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My Custom CSS Reset
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 573 posts.
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Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)
I wrote two posts on the topic of WebKit font smoothing before, but unfortunately the situation has grown worse since then. In allowing the designer to pick their own font smoothing mode with the -webkit-font-smoothing CSS property, WebKit developers have opened up an opportunity for typographic abuse, namely, the…
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How JavaScript engines achieve great performance
Ever wondered what browsers do to get JavaScript to execute quickly? Let’s take a look.
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Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
Building a modern front end in Django without reaching for a full-blown JavaScript framework. Choosing the right tools for the job, and bringing them into your project.
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Why IndexedDB is slow and what to use instead
Struggling with IndexedDB performance? Discover hidden bottlenecks, advanced tuning techniques, and next-gen storage like the File System Access API.
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HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination
In this essay, Carson Gross explores HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), explaining how it enables REST APIs through hypermedia responses and contrasting it with modern JSON-based APIs. Using clear HTML examples, Carson demonstrates how HATEOAS allows clients to discover available actions…
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SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software. have developed a tool that will increase protections for users’ private data while they browse the web.
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Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Nov. 22, 2021
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Native-like Navigation of Web apps
Native-like Navigation for Web apps
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Rust programming for web developers, by a web developer
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
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Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
Overview of different techniques to implement comments using a static site generator.
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Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed security features
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
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Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser
Brave Wallet is a secure crypto wallet, built right into the Brave privacy browser. No extension required.
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To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM
Force Microsoft Edge to open a truly blank new tab page using a Windows Registry tweak when the built-in customization options fall short.
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Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Websites should not use dithered images
Despite claims that dithered images will reduce your image's file size, there are much better ways to compress your website's images.
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Sorry Safari Team
I sincerely apologize to the Safari team for misrepresenting their compatibility score in our Chrome Dev Summit presentation. Due to a combination of personal circumstances, a reliance on outdated Safari Tech Preview data from wpt.fyi, and the rush leading up to the event, we displayed an incorrect improvement score…
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OAuth with Cloudflare workers on a statically generated site
An article on implementing OAuth user registration for a newsletter on a statically generated site using Cloudflare workers.
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Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)
In a world with tools like NPM that are supposed to make websites fast why have they gotten so slow?
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Spotify Codes – Part 2
In part 1 I dove into Spotify Codes and explained the general technical concepts of how they work. If you haven’t read that post you should check it out. I shared it on reddit where it generated a lot of interesting discussion. Ludvig Strigeus, a key early developer at Spotify and the person who invented Spotify…
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Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure
Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?
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You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
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Practical HTTP Header Smuggling: Sneaking Past Reverse Proxies to Attack AWS
Modern web applications typically rely on chains of multiple servers, which forward HTTP requests to one another. The attack surface created by this forwarding is increasingly receiving more attention, including the recent popularisation of cache poisoning...
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Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)
Gmail's loading progress bar doesn't *actually* measure the progress of loading.