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Thunderbird for iOS
The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app, building natively from scratch.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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AWS Lambda Web Functions
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.
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Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
This was posted in the TIL section, the low-effort section of my website where I post things that I find useful, but that don't get the full quality checks content elsewhere on this site does.
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A Modern Web App in C
A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.
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Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
Over the last several months I have been tracking AI guys trying to create vibe coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe’s apps which have always been the most pirated apps since the 90s. There are now about a dozen vibe coded attempts to clone Photoshop and some other Adobe apps, not incl
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Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
I’ve done a lot of web development over the years. I started around the year 2000, just after PHP 3.0 was released and started taking over the web world. I’ve used all kinds of approaches for generating HTML: raw PHP, string concatenation in Python, Smarty templates in PHP, Template Toolkit in Perl, and Jinja/Django…
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Fingerprints are the new cookies
Now open it on your phone or some other device and your nickname will be different and just as consistent.
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Passkeys are a trap
Intended audience: non-technical citizens of the web
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I guess I'm using WebP now?
After using the same few image formats for 20+ years, I’m now on the WebP bandwagon. That isn’t something I thought I’d ever say. Now I’m wondering how soon it’ll be before I can use a couple more.
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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.
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Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
The one where I go crawling back.
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Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Floréal Technologies: Open software, French touch, International reach.
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Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and more capable.
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The death of web development education
Rescuing a field from disappearing
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Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests
Repository bez by burrito.space on Tangled.
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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
The real difference between texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering on the GPU: how each works, where each breaks, and when to use which.
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How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
A tale about how coding agents are actually making me more and more interested in design
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The new Firefox design is here
What comes to mind when you think of Firefox? Is it our best-in-class privacy features and ad blocking capabilities? Our partnerships with Wrexham, NVIDIA
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I switched to Brave
I've been using Brave for a couple months now after using Firefox for around 25 years. I think Brave will be a permanent change.
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Tells of a Slop UI
AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for
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What About Rails?
DHH's opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.
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We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache when the variation is too unpredictable.
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SAML: A fractal of bad design
SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to signature wrapping attacks and parser differentials that persist despite decades of awareness…
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Markdown in /src
In this essay, Carson Gross argues that Markdown is now an important source artifact for software systems built with LLMs, and that, following the principle of locality, it should live in /src, alongside the code it produces.
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Python Workers are now generally available
Python Workers allow developers to run Python web frameworks and AI orchestration libraries natively in the Cloudflare Workers runtime. You can seamlessly integrate with Cloudflare's ecosystem including D1, R2, and Workers AI without writing any JavaScript glue code.
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I don't like passkeys
Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.
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One year of sponsored Servo development
Looking back on Servo's first donation-funded role.