Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,615 posts.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, June 2009, when asked about HTML5: To the extent that an improved HTML standard accelerates innovation and consistent reach for web content, we’re very supportive . ( context )
The backstory behind Elder.js and the thinking behind the 5 biggest design decisions.
A few days ago, I saw an article about someone’s Playstation Network account getting stolen . The problem wasn’t so much that the account got stolen, as this apparently happens more often than not, but that Sony has created a system so convoluted that it’s possible for the thief to keep your account, without you…
mostly 1990s PC gaming
I decided to migrate my blog from WordPress to Jekyll. I designed a new layout, imported my database and created some custom features to get it all to my liking.
You can construct the Rule 110 cellular automaton in JPEG XL.
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
Last week I finally caught up with the state of Ruby - the language, the community and the tools in fashion. I'm impressed. These guys seem ...
We deconstruct JSX to create a new general purpose programming tool.
Complete guide to Varnish cache: HTTP headers, VCL configuration, cache invalidation, ESI, and practical setup. Video, slides & real-world examples.
All signs seem to indicate that Apple will finally ship IndexedDB in Safari 7.1 sometime this year. This means that Safari, the last holdout against IndexedDB,…
Shing Lyu's blog
Prolog Web Applications
… optional, that is. I’ve been working on an NSFW filter for Marginalia Search, as that is something some people have asked for, primarily API consumers. The search engine has had some domain based filtering for a while, based on the UT1 lists, but that isn’t a very comprehensive approach. We’ll land on a single…
GraphQL Conf 2019 was happening on 20-21 June in Berlin & this is an example of Idea forming huge community. Here are some takeaways from GraphQL Conf 2019
I think the folks building Tailwind are talented and nice people. But at a pure technical level, I simply don’t like Tailwind. Whoever it was built for, it was not built for me.
The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.
I don’t use CSS preprocessors they way many people do. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files?
JSON-API has been one of the most popular standards for API development for a while now. It was conceived in 2013, battled through some rather different RC versions (changing drastically as it went), finally stabilizing with v1.0 back in mid-2015. My interest in JSON-API has changed
How I learnt Elm (its good parts and bad) by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React.
When you invoke a function in an imperative programming language, you pass arguments to that function. But that function may also operate on global mutable state, meaning there are other factors in the operation of that function than merely the arguments you pass to it. To some extent this kind of contextual, implicit…
