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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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An interactive guide to SVG paths
An interactive guide to understanding SVG paths and path commands.
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JavaScript Gom Jabbar
What's inside that package.json? Pain.
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Beyond Markdown (2018)
John MacFarlane
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The problem with federated web apps
Trying to make web applications federated is a popular effort. Examples include things like the “fediverse”, as well as various other efforts, like attempts to make distributed software forges, and so on. However, all of these efforts suffer from a problem which is fundamental in building federated applications built…
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In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change
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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CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Atom feed format was born 20 years ago
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the effort that became the Atom feed format. It all began on June 16, 2003,
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Wayland is pretty good
I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.
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Future CSS: State Container Queries
An early look at CSS state queries.
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Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor
Hello friends!
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Flashing elements alienate users
Warning: This post might give vulnerable people new sensory sensitivities
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Text rendering hates you (2019)
Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text “perfectly”. It’s all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others.
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Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
My most popular article about Google - breakthrough in gms
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Upload a Godot HTML5 Game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions
Automatically upload your Android Godot game to itch.io with Github Actions godot-html-export and itchio-butler-upload
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XML is the future
Okay, campers, rise and shine...
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Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed
The distributed social network Mastodon has grown to 12.8 million user accounts, supporting itself through user
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Real-time messaging
Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary orbits, and that those signals are then beamed down to the entire North American subcontinent? Satellite radios today serve hundreds of channels across 9,540,000 square miles. Unless you’re working at a…
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RSS Autodiscovery (2006)
RSS autodiscovery is a technique that makes it possible for browsers and other software to automatically find a site's RSS feed, whether it's in RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 format.
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Svelte 4
Updated performance, developer experience, and site
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Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?
Achieve engineered efficiency, uncompromising quality, and long-term stability with our software solutions. We optimize your processes, ensure resilience, and support your growth—so you can focus on what matters most.
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Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney
“🔄 Update: after posting this on HN, some commenters provided Stable Diffusion and Midjourney results as well which are now included.” In the recent Photoshop Betas, users are now able...
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Style your RSS feed
How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.
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The Federated App Problem
Federated applications have a few problems. And I really wish it weren’t the case, I love the idea and philosophy of these applications. But I can’t see them being mass adopted.
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MVC Isn’t MVC
In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphica…
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Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”
Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome!
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