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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,614 posts.
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Hacking YouTube with a MP4
Keyboard Warrior, Breaking software is just finding unintended features, right?
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The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
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Springs and bounces in native CSS
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips and tricks I’ve learned for using it…
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Why even let users set their own passwords?
Today we seem to be living through a war on passwords. This is manifested in various ways; in its most passive form, it takes the form of people blogging about how passwords are bad. The more material changes are the general trend towards no longer treating passwords as a sufficient condition for access in favour of…
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Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
Why I chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
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Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019
Cloud-Native Full-Stack Software Engineer and Solutions Architect
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Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)
Why you might benefit from letting this popular paradigm rest in peace.
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Rewrite It in Rails
In 2022 I started building an application for creating Customs declarations. After evaluating some options and writing code in various programming languages ...
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A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP 1.1 server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it's a text file that has some specific rules t…
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Skype 5 for Mac
A while back, when Skype's group videochat feature was still free, a friend of mine sent me a Skype message, asking me whether it was possible to do videochat with more than one person in Skype. "Sure," I replied, "you can do that, but you need to install the new Skype 5 beta." I sent her the link. A few minutes…
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The woes of sanitizing SVGs
Scratch has a long history of SVG-related vulnerabilities. The source of these is that Scratch parses user-generated (ie. attacker-controlled) content into an <svg> element and appends it into the main document for various operations (eg. measuring SVG bounding box in a more reliable way than viewbox or width/height).
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Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript
I’m a programmer and author interested in how intelligence, perception and learning work—and in building things that explore those questions directly.
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Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
Before Reddit added native image hosting, Imgur accounted for 15% of all submissions to Reddit. Now it’s below 9%.
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Yet another way to invoke functions in JavaScript without parentheses
i found yet another way to invoke arbitrary functions in javascript without using parentheses
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"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
A while ago, I came across a unique registration form built by Jeremy Keith for his audio sharing site, Huffduffer. Though it asked people the same questions fo...
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Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
Some quick thoughts on moving from Twitter/X to BlueSky and how I'll try to use social media after being burned once by Twitter.
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Design of This Website (2021)
Meta page describing Gwern.net, the self-documenting website’s implementation and experiments for better ‘semantic zoom’ of hypertext; technical decisions using Markdown and static hosting.
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Why apps are not the future
I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll , as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium.
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Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For?
UPDATE March 28, 2013: Many people have commented here and emailed me that it no longer works for you. I have made an update to fix the bookmarklet for those with Facebook Graph Search. You can get…
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