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Can QML become the next standard for web UI?
Recently, I came across a few articles [1, 2, 3] comparing Qt’s modern UI framework – Qt Quick and its own declarative language QML to HTML, with QML coming out as a clear winner in sev…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,470 posts.
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Our Copyfish extension was stolen and adware-infested
News and tutorials on AI, Computer Vision, OCR, Anthropic Computer Use, LLM, and its applications in automating daily office tasks. In short: Robotic process automationation (RPA).
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Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
When I’ve started writing my stories on Medium it felt really good. Medium was the perfect "medium" to share your thoughts with all your followers. However in couple of years it changed a lot and I didn’t liked those changes. What were these? 1. Setting up a domain
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Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime
I recently blogged about discontinuing Positron. I’m trying a different tack with a new experiment, codenamed qbrt, that reuses an existing Gecko runtime (and its existing APIs) while simplifying t…
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Phoenix 1.3.0 Released
Phoenix 1.3.0 is out!
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Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web
Why hasn’t Apple added support for service workers in Safari for iOS? Could it be because it goes against their app store revenue model?
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JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Waze for Android Auto
The road is where most of us do our best thinking. The Waze blog is where we share ours.
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Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life
This morning, Adobe announced its roadmap to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020. Working with Adobe and other browser vendors, Mozilla has prepared a roadmap for Flash support ...
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Apollo Server 1.0 – GraphQL Server for Node.js Frameworks
Today, after more than a year of development, testing and production use, we’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of Apollo Server ! 🎉
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Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch
Stories, insights, and updates from the Poki team.
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Things to learn in React before using Redux
Facts about React that should be known before using Redux (or MobX). Most important: Learn React first, then opt-in Redux but only if you need it. There are various techniques in React.js for scaling your local state management. Only if these are not sufficient, use a library like Redux ...
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On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt
Last week I wrote about how Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS [https://www.troyhunt.com/life-is-about-to-get-harder-for-websites-without-https/]. Somewhere in the comments there, the discussion went off on a tangent about commercial CAs, the threat
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Firefox marketshare revisited
Why building a better browser doesn’t translate to a better marketshare I posted a couple weeks ago about Chrome effectively having won the browser wars. The market share observations in the blog p…
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Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
Google trends, Apple, Google Chrome and plenty of developers put a cross on Flash. In my opinion without Flash the current web tech stack might look different. Credentials I wrote my first line of code in ActionScript 2.0 it was 13 years ago and it was streamlined with the style of web. Big boom of
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Redesigning GitLab's navigation
After a series of research and brainstorming sessions, we are excited to share with the community our redesign of GitLab's navigation.
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Myspace lets you hijack any account just by knowing the person’s birthday
In April this year whilst roaming the plains of the wild world web, I stumbled across an old Myspace account of mine. Attempting to gain access and delete the account I discovered a business process so flawed it deserves its own place in history. I wrote to Myspace describing my
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MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell
v1.7.13, the latest, and probably the last release of our project…
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Rocket, Rust Web Framework, v0.3: Fairings, TLS, Private Cookies
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
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Babylon.js 3.0
Babylon.js is an open source framework that allows you to create stunning 3D experiences in your browser. Built with simplicity and performance in mind, it is the engine that fuels the Remix3D site or the Xbox Design Lab. Today, I’m thrilled to announce the availability of Babylon.js’s biggest version ever: Babylon.js…
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ClojureScript Is Not An Island: Integrating Node Modules
ClojureScript has had first class JavaScript interop since its initial release in 2011. Similarly to Clojure, embracing the host has always been an explicit goal. While the above is true from a syntax standpoint, integrating with external JavaScript libraries historically came at the cost of some manual work [ 1 ] (…