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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 499 posts.
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The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know
I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know…
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Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot
Google is killing a decade of its shortened links. Will you enlist in the fight against link rot?
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The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown
Custom Elements are basically Markdown for HTML
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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles
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Building Bluesky comments for my blog
I hate disqus too much.
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Infinite Pixels
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
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Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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Litestar is worth a look
A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation …
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Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in…
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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
Matyáš Racek's blog
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Apache ECharts 6
Twelve years ago, ECharts was first released on GitHub, planting the seed for an open-source journey.
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Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager
You reset your passkey the same way you reset your password. But you’ll find that passkeys make it harder to switch between password…
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How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
This post explains our recent effort to improve JSON.stringify performance
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Window Activation
You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an application to bring its window to the front, it…
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Modern Node.js Patterns
Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience.
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Self-Signed JWTs
An auth scheme where you let yourself in.
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Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved
While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links.We un…
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URL-Driven State in HTMX
Build stateful HTMX applications using URL parameters as your state store, creating naturally bookmarkable and shareable interfaces
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The Useless UseCallback
Why most memoization is downright useless...
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Sign in with Google in Chrome
Many websites such as Yelp show an annoying “Sign in with Google” banner when you visit.
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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others , that’s why they call them…
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The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts...
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Do not download the app, use the website
The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. You couldn't walk past a row of cubicles without hearing a manager cough "Mobile-first", much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest
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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
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Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
Every UI block in Tailwind Plus is now fully functional, accessible, and interactive, even if you don't use a framework like React or Vue.
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Animated Cursors
Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor
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Never write your own date parsing library
Never write your own date parsing library. Never. No exceptions. Never have I ever… So… I’ve written my own date parsing library. Why? Our story begins seven…
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Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)
Deep-diving on the load performance of F1 websites.