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Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)
One of the biggest surprises at WWDC last year was Apple’s announcement that its new map would cover “ the entire U.S. by the end of 2019 ”:
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,615 posts.
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Best practices in modern web projects
At Oktavilla we regularly start new projects. Over the years we have therefore come up with a few best practices to ensure that it is easy to take part in ou...
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A large collection of fraudulent web stores
It started simply enough...
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Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.
On November 18, 2019, Apple’s new map expanded to parts of the Midwest and much of the Western U.S.:
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A small collection of text-only websites
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is…
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A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript
I believe the day-to-day practice of writing JavaScript is going to change dramatically for the better when ECMAScript.next arrives. The coming year is going...
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What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App
Porting an existing iOS app to Flutter, what it was like and my thoughts on Flutter thus far.
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Dreamy Blur
One day I saw a few pictures shared by my friend Fish. I was attracted by their slight blur and the subtle glowing effects, and wondered what kind of filter function was used. But then she told me it's just because the camera lens wasn't wiped clean.
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A React.js case study
NOTE: Some code and conclusions expressed here are not idiomatic React. See the follow-up post for more details!
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JSON vs. XML
Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This is foundational stuff for the…
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Why are we limited to JS in browsers - would a bytecode standard help?
robhu has a good point over here . At the moment we write Javascript in web pages, which is then compiled down by the various JIT methods that Firefox/IE/Webkit use to make it super fast. Seeing as what's run clearly isn't the actual JS itself, but bytecode, why not have a standardised bytecode…
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Taking a break from Adblock Plus development
After twelve years of working on Adblock Plus, the time seems right for me to take a break. The project’s dependence on me has been on the decline for quite a while already. Six years ago we founded eyeo, a company that would put the former hobby project on a more solid foundation. Two years ago Felix Dahlke took over…
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Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6
David Fowler doesn't have a blog. I think the psychic weight of having a blog ...
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Flash is dead. Long live the internet.
When I was in high school I didn’t own a computer. I used to read the occasional Popular Mechanics magazine and would linger for a while on the articles about the internet or HTML, fascinated by this new technology that I had barely even used. I don’t know why, but for some reason I’ve always been drawn toward…
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Chrome developer tools to master
With the advent of modern frameworks, ES6 and the increasing risk of security everyday, knowing how to use Chrome developer tools can give you a major boost in productivity and help in easy diagnosis of a website’s performance. This article aims to give an overview of different features available in Chrome developer…
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Just Let Me Write Digits
Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years.They have also brought many controversies: age verification laws and what they mean for online anonymity, Wikipedia potentially having to verify the identify of its users in the UK, the reliance on official…
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Building a Stateless API Proxy
How to make an access-limiting proxy for any API
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JS is Assembly Language for the Web: Brendan Eich, Crockford, & others comment
UPDATE: Check out the Podcast I did with Erik Meijer on Hanselminutes this week ...
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Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam
It seems that Twitter has lost control of its advertising system. This blog post will show you why it is dangerous to click on any Twitter advertising. Twitter ads have always been a bit crap, but I've seen a recent influx in outright scams. Let me step you through a couple of examples. A typical click-bait headline…
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Django Advice
For the past year and a half or so I've been working full-time at Dumbwaiter Design doing Django development. I've picked up a bunch of useful tricks along the way that help me work, and I figured I'd share them.
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Speeding up Rails startup time
In which I provide easy instructions to try a new patch that drastically improves the start up time of Ruby applications, in the hope that with wide support it will be merged into the upcoming 1.9.3 release. Skip to the bottom for instructions, or keep reading for the narrative.