We Broke
I read something depressing last Monday, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
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On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
Safari 11 was the first Safari version to support WebRTC.
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Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
At Mozilla, we are always committed to people’s security and privacy. It’s part of our long-standing Mozilla Manifesto. We are continually looking for
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Better web video with AV1 codec
Learn to use AV1 to make videos on your website smaller and better quality. CLI instructions and cross-browser tricks.
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A Front End Does Not Have to Be Rich
Discover Apress’ practical, expert content to help technology professionals boost skills, solve challenges, and advance their careers.
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A guide to useEffect in React
Effects are a part of your data flow.
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MathML in Chromium
A joint effort to add native MathML-Core support to web browsers.
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Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive
The latest tutorials, best practices, insights and customer stories on the Lob APIs, direct mail, and address verification.
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Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
Google purchased Picasa, a super efficient photo editor that offered seamless integration with online publishing (e.g., you add a photo to an album on your desktop computer and […]