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Performant Front-End Architecture
Make your client-side apps load fast and provide a good user experience.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 541 posts.
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Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's ...
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Single div Sierpinski triangle
Today I found another way to draw the Sierpinski triangle using pure CSS.
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Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything
Polymath is a markup language for aesthetically presenting a wide variety of information including text, mathematics, programming, photos, videos, and more.
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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android
By Liwei Guo, Vivian Li, Julie Beckley, Venkatesh Selvaraj, and Jeff Watts
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Microsoft's Three Browsers
It’s an interesting time. Microsoft now maintains three different web browsers: Internet Explorer 11Microsoft Edge Legacy (Spartan, v18 and below)Chromium-based Microsoft Edge (v79+) If you&#…
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Old CSS, New CSS
I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with. I’ve been taking for…
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Apple’s New Map, Expansion #7: Final Parts of the Continental U.S.
On January 30th, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to the remaining parts of the Continental U.S. , including Alaska and the Central and Southeastern U.S.:
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Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
The newly redesigned Apple Maps was built from the ground up to let users in the US more easily navigate and explore the world.
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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
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De-Anonymization via Clickjacking in 2019
This blog post is about my journey to understand the current practice of de-anonymization via the clickjacking technique whereby a malicious website is able to uncover the identity of a visitor, including his full name and possibly other personal information. I don’t present any new information here that isn’t already…
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How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?
Link to: https://benpackard.github.io/blog/2020-01-28-sign-in-with-apple/
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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Discover why personal websites are the backbone of the independent web. Learn how to build, connect, and maintain your own space on the internet.
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Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
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The Era of the Trident Engine
About the rise and fall of Microsoft's take on the web.
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Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
Rough.js is a light weight javascript library that lets you draw graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.
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Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web
Dataset Search launches publicly with an index of 25 million datasets, helping scientists, journalists, students, data geeks to find data.
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Web of Documents (2019)
It was called Xanadu . It was a grand, holistic vision: of documents that, once published, are available basically forever; of bidirectional links that could glue together not just documents, but parts thereof; of managing copyright and royalties. It was complex. And it never really came to fruition.
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Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
In 2020, with better alternatives available, using Google Analytics (GA) to track your web usage is n...
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Retiring Internet Explorer
Prelude In late 2004, I was the Program Manager for Microsoft’s clipart website, delivering a million pieces of clipart to Microsoft Office customers every day. It was great fun. But there wa…
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How is search so bad? A case study
Personal site for Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer - Svilen Todorov
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