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Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
Just about everybody who has ever used a service on the web has experienced the following account creation follow:
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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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Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016)
I’m having a really weird browser issue, where scripts on some pages just won’t run until about 20 seconds have passed. Whatever you’re about to suggest, yes, I’ve thought of it, and no, it’s not the problem. I mention this not in the hope that someone will help me debug it, but because it’s made me acutely aware of a…
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Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
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Tailwind is a leaky abstraction
Although Tailwind does have some benefits, ultimately it’s just one more thing to learn.
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A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us
wingolog: article: a world to win: webassembly for the rest of us
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Firefox is the best mobile browser
Firefox is an open source, private browser, one of the few mainstream browsers that supports extensions on mobile (Android) as powerful as the desktop ones (A lot of extensions have been ported), with seamless sync and a customizable homepage.
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When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
SVG Phone Home
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Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015)
Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37. - Number 1.0 (Futurama, S2E15 )
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RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google
Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly…
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Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon
Update 29.01.2023: Adapted the code to work with Mastodon 4.0 and replaced linuxrocks.online by floss.social Update 15.03.2023: Thanks to @veronica@mastodon.online, this code now handles replies in a lot nicer way. You might want check out her solution too. Update 07.07.2023: Thanks to @cassidy@blaede.family, the…
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Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
Think about the most complex frontends you’ve used. Frontends that made you wonder — “how did they create this”?
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Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?
Explaining WebAssembly, the new bytecode format for the web: why it is so important and a tutorial to start using it right now
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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others , that’s why they call them…
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Moving on from React, a year later
A retrospective on making the switch from React to StimulusJS at Scholarly
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Heartbleed
Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: “The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of…
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A Visual Guide to React Mental Models: UseState, UseEffect and Lifecycles
I love mental models. They’re crucial to understanding complex systems, allowing us to intuitively grasp and solve complex problems.
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An Internet of PHP
Statistics and anecdotes about PHP at scale.
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JavaScript's world domination
A Civilization-esque journey through JavaScript history — chronicles of the march from inception to ubiquity
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How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion
This is a quick blog post about a security vulnerability (now fixed) that allowed me to make anyone like or message a profile on okcupid.com simply by getting them to click a link on my website. In doing so, I used one of the most boring web application security issues (CSRF) combined with a somewhat interesting JSON…
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Idle Until Urgent
A few weeks ago I was looking at some of the performance metrics for my site. Specifically, I wanted to see how I was doing on our newest metric, first input delay (FID). My site is just a blog (and doesn’t run much JavaScript), so I expected to see pretty good results.
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Surprising things that CSS can animate (2020)
When you think of animating CSS properties, which ones come to mind? I recently started wondering about the ones that don’t come to mind — properties that aren’...
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Why I don't like Tailwind CSS
On paper, Tailwind CSS sounds like a great idea. In reality, it suffers from the same problems that it tries to solve.
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Just use a button
One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a <div> is “just as good” as a <button>. Spoiler: it’s not. Let’s dig in. The problem Among the React crowd, and also among people who seem to enjoy HTMX, I see a lot this… <div onclick="showSignIn()">…
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Chrome Is The New C Runtime
At Dropbox, security is our highest priority. Find out how Dropbox secures your files and data, and why millions of people trust us with what matters most.