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Notes on streaming large API responses
I started a Twitter conversation last week about API endpoints that stream large amounts of data as an alternative to APIs that return 100 results at a time and require …
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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Introducing Windows 11
At a time when the PC is playing a more central role in our lives, Windows 11 is designed to bring you closer to what you love.
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What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
Here in Austria, you need to be either vaccinated against, tested negative for, or have recovered from COVID-19 to go to the pub (or pretty much everywhere) right now. If you don't want to carry around your paperwork proving one of those, you can alternatively show your Green Pass QR code to be let in.
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URLs: It's Complicated
Let's play silly games with URLs...
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Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
One of the main reasons some people tend to avoid updating their PCs is that “it makes it slower”. Especially with Windows 10’s Software as a Service approach, where it gets the s…
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An unwanted update to your Google Account
Google sent me an email informing me that they will change the country associated with my account in 30 days. I wanted to know why.
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JPEG XL would be Turing-complete without the 1024×1024 pixel limitation
You can construct the Rule 110 cellular automaton in JPEG XL.
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State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
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Brave, the false sensation of privacy
ebin.city is a short 4-character .city domain available for buy. Listed at $100 — secure it before someone else does.
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Ad Blocker Usage and Demographic Statistics in 2026
Interesting ad blockers user stats. Includes data on usage, demographics and more.
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Cool URIs don't change (1998)
There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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Next.js 11
Next.js 11 continues our mission to create the best developer experience with a new conformance system and performance improvements.
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Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all
Today, we’re thrilled to be partnering with Let’s Encrypt, the world’s largest certificate authority.
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Building a WebAuthn Click Farm
How I built a click farm to “bypass” Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA killer with some cheap USB security keys, an Arduino, and a bit of python.
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Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)
There is more than just console.log()
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Privacy Analysis of FLoC
In a previous post, I wrote about a new set of technologies “Privacy Preserving Advertising”, which are intended to allow for advertising without compr
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What's in email tracking links and pixels?
This investigation into email tracking attempts to deconstruct tracking links and pixels and highlight the data that is being collected. It covers Mailchimp, …
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Vivaldi 4.0
Translate websites on desktop or Android privately with Vivaldi 4.0! Our latest update also adds beta versions of Mail, Calendar, and Feed Reader.
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What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.
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Introducing chrome.scripting
The Scripting API is a new Manifest V3 API focused on, well, scripting. Let's dig into the motivations for this change and how it's different.
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Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
We're excited to announce Astro as a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience.
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Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison
I took the real app and convert it from Styled Components to Linaria to compare the app performance of CSS-in-JS and normal CSS. Continue reading if you want to know how it went.
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The Plan for React 18
The library for web and native user interfaces
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FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
macOS 27 Golden Gate with all-new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence and new features for a more responsive, delightful experience.
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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
I went down a rabbit-hole analysing a competitor and discovered a black-hat SEO operation involving tens of thousands of websites.
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Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser
If progress follows it's usual strategy, then whatever is difficult and valuable to do today will become easy and normal tomorrow. I imagine we'll discover new abstractions, which will make writing Google Docs as easy as the average web app is today.
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Chrome is faster in M91
Since the launch of Chrome in 2008, speed has been one of the 4 core principles that shape the work we do to deliver a highly performant br...