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Non-Consensual Personalization
Illustration from unDraw I want to personalize things I use. I want to change the settings. I want to change the colors, the desi...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView
Debut of LiveBeats social music app.
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Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage
On January 13th 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox.
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The complicated futility of WordPress
The challenges of working in opposition to the world's larget blogging platform.
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Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN
At Mozilla, online privacy has always been one of our top priorities. Recently we announced Total Cookie Protection on Firefox Focus to combat cross-site t
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WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
We made a server-less virtual Linux environment that runs unmodified Debian binaries in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization platform. Feel free to play with it and report bugs: https://webvm.io
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The web starts on page four
After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the whole, we lost an amazing opportunity. In its place we have a consumption machine that creates bubbles and assumes new…
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Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
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Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up
“Why can’t we just write this code once and have it just work across Web, Android and iOS?” As a mobile engineer who has spent both a significant portion of his career copying the exact same product from iOS to Android, I’ve asked myself this question many times.
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Pay attention to WebAssembly
Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.
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Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
I'm Left Handed is a blog mostly about technology.
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Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)
Caddy can not only serve files fast and safely. It can also generate static files from markdown, so you dont need a generator.
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
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In defence of the boring web
Having recently had the pleasure of doing most of my internet interactions on a tablet or a smartphone because my laptop was ‘hors de combat,’ I was able to further reflect on the state of the modern web. 1 With Web 2.0 being already passé, Web 3.0 being not the latest fad any more, and talks of Web 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0…
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Request bodies in GET requests
12 years ago I asked on Stack Overflow: Are HTTP GET requests allowed to have request bodies? . This got a 2626 upvotes and a whopping 1.6 million views, so clearly it’s something lots of people are still curious about, and in some cases disagree with the accepted answer.
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How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts
One of the biggest causes of layout shifts for my clients is late-loading web fonts, let's look at how to optimise them!
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Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation
In this post, we want to share a little bit of Tor Browser history with you, the origins of our features and designs, and how many of our innovative privacy and security features have been adopted by other browsers.
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Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly
The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.
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The baseline for web development in 2022
TL;DR:The baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in terms of W...
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Google rewrites many page titles
Because titles are typically the first things users see in Google results, titles can have a large impact on click-through rates and the number of vis
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Hacking the Apple Webcam (Again)
$100,500 Apple Bug Bounty for hacking the webcam via a Safari Universal Cross-Site Scripting (UXSS) bug. CVE-2021-30861, CVE-2021-30975
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Store SQLite in Cloudflare Durable Objects
This is my journey of creating a proof-of-concept of persisting an SQLite database in a Cloudflare Durable Object. It is not meant as a tutorial, but rather as something I myself can get back to it, to revisit what and why I did certain things.
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Gemini is a little gem
AndreGarzia.com website
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Gemini is Solutionism
While I don’t care too much about ideas and projects that I believe to be dead ends or maybe even doomed to fail eventually, a recent interaction on Superhighway84 got me to write down a few thoughts on why I believe Project Gemini is a really bad idea.
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Click and Swap, our alternative to Drag and Drop
At Contentsquare, we gather hundreds of metrics about user interactions on the websites of our customers. Having all this information can easily become cumbersome and hard to exploit. To make user…