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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 242 posts.
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Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
Mac, iPhone & iPad interface design consulting, writing and speaking featuring tutorials, interviews, techniques and thoughts on crafting & building beautiful software. By Mike Rundle.
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"Hand-Drawn" Vector Graphics Editor in Javascript
<img src="http://stevehanov.ca/blog/images/stick-figures.png"/> Now it's a commercial product, but <a href="http://zwibbler.com">Zwibbler</a> was once a fun side-project, and here's some details on its implementation.
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The Rails 3 router: Rack it up
In my previous post about generic actions in Rails 3, I made reference to significant improvements in the router. Some of those have been covered on other blogs [http://rizwanreza.com/2009/12/20/revamped-routes-in-rails-3], but the full scope of the improvements hasn't yet been
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Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable
Web browsers should only buffer HTML5 media content when the `autobuffer` attribute has been explicitly turned on in the markup.
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Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX
Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge
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Anatomy of a bad search result
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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How Google uses HTML5 to reduce startup latency for mobile Gmail
On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes stor...
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Comet is dead, long live websockets
I've just had a chance to play with the implementation of websockets in Googles Chrome browser. This post started me off. After a small am...
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Daring Fireball: PastryKit
The best iPhone web app I’ve ever seen.
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GWT 2.0: So good it's ridiculous
GWT 2.0 was released today, and even though I've been using it for months and contributing to it, I didn't realize the significance of this ...
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Mibbit supports WebSocket, some initial numbers.
I just implemented WebSocket into the Mibbit server, and thought I'd get some real numbers on performance. Having recently updated the Mibbi...
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High Performance Web Sites: Crockford, webhosting, online dating, JSON, alert
Wow, Doug added an alert() to http://www.json.org/json2.js which just alerted a LOT of people on the Internet. Proving a point on hotlinks?
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Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome
Starting in the Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.249.0, Web Sockets are available and enabled by default. Web Sockets are "TCP f...
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Is RightJS really faster than jQuery?
My journey of mastering procrastination has led me to an interesting article on Hacker News today:
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Google releases a Chrome extension to identify web app performance problems
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How Google should have acquired EtherPad
How Google acquired EtherPad How the acquisition probably went down. EtherPad is one of my favorite companies and we have mentioned it from…
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JQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos
This is a description of how ahathereitis.com works. The things I'll be looking for are basically just a bunch of lines on the ground (like...
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Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?
Earlier this year, we heard from many of you on how important speed is to your daily activities on the web. We kicked off a series of disc...