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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,472 posts.
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lloyd.io - How BrowserID Works
lloyd.io is the personal website of Lloyd Hilaiel, a software engineer who lives in Denver, Colorado.
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Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen
UPDATE: The contractor/vendor that made the software commented on Hacker News ...
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Create a Game Character with HTML5 and JavaScript
William Malone: Part 1 in a journey in developing a game character.
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Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews
A confusing startup screen that offends existing subscribers dooms The Wall Street Journal's iPhone app to low ratings.
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Web Intents - the future of web apps
Web Intents is a new project designed to solve the problem of web application integration. Inspired by Android's intent system, it allows developers to build features without needing to integrate with every possible 3rd party service. Web Intents lets users choose their preferred service for actions like image editing…
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Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)
84 GUI icons created with CSS
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CSS3 Isometric text
not much at the moment
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Faster JavaScript parsing
Over the past year or so I’ve almost doubled the speed of SpiderMonkey’s JavaScript parser. I did this by speeding up both the scanner ( bug 564369 , bug 584595 , bug 588648 , bug 639420 , bug 645598 ) and the parser ( bug 637549 ). I used patch stacks in several of those bugs, and so in those six bugs I actually…
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A preview of Gmail’s new look
Posted by Jason Cornwell, User Experience Designer We get a lot of great feedback about how Gmail helps you be more efficient, keep in to...
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Django Advice
For the past year and a half or so I've been working full-time at Dumbwaiter Design doing Django development. I've picked up a bunch of useful tricks along the way that help me work, and I figured I'd share them.
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The Noob Guide to Online Marketing
“Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.” Harsh? Yes. Familiar? Definitely. Everything a Non-Marketer Needs to Take a…
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Designing GitHub for Mac
An analysis of my process.
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Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5
By Marcel Gordon, Product Manager, Swiffy Some Google projects really do start from one person hacking around. Last summer, an engineerin...
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The protocol-relative URL
Update 2014.12.17: Now that SSL is encouraged for everyone and doesn’t have performance concerns , this technique is now an anti-pattern . If the asset you need is available on SSL, then always use the https:// asset.
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Electronic Arts Hates Strong Passwords
EA does not allow passwords longer than 16 characters or passwords that contain symbols. However passwords like cool, pass and love are totally acceptable.