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Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by Cloudflare
Any website can use a simple API to replace CAPTCHAs with our invisible alternative, whether they’re on the Cloudflare network or not.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 596 posts.
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Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons
Except me. As of one minute ago I confirmed what I noticed last Wednesday. According to the all seeing Google, on the entire world wide web there are but three Creative Commons licensed images of a…
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Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
We talk a lot about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in the context of mobile devices, but they have an enormous potential on desktop operating systems that's only beginning to materialize. Recently, with many new web capabilities in the Chromium browser
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Experimenting a new syntax to write SVG
It's been a while since I introduced a new syntax to the css-doodle project to solve my own problems. While I'm not sure it would be useful elsewhere, I need to make some notes before I forget the details.
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Isolates, microVMs, and WebAssembly
I’ve been thinking about WebAssembly a lot lately.
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Katakana, Hiragana, and Unicode
How the 46 kana letters map onto 80 Unicode code points and how katakana and hiragana compare.
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Get in zoomer, we're saving React
Looking back, and forward
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Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers
Vivaldi comes with its own built-in Ad and Tracker Blocker, tons of customization options, a built-in Mail and Calendar, and more. Will it follow Google’s strict reliance on Manifest V3?
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The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web
Last week my mother died. After we put her urn into the ground next to my father’s we went back to their flat to talk about next steps and dividing up their belongings amongst us three children. One thing I immediately called dibs on were my father’s two books.
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Will serving real HTML content make a website faster?
In this post, we run WebPageTest Pro Experiments on several popular websites to see how serving more meaningful HTML will impact their upfront performance.
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Backend for Front-end
In the good old days, applications were simple. A browser sent a request to a webapp endpoint; the latter fetched data from a database and returned the response. The rise of mobile clients and integrations with other apps upset this simplicity. I want to discuss one solution to handle the complexity in this post. The…
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React I love you, but you're bringing me down
We've come a long, long way together. You changed. Where do we go from here?
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Cache your CORS
CORS is a necessity for many APIs, but basic configurations can create a huge number of extra requests, slowing down every browser API client, and sending...
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How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn the best hands-on techniques to bypass Cloudflare Bot Management. Understand how it works, its sensor data, and evade detection.
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TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps
This is a reverse chronological list of the major TinyBase releases, with highlighted features.
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Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
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Malvertising on Microsoft Edge's news feed pushes tech support scams
While Google Chrome still dominates as the top browser, Microsoft Edge, which is based on the Chromium source code, is gradually gaining more...
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The number input is the worst input
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
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“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast
I don't care about cookies has been acquired by Avast and remains free to use.
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Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
We’re excited to roll out a new way to help your community server hold organized, meaningful conversations without drowning each other out: Forum Channels.
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Color fonts on Google Fonts
Discover the first batch of color fonts on Google Fonts. Customize color palettes, add gradients, and more with COLRv1.
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
This post describes the Ladybird browser, based on the LibWeb and LibJS engines from SerenityOS.
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Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite
WordPress can be (and is) used for any kind of site, regardless of size or complexity. Some common use-cases include: Single-page landing sitesSimple company sites with just a few pages. These site…
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Shortest URLs on the Internet
What’s the shortest URL for which content is served on the internet? There are quite a few single-letter second-level domains that are used in very short URLs, such as Google’s http://g.co or Facebook’s https://m.me. But we can go shorter than this: there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at…
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What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?
I'm concerned about the longevity of the domains I register. I want my domains to be available for as long as possible. But it seems that every year prices rise - and the discount often provided for a new domain rarely continues into subsequent years. So I recently started renewing them for as long as possible. It…
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Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution.
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Fresh 1.1 – Automatic JSX, plugins, DevTools, and more
This release makes Fresh even more powerful with automatic JSX, plugins, DevTools integration and more.