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Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.
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Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.
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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
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Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
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Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps
System composition and other interfaces for Biff projects
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CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document…
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Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses
Bear with me, because some of these "lies" are going to feel obvious, or like unimportant trivia. In all honesty, that's not that far from the truth. However, I hope you'll let me try to build a detailed and fun illustration showing how something as mundane as email can break our expectations in surprising ways.
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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
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VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
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Angular v22
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of Angular v22. We continue to be proud of the work we do with each release. Our goal is to…
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The advertising cartel coming to your web browser
The three companies (along with Mozilla, which is on one of their “ad features in the browser” kicks again) are drawing up a built-in advertising measurement system, called Attribution Level 1 , as a standard feature of web browsers. The system is intended to measure the effectiveness of advertising by enabling…
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CSS-Native Parallax Effect
A parallax effect built entirely in CSS with scroll-driven animations, no scroll listeners required.
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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their "Verify you're human" device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser . Preventing access to quite few websites ( previously , but it even went worse lately). Turns out it's because Cloudflare wants to have a fingerprint of your device…
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Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?
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On The <dl> (2021)
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
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A Forth-inspired language for writing websites
I don't remember where the idea came from, but I decided that it would be cool if I could write websites using a stack-based language. Something like this: : h1 ( s -- ) "<h1>" emit . "</h1>" em…
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Deno 2.8
`import defer`, six new subcommands (`deno transpile`, `deno pack`, `deno bump-version`, `deno ci`, `deno why`, `deno audit fix`), network debugging in Chrome DevTools, framework-aware `deno compile`, and 3.66x faster cold npm installs.
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Vivaldi 8.0
More than thirteen years in, and I am still as excited about building this browser as I was on day one. Maybe more. That excitement comes from a genuine belief that the people who use Vivaldi deserve…
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Google Declaring War on the Web
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the…
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Saying goodbye to asm.js
Disabling asm.js optimizations in SpiderMonkey
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Google changes its search box
We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the best of a search engine with the best of AI.
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Native all the way, until you need text
Why building a rich, selectable, streaming Markdown chat UI on macOS still pushes you toward WebKit or Electron.
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HTML Lists
This second installment in the "You don't know HTML" series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together
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My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs
In which I revisit one of my favorite bugs, the invalid surrogate pair.
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GitHub is sinking
The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat.
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I’ve banned query strings
I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs. Still less do I like people adding tracking stuff to my URLs.
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Forking the Web
This document contains a set of informal notes on how to build an alternative specification to the Web, in such a way that hopefully prevents many of its drawbacks while still preserves many of the good points. This document is not an specification, and is therefore subject to change over time.
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All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech
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