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Firefox is an open source, private browser, one of the few mainstream browsers that supports extensions on mobile (Android) as powerful as the desktop ones (A lot of extensions have been ported), with seamless sync and a customizable homepage.
Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.
iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.
For approximately six hours on 25.9.2025, the entire statichost.eu domain was flagged as deceptive by Google Safe Search. This meant that anyone using Google Safe Search was shown a very aggressive warning or outright blocked when trying to access any site on the statichost.eu domain. In some cases even custom domains…
In 2022, David Guillot delivered an inspiring DjangoCon Europe talk , showcasing a web app that looked and felt as dynamic as a React app. Yet he and his team had done something bold. They converted it from React to HTMX , cutting their codebase by almost 70% while significantly improving its capabilities.
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…
The five most popular JS frameworks – Angular, React, Vue, Svelte and Blazor – use different rendering strategies, and it shows.
More than a feed reader, a content curation system to find the top articles of all sources
What is a Banana Curving Machine? Well it's a fantastic apparatus that does what it says. Curves Bananas.
A friend called me last week. Someone who’d built web applications back for a long time before moving exclusively to backend and infra work. He’d just opened a modern React codebase for the first time in over a decade.
From handles to hosting.
A comprehensive daily press review with global news. Fully private, with sources openly curated by our community. News is broken. We all know it, but we've somehow accepted it as inevitable. The endless notifications. The clickbait...
Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
Auth.js, formerly known as NextAuth.js, is now being maintained and overseen by Better Auth team
The protocol is the API.
Servo’s biggest month by far, with everything from IndexedDB improvements to favicons in servoshell.
Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones. Their parents thought they w...
With AI workloads on the rise, the demand for Python support on WebAssembly on the Edge has grown rapidly. However, bringing Python to WebAssembly isn'...
Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
We’re expanding the ability to edit your images by simply asking in Google Photos to Android devices.
How MCP authentication flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and more.
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
Offline-first apps promise instant loading and privacy, but in practice, very few apps get offline support because getting sync right is surprisingly hard.
Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.
HN should be treated as an external comment section for the internet to the extent that it can’t substitute for the internet, much less for your own thinking. At its best, HN is a map to new questions and a window onto new angles. The landscape itself remains elsewhere.
How building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it
At WWDC 2018, Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi asked, “Are you merging iOS and macOS?” This rhetorical question was presumably in response to widespread criticism. Federighi's rhetorical answer was, “No. Of course not.”
Google Chrome is getting upgraded with the latest AI to make it safer, smarter and more useful
Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.
