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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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Why I use Firefox
I’m interested in HTML, CSS, and making the web less annoying
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Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations
Bitwarden is a hot candidate for a LastPass replacement. Looking into how they encrypt data, it doesn’t do things that much better however.
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Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
Hello! It looks like you're writing a blog post - would you like help with that? chuckles Me and my colleagues at Microsoft have decided that the world needs more Clippy - the adorable animated paperclip. To help with that, we're bringing a new feature to Edge 6.0. Web Developers can now use <clippy> to call up an…
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Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default
Yesterday the Pull Request 46115: "rustbuild: Enable WebAssembly backend by default" was merged into Rust master. With the Nightly build from that night, the wasm32-unknown-unknown target is natively available.
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HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps
One more thing… It’s been awhile since we launched a whole new product at Fog Creek Software (the last one was Trello, and that’s doing pretty well). Today we’re announcing the public beta of Hyper…
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Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
Firefox Quantum - version 57 - introduced number of changes to the network requests scheduler. One of them is using data of the Tracking Protection database to delay load of scripts from tracking domains when possible during the time a page is actively loading and rendering - I call it tailing. This has a positive […]
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Rediscovering the Small Web
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is…
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
A simple toolchain that Koding Kitty uses for building its web.
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Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
Link to: https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
I've been working on a program called html2svg , it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches.
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Offline is just online with extreme latency
I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program…
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Bypassing GitHub's OAuth Flow with a Head Request
For the past few years, security research has been something I’ve done in my spare time. I know there are people that make a living off of bug bounty programs, but I’ve personally just spent a few hours here and there whenever I feel like it.
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Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!
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Windows native app development is a mess
I tried to build a Windows native app using Microsoft's latest technologies. Now I understand why everyone builds Electron apps.
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The Elements of UI Engineering
What makes UI engineering difficult?
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Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails
Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters, to work correspondence, to unsolicited inbound sales pitches. In many ways, they are an extension of our …
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Chrome Won
Disclaimer: I worked for 7 years at Mozilla and was Mozilla’s Chief Technology Officer before leaving 2 years ago to found an embedded AI startup. Mozilla published a blog post two days ago h…
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Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore. Why do I say this? Well, if you've been rocking the iPhone SE 2020 you would know. What I'm saying is there a lot of UI glitches from apps running on iPhone SE. Clubhouse Forgot to measure the screen's width? Spotify I can't see the Refresh button. I…
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JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.
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I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
I've been using Feeder to keep up with the news for awhile now. For a long time, I just checked AllSides. But then I found out NPR in my state supports ...
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The future is not self-hosted
In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.
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It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
The mental minefield of capex and opex
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Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
Shadow is a new novel browser engine written in JS!
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Wuffs’ PNG image decoder
Summary: Wuffs’ PNG image decoder is memory-safe but can also clock between 1.22x and 2.75x faster than libpng , the widely used open source C implementation. It’s also faster than the libspng , lodepng and stb_image C libraries as well as the most popular Go and Rust PNG libraries. High performance is achieved by…
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My essential Firefox fixes in 2022
Despite Mozilla’s best efforts, I’m still using their browser nearly 20 years on. Here are my tips.