1921
Fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Debugging memory leaks in web apps is hard. The tooling exists, but it’s complicated, cumbersome, and often doesn’t answer the simple question: Why is my app…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,614 posts.
1922
The Road to GraphQL
The free GraphQL book takes you on a journey to master GraphQL in JavaScript the pragmatic way with React, Node, and Apollo. Grab your free PDF, EPUB, or MOBI and get free updates for new releases. On the road to GraphQL you will learn how to build GraphQL server and client-side applications ...
1923
About normalize.css: a modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets
A small CSS library to make browser defaults more consistent
1924
The time is right for a DOM templating API
Update: See my follow up post, What should a native DOM templating API look like? .
1925
State of web browsers in 2018
Late 2018 edition
1926
Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other…
1927
Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
Like many developers I’ve been excited by the promise of Asm.js . Reading the recent news that Asm.js is now in Firefox nightly is what got my interest going. There’s also been a massive surge in interest after Mozilla and Epic announced ( mirror ) that they had ported Unreal Engine 3 to Asm.js – and that it ran…
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The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
In the previous post i discussed a bit the history of digital map design, in particular also outside of OpenStreetMap. I also wrote in the past about the history of OpenStreetMap Carto , the cartographic face of OpenStreetMap and without doubt the most influential map design project in OpenStreetMap – today as well as…
1931
How Does setState Know What to Do?
Dependency injection is nice if you don’t have to think about it.
1932
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly
For a recent project I've been working on, I wanted to include a graph showing the relationships between different artists on Spotify. Spotify provides the data directly from their API, and I had everything set up to pull it for a user's top artists and into the browser.
1933
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Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
It's no secret that authenticating into services is an unresolved topic. With time, we have managed
1935
In Defense of the Modern Web
I expect I'll annoy everyone with this post: the anti-JavaScript crusaders, justly aghast at how much...
1936
Lowercase letters save data
Lowercase letters and uppercase letters use the same amout of data — 1 byte each.
1937
Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed
If you are Esquire's web designer, please find another career. Stop. Stop hurting the internet. I am still constantly amazed at the level user-hostility -- actually outright contempt -- in mobile web design. Remember in the 90s when those oh-so-clever web sites would pop up little Javascript dialogs trying to better…
1938
Goodbye, Node.js Buffer
It’s time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.
1939
Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005)
Based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005—one entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification."
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Gittip at Khan Academy
For a while now I’ve been a huge fan of Gittip . I think they’ve created one of the most interesting models for funding Open Source development.
1942
Of SVG, Minification and Gzip
Smaller files are downloaded faster, so making an asset file size smaller before sending it to a client is a good thing to do.
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My url isn't your url
When I started the precursor to the curl project, httpget, back in 1996, I wrote my first URL parser. Back then, the universal address was still called URL: Uniform Resource Locators. That spec was published by the IETF in 1994. The term "URL" was then used as source for inspiration when naming the tool and … Continue…
1945
Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
Experimental simulation of emergent complexity through graph-rewriting automata.
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Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese company)
StartSSL uses https://auth.startssl.com/ for the front-end to access to their PKIs (login to the PKI, create, revoke certificates...). It's the Core of their service and the critical part of their infrastructure.
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GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
Update 2018-04-19 - GitHub has implemented some rules around retiring "namespaces".
1950
The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string
Erotic web browser fan fiction.