Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,615 posts.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
AMP had just been popularised at the time I was considering rebuilding this site. It sounded like as a great idea. Faster websites are right up my alley. And who doesn’t want an SEO boost? I mean, I still can’t make Get Cryptolocker show up on Google. And no, I don’t want to buy your Wordpress theme, even if it is…
This morning, on a conference mailing list, I made some disparaging remarks about Node.js (the title of this post, in fact). A couple people asked me why I felt that way. Rather than respond individually, I'll just list my reasons here — codeslinger.posterous.com
In this article we will look at the various ways an object can be copied in Javascript. We will take a look at both shallow and deep copying. While shallow copying is rather straightforward, deep copying is more tricky. Currently, there is a HTML5 specification for a deep copy algorithm but it is not publically…
I'm switching my node code from callbacks to promises. The reasons aren't merely aesthetical, they're rather practical:
From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web…
For the past 2 years, ~90% of my coding time has been spent working on a large scale Backbone.js app. In February 2014, the Backbone community was in a fairly good place. The core library had reached 1.0 the previous year and had a strong team around it. Marionette had emerged as a de-facto standard for web…
Created this by pasting together a few screenshots from a NetBeans profiler session – of a Spring + Hibernate web-app running within JBoss. Quite interesting to see how the business logic is …
A bit over a year ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project on this site. I have a long history with AMP and at some point I was one of it’s main critics. I’ve since accepted…
Your APIs are only as good as the documentation that comes with them. Invest time in getting docs right. — @rubenv on Twitter
In spite of some of the reaction to it , I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don't really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can't discern any overwhelming advantages of Google's implementation. It seems I'm not alone. The…
Ambient lighting is a technique that creates light effects around the television that correspond to the video content. It has been pioneered...
When Apple originally released the iPhone SDK in 2008, I was extremely excited about it, and immediately started working on multiple different iPhone apps. By 2009, though, I had become so uncomfortable with Apple’s stewardship of its mobile platform that I released the one game that was furthest along, and…
In the current version of macOS, Monterey, on every system update on a system containing an M1 chip, such as all the new shiny/fast ARM (“Apple Silicon”) macs, the update process phones home to Apple to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a “ticket”.
I’ve added a faceted search engine to this blog, powered by PostgreSQL. It supports regular text search (proper search, not just SQL“like” queries), filter by tag, filter by date, filter …
I’m a self-taught developer who worked as a freelancer and indie maker in 2019 and I learned Shopify app and theme development and I want to share with you resources that help me to become a Shopify developer
What's wrong with the term "REST API", and what should we use instead?
How in the world do you pirate an API?
Create usable sites, even if JavaScript is blocked
What do a recent A List Apart article , the ad blocker discussion of a few months back, and my browser testing plans have in common?
Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on social media. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the future of software development.
Last week, I gave a presentation by the same name as this article at Tencent Frontend Conference in Shenzhen, China. In this article, I’m adapting its transcript to a format more suitable for Pony Foo. I hope you enjoy it!
