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Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin
WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 596 posts.
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Why I quit using SwiftUI
SwiftUI is currently the new trend in the Apple development world. And I wanted to give it a try. I did. However, in this post, I explain why I went back to AppKit for The Untitled Project’s authoring tools.
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Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer
Among high-legibility fonts, a study found 35% difference in reading speeds between the best and the worst. People read 11% slower for every 20 years they age.
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Next.js Layouts RFC: Nested routes and layouts, designed for Server Components
Nested routes and layouts, client and server routing, React 18 features, and designed for Server Components.
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Next.js 13
Next.js 13 introduces layouts, React Server Components, and streaming in the app directory, as well as Turbopack, an improved image component, and the brand new font component.
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I built a vector map from scratch
How I Built a Vector Map from Scratch
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SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow
I've been sitting on publishing these notes for a while, because I don't want to diminish the work of the talented people that engineered SwiftUI and plowed through years of AppKit and UIKit code to get to this state. But I'd like to draw attention to some performance limitations, in the hope that a SwiftUI engineer…
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Folk Interfaces
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
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Things I do every time I start a Django project
Personal site of Brenton Cleeland
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GraphQL is now available on Supabase
GraphQL support is now in general availability on the Supabase platform via our open source PostgreSQL extension, pg_graphql.
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Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers
Use connect-web to generate compact, idiomatic TypeScript clients for your Protobuf APIs.
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We can't check the app permissions on Google Play anymore
Yep, Google removed the permissions list from Play Store, and we can no longer check the app permissions on it.
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WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers
One of the great headaches of developing interactive graphics applications for online deployment is covering every base. Your targets likely include a near-infinite combination of browser vendors, browser versions, and graphics hardware. The Khronos Group created WebGL to slice through this Gordian knot, rendering…
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Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
Once upon a time, loading common scripts & styles from a public CDN like cdnjs or Google's Hosted Libraries was a 'best practice' - a great way to instantly...
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HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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CORS is not meant to secure an API endpoint
CORS does not secure your API: why browser-side API keys are unsafe, and how to protect Drupal JSON:API endpoints with proper authentication.
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RSS Feed Best Practices
These are some technical tips for publishing a blog. These have nothing to do with good content, just how to share that content. The recommendations are roughly in order of importance and have rationale for why they are that important.
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Request bodies in GET requests
12 years ago I asked on Stack Overflow: Are HTTP GET requests allowed to have request bodies? . This got a 2626 upvotes and a whopping 1.6 million views, so clearly it’s something lots of people are still curious about, and in some cases disagree with the accepted answer.
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Typography is impossible (2016)
The practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want
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Hanami 2.0
Hanami 2.0 opens a new chapter for the Ruby community.
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Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser
Datasette Lite is a new way to run Datasette: entirely in a browser, taking advantage of the incredible Pyodide project which provides Python compiled to WebAssembly plus a whole suite …
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Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting
Two competing syntaxes need your help in determining which should be championed through to a specification candidate.
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The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string
Erotic web browser fan fiction.
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What’s the best lossless image format?
In a blog post last year, I took a look at lossy image formats and how they stack up. This time, I thought it might be interesting to do a comparison of lossless image formats.
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Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application
Comparing Electron and Tauri - With a real world app