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Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
TLDR: Google suddenly claims a “terms of service” violation on a route plotting site that has been built on the Maps API for a decade.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,614 posts.
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Dark mode in a website with CSS
This page has a dark mode. Try it! Supporting prefers-color-scheme was easy, though there were a couple surprising details to address.
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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The three pillars of JavaScript bloat
A brief look at the three main causes of bloat in our JavaScript dependency trees, and how we can start to address them.
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Shortest URLs on the Internet
What’s the shortest URL for which content is served on the internet? There are quite a few single-letter second-level domains that are used in very short URLs, such as Google’s http://g.co or Facebook’s https://m.me. But we can go shorter than this: there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at…
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Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
JavaScript implementation of so-called Seam Carving algorithm for the content-aware image resizing and objects removal. Dynamic programming approach is applied to optimize the resizing time.
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Image diffing using CSS
Since the last post [http://franklinta.com/2014/09/08/computing-css-matrix3d-transforms/] on CSS was popular here is another simple CSS trick that I found useful in the past. Let’s say we want to find the difference between these two images: You can do this by simply inverting the colors and then stacking them…
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Web development is fun again
AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.
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MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on
MVC is a phenomenal idea. You have models, which are nice self-contained bits of state, views which are nice self-contained bits of UI, and controllers which are nice self-contained bits of …
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The balance has shifted away from SPAs
There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago. Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are…
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How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild
How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild Yang et al., ICSE’18 This is a fascinating study of the problems people get into when using…
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XUL Layout is gone
So this week I landeda fewpatches thatcompletely removed XUL layout from the Firefox codebase.
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We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel
This is a post about why I'm making knotend , a flowchart editor designed for speed, and why we need to get away from mouse-based flowchart editors.
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Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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“Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history
Before it became a covert surveillance tool disguised as an outstanding browser extension, Stylish really was an outstanding browser extension. It bestowed upon its users nothing less than the power to change the appearance of the internet. Its extensive bank of user-made skins gave bright websites a dark background…
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No more icons in every menu by default
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in…
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Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
When I’ve started writing my stories on Medium it felt really good. Medium was the perfect "medium" to share your thoughts with all your followers. However in couple of years it changed a lot and I didn’t liked those changes. What were these? 1. Setting up a domain
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The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)
Do you recognise these images? There's a good chance you've seen some of them before now, probably several times. Here's a hint: They all depict the same thing.
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Shader-like holographic effects with CSS
Get a shiny WebGL look without actually using WebGL. In this article we take a look at how CSS blend modes unleash the potential of cool compositing effects without the need for JavaScript
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The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of examples can be found on the web. The problem is, they all show the before and after statically, side by
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time
Most popular libraries can be sped up by avoiding unnecessary type conversions or by avoiding creating functions inside functions.
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The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will…
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The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss
What bothers me isn’t so much that Daring Fireball is shitlisted at Hacker News. What bothers me is that it’s unexplained.
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Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
The W3C has a page with the original WWW proposal from Tim Berners-Lee. One of the downloads says The original document file (I think - I ...