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Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
In September 2021, Cloudflare took the tech world by storm by announcing R2: a storage service accessible through the ubiquitous S3 API but that didn't charge any egress ("bandwidth") fees. You only pay for storage and read/write/delete requests. It was a major kick in the incumbents' balls who all…
Unleash your creativity with the full power and Python, without the hassle of learning a new templating language or dealing with its limitations!
Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it. Note: I communicated with the Bluesky team prior to the publishing of this post. While the functionality described is not the intended use of the application, it is known behavior and does not constitue…
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.
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
Discrepancies in how browsers and libraries handle HTTP cookies, and the problems caused by such things.
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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.
Can we build a reactive notebook in a single HTML file? Yes (by standing on the shoulders of Observable)
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?
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…
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…
*without doing much with it (and maybe not for long at its current growth rate)
Why cookie banners frustrate users, when EU device-access consent is required, and which narrow exemptions may apply to necessary and audience-measurement cookies.
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
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
Joel Gustafson
Building Surfgrad, a high-performant, WebGPU-powered autograd library
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…
Why backspaces sometimes don't work the way they should.
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…
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....
Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.
Deploy JavaScript apps globally with bunny.net's Edge Scripting. Instant scalability, seamless GitHub integration, and blazing-fast performance at the edge.
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?
In 2022 I started building an application for creating Customs declarations. After evaluating some options and writing code in various programming languages ...
