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The State of Web Scraping in 2021
Author: Mihai Avram | Date: 10/02/2021 The area of web scraping has really expanded in the last few years, and it helps to know some of the main frameworks, protocols, and etiquette so that you can…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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I keep making things out of checkboxes
Something happened earlier this year where I got on a run making checkbox animations and just couldn’t stop.
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Closing The Portal App
Portal was a passion project that we built to experiment with other ways of moving data between phones and computers. We built the slickest app we could and have continued to support the app, site and server for over 6 years now.
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Lots to See in Firefox 93
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection.
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Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy
Android 12's Material You could risk your privacy. Learn protective measures with our insights.
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RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term
Our continual investments in the performance of Chrome have led to significant improvements in battery life, memory, and the speed of the we...
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Tab Unloading in Firefox 93
Firefox will monitor available system memory and, should it become that a crash is imminent, Firefox will respond by unloading memory-heavy.
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Firefox 93
Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format, which is based on the modern and royalty free AV1 video codec. It offers significant bandwidth savings for sites compared to existing image formats. It also supports transparency and other advanced features.
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Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
Brave and Firefox implement support for the microsoft-edge: URL scheme. Brave to hijack Bing search links. Plus, the history of all this anti-competitive crap.
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The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
Change for change’s sake alone is masturbatory. That with Safari 15 it actually makes usability *worse*, solely for flamboyant cosmetic reasons, is downright perverse.we
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Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse
Cloudflare announces the Private Beta of their Web3 gateways for Ethereum and IPFS. Unlocking the Metaverse, Web3, and Decentralized Finance for every developer.
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Downsides of Offline First
Discover the hidden pitfalls of local-first apps. Learn about storage limits, conflicts, and real-time illusions before building your offline solution.
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DNS Record Types
An overview of all the DNS record types. Each DNS record type is briefly explained, and extensive explanations are available in linked articles.
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Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now supports IPv6 for all Pages hosted on *.github.io and custom domains. Documentation for enabling IPv6 with custom domains can be found here.
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What's New in React 18?
Welcome to my website!
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Dithered images and websites (2020)
That's a lot of data. More bytes on average than html, css, fonts, and javascript combined.
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Offline First
Local-First software stores data on client devices for seamless offline and online functionality, enhancing user experience and efficiency.
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Spaces launch in Element
Spaces rethink grouping rooms and people, fundamentally improving Element and Matrix to better group conversations instead of viewing all rooms all of the time.
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Procedurally generating a rounded box mesh
If you haven't heard the story about Steve Jobs, Bill Atkinson, and rounded corners, it's a fun read . A big takeaway is that rounded corners are everywhere . Let's take a look at procedurally generating a rounded box mesh.
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Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie search engine
UPDATE 2025-05-19 Somewhat un-suprisingly AWS has closed the loophole that I was exploiting for this https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/#30._AWS_Lambda and as such compiling data into your lambda …
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Nginx Playground
New tool: an nginx playground
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How we got to LiveView
I'm Chris McCord. I work at Fly.io and created Phoenix, an Elixir web framework. Phoenix provides features out-of-the-box that are difficult in other languages and frameworks. This is a post about how we created LiveView, our flagship feature.
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Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing
Today, Brave launched Brave Talk, a new privacy-focused video conferencing feature built directly into the Brave browser.
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Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
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Introduction to Hippo: The WebAssembly PaaS
Hippo makes it easy to run applications and services at scale