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20 Years of Blogging on my own website
I missed it, but last month I had my 20-year blogging anniversary. Let's recap a bit about how it started and how it went.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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Google Search's Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
Learn what you always wish you knew about Google's algorithms.
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WP21
It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it’s now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking Michel’…
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Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or message authentication code. The core idea is that whoever has the corresponding verification…
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Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that sentence is at best unclear and at worst nonsense. "Auth" can mean at least two things: authentication or authorization [1] . Which do we mean for an "auth system"? It's never perfectly clear and, unfortunately, we often mean…
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Old dogs, new CSS tricks
A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. One of the biggest barriers: we need to re-wire our own brains.
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Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.
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Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly
PHP currently powers [~75% of the websites](<https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php>) on the internet. It may not be the “sexy boi” of programm...
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Bluesky adds direct messages
You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.
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CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
This project is discontinued. The github repos are still available as archives, but no deployment is maintained and no PRs will be accepted. You can still join the Discord if you want but it is not active.
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What UI density means and how to design for it
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
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Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
By: Steven Bassett
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CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js
A vulnerability in PDF.js found by Codean Labs. PDF.js is a JavaScript-based PDF viewer maintained by Mozilla. This bug allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code as soon as a malicious PDF file is opened. This affects all Firefox users (
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The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that
As someone building a browser I need to parse a lot of URLs. Partially to validate them, but also to normalize them or get specific parts out of the URL. The URL API in browsers lets you do that, but it’s ergonomics aren’t ideal. The problem with new URL() The “new” in front of new […]
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A kids traffic mat in Elm
A wrap-up of several years of development and the alpha release of Liikennematto.
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Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas
It's here! 🥳 Today, we're excited to announce that WebGPU support has officially arrived in the PlayCanvas Editor.
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Swift sucks at web serving or does it?
A few weeks ago, Axel Roest published a simple web server comparison , that turned out to not be doing what it was thought to be doing. Figuring that out was a very interesting discussion that warrants a retrospective, to look at which parts were particularly helpful and which not so much.
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Merging Remix and React Router
We've been building a bridge from React Router to Remix, and we made it so good that we're going to merge the two projects.
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The Worst Website in the Entire World
The Worst Website In The Entire World is owned by Broadcom
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Firefox search update
Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla. To continue developing features and products that resonate with our users, we’re adopting a new a
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Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
Conventionally, email addresses published on webpages may be protected from email-harvesting spambots via various HTML, CSS & JS-based techniques. This alternative technique is SVG-based.
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English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search
Posted by Christian Plagemann, Director, and Katya Cox, Product Manager, Google Research Learning a language can open up new opportunities in a per...
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Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components
Learn about React 19 introducing support for web components and what that means for React developers and web component authors.
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Common Google XSS
A simple XSS in Google application
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Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)
The story of why and how I developed a tool for designing MDF furniture by writing my own little language that transpiles into a CSS grid layout.
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Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
Traefik got really popular over the last few years in the bubble of home-lab youtubers , that’s when I first heard about it.
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Time-Based CSS Animations
In my earlier post Time Uniform For CSS Animation, I took a note about a way to do CSS animations with time ticks instead of keyframes. It was limited applicable because CSS lacked the ability of doing complex Math calculations. After years of wait, CSS now has enough Math functions supported, particularly mod()…
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