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Supercharge Your Node.js with Rust
Dmitry Kudryavtsev is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in the industry, and a tech entrepreneur creating sustainable online business.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 573 posts.
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RSS is wonderful
Inspired by Web Rings from the 90s, I created a tool for serendipitous discovery of blogs called RSS Discovery Engine. Similar to how web rings work, I make the assumption that interesting blogs will tend to link to other related blogs, and therefore, linked blogs are likely to also be interesting.
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Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead
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We analyzed 425k favicons
The humble favicon was messily birthed with the pernicious IE5 release. Since that fateful day, browsers have slowly expanded favicon technology to encompass many wildly differing and lightly documented use cases. Here in 2021 favicons are found primarily in browser tabs, home screens, and Google search results, but…
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Android Apps on Windows 11
Windows is a platform for creators Windows is the most open platform on the planet for creators. Part of living our commitment to openness is welcoming partner technologies and content that deliver powerful experiences. And what makes Window
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New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web
If you run any large public-facing website or web application on the modern web, caching your static content in a CDN or other caching service is super...
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Google, Mozilla Close to Finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox Browse
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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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
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Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development
Nightmare scenario with the Javascript ecosystem mess
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Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer
We decided it was time to reinvest in the PDF viewer (PDF.js) and support filling PDF forms within Firefox to make our users' lives easier.
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The Single-Page-App Morality Play
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.
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How PHP Opcache Works
The opcache PHP extension implements various functionality to speed up PHP in a transparent manner. As the name indicates, its origin and primary purpose is opcode caching, but nowadays it also contains an optimizer and just-in-time compiler. However, this blog post will focus only on the opcode caching aspect.
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Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
Computers would be so much better if they never had to deal with users, amirite?!!? I remember, years ago, working on a mobile web service which had a URl bar - so users could tap in bbc.co.uk on their T9 keypads - and a separate search bar. I thought that was pretty nifty. But it turns out, users tried searching for…
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The Decline of Django
Let's face it, it’s not very exciting to be a Django developer today.
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How to win at CORS
The 'how' and 'why' of CORS, from start to finish.
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Why Vite
Next Generation Frontend Tooling
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Parcel v2
The Parcel team is beyond excited to announce that v2.0.0 stable is now available! 🎉
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?
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Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better
QR codes are now critical infrastructure here in NSW, Australia. Let's learn how to make them better.
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Getting to the bottom of web map performance
mostly 1990s PC gaming
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Why I built my own static site generator
I really wanted to get a personal blog up quickly, but the most popular static site generators either didn't fit my needs or did way too much.
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How Laravel Livewire works
<p>The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It’s as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works.</p> <p>A...
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Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)
One of the biggest surprises at WWDC last year was Apple’s announcement that its new map would cover “ the entire U.S. by the end of 2019 ”:
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Hacking YouTube with a MP4
Keyboard Warrior, Breaking software is just finding unintended features, right?
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The State of Web Scraping in 2021
Author: Mihai Avram | Date: 10/02/2021 The area of web scraping has really expanded in the last few years, and it helps to know some of the main frameworks, protocols, and etiquette so that you can…