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Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 437 posts.
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What's Next for WebGPU
Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.
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Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work
Websites are riddled with timing oracles eager to divulge their innermost secrets. It's time we started listening to them. In this paper, I'll unleash novel attack concepts to coax out server secrets
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Handling cookies is a minefield
Discrepancies in how browsers and libraries handle HTTP cookies, and the problems caused by such things.
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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor
Recently, my team and I fixed an absolutely bizarre bug that only one person in the team could reproduce. And to make it even weirder, she was only able to reproduce the issue when using her work laptop at home; it worked fine with the same laptop in the office.
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Reactive HTML Notebooks
Can we build a reactive notebook in a single HTML file? Yes (by standing on the shoulders of Observable)
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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?
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The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app
Tony Alaribe challenges common myths about multi-page applications (MPAs) and explores how modern browser technologies can enable fast, interactive, and offline-capable web applications without relying on single-page application (SPA) frameworks. Alaribe discusses advancements in service workers, caching, and…
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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`
A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple colored CSS logo alongside the logos from JavaScript…
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Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo
*without doing much with it (and maybe not for long at its current growth rate)
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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
Why cookie banners frustrate users, when EU device-access consent is required, and which narrow exemptions may apply to necessary and audience-measurement cookies.
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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
Bad service in the subway? Transit's offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next
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Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
Joel Gustafson
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Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP
Building Surfgrad, a high-performant, WebGPU-powered autograd library
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How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for…
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An unusual Google Keyboard bug
Why backspaces sometimes don't work the way they should.
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Rails 8.0 Released
Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make…
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Kagi Translate
Today, we're introducing Kagi Translate. It's not revolutionary - it's simply a better translation service. Our combination of advanced language models and precise output selection delivers translations that surpass existing solutions, including Google Translate and DeepL....
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Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed
Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.
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Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge
Deploy JavaScript apps globally with bunny.net's Edge Scripting. Instant scalability, seamless GitHub integration, and blazing-fast performance at the edge.
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Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023)
The handling of widowed headings across pages in Apple Books is of particular concern. Since 1997, CSS has had properties to handle this, and yet browsers including Safari and Firefox still don’t support them – why not?
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Rewrite It in Rails
In 2022 I started building an application for creating Customs declarations. After evaluating some options and writing code in various programming languages ...
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ChatGPT Search
Get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources
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Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
Building software is hard. Oftentimes things that seem like they should be simple end up being way more complicated when you get into the details. ( OK, maybe this isn’t specific to software. )
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The Karma connection in Chrome Web Store
A bunch of malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store have hidden affiliate fraud functionality, collect users’ browsing profiles, or both. These extensions appear to be connected to the Karma shopping assistant, developed by Karma Shopping Ltd. which is not a small company.
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Thunderbird for Android Now Available
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!
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Insiders Stealing Instagram Usernames?
My computer on the net