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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,470 posts.
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Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
We added a paywall to Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com/], our video editing startup, two weeks ago. But to help ease the transition, we allowed users to skip the paywall if they wrote an good reason for why they couldn't pay. In this post, I'll share some of the apologies
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Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView
Recently Slack on the desktop has been going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of flailing limbs and pitch squeaks, ours has manifested in ways rather more grim: inexplicably failing to render content, reloading during common operations, and error screens that aren’t actionable. The only silver lining has been…
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How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS
I wrote a todo app. Unlike TodoMVC (where I took the design from) it doesn’t use JavaScript and instead all interactions are driven by CSS.
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
Open Source Freelancer
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Firefox takes a bite out of the canvas ‘super cookie’
The Sophos Blog
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The meaning of AMP
Google’s alternative facts.
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Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets
Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less…
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Hacker News for Hackers
Hacker News is one of the best sources for news in the intersection of technology and business. Hacker News gets nearly 1000 submissions on a busy weekday, and quite a bit less on the weekends:
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Apollo Client 2.0
Apollo Client is the ultra-flexible, community-driven GraphQL client for React, Vue.js, Angular, and other JavaScript platforms. You just describe your data requirements with a GraphQL query, and Apollo Client fetches and manages the data for you.
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Gmail Launches Add-ons
New Gmail Add-ons to help you speed up your workflows at work.
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Saying Goodbye to Firebug
The most popular and powerful web development tool. Firebug has been a phenomenal success. Over its 12-year lifespan, the open source tool developed a near cult following among web developers. ...
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Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification
A while back I wrote an OSS Spotlight post about the Swagger project. In short, Swagger is “the world’s most popular API tooling”. It’s a powerful open source framework back…
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Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly
Exciting! Firefox is now providing simple and chic interfaces for representing, setting and picking a time or date on Nightly. Various content attributes defined in the HTML standard, such as ...
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How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx
How to score a perfect 100/100 on Google PageSpeed with a Middleman static site behind Nginx.
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Bootstrap 4 Beta 2
Just over two months ago we shipped our first beta for Bootstrap 4, and now we're ready to share our second with you. We've improved customization…
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The “Happy Path” to HTTPS
It's finally time: it's time the pendulum swings further towards the "secure by default" end of the scale than what it ever has before. At least insofar as securing web traffic goes because as of this week's Chrome 62's launch, any website with an input box
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Browser security beyond sandboxing
Read the latest about Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, and find helpful solutions from the digital security experts at Microsoft Security Blog.
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Documenting the Web together
Today, we’re excited to share some big news for developers around the world wide web: We’re committing our resources towards making MDN Web Docs the best place to go for web API reference. To kick things off, today we started redirecting over 7,700 MSDN pages to corresponding topics in the MDN web docs library powered