Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 552 posts.
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 44, ‘Kuala Lumpur’. This release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved settings panels for Device Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick settings in the shell. The Software and Files apps have seen improvements, and a whole slew of new…
Learn how to create an accessible hamburger button with pure HTML and CSS.
An experiment of using incremental computations for managing state in Humble UI
Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration which promises to virtually end typographic widows.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
It’s been a long time coming, but we finally now have the built-in `structuredClone` function to make deep cloning objects in JavaScript a breeze
One of the most common accessibility issues I find (and fix) on client projects is dynamically disabled form buttons when a form is being submitted. Today I want to talk about why developers do it, why it’s bad, and what you can do instead. Let’s dig in! Why developers disable buttons Typically, I see the pattern used…
Hey there, it’s been a while! We’re back to share some more exciting news about Guile Hoot , a WebAssembly toolchain and Scheme→WASM compiler. In our last post we demonstrated that the Guile Hoot toolchain can be used to assemble programs written in WebAssembly Text (WAT) format, which allowed us to develop for the…
React SPAs still matter: the new React docs push frameworks like Next.js, but dashboards behind a login need no SEO, and SSR adds server load.
Deno.serve() is stable, support for key npm packages, and more.
At least, not with today's software.
There's no BBC News text-only site, even though everyone comes here looking for one – more info
Sixteen years ago to the day, I started RailsCasts, a screencast series teaching web development using Ruby on Rails. It began with free weekly episodes…
Progressive Web Apps can be submitted to app stores like the Android Play Store or the Microsoft Store and more.
In this blog post, we'll examine the virtualization obfuscation used by Nike
History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today
TouchEn nxKey is supposed to combat keyloggers. Instead, this application made writing a keylogger extremely simple, allowed attacking banking websites and more.
Rem recently asked:
... they pay, they leave, they drink, they order.
Today, Internet Explorer has been consigned to the dustbin of history, yet its quirks and peculiar features remain an interesting area of discussion from a historical perspective. There was one particular feature of IE which not only now seems comically naive, but also completely impractical: namely, IE tried to…
Recently, I started working on a new LLM-oriented project . It’s currently far from feature-complete and probably filled with bugs, but I’m hoping to use it as a platform for exploring a question I’ve been considering a lot lately: what will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future? It seems undeniable…
*This post was originally published by Mike McCue.
Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to hasten the demise of CAPTCHAs across the internet. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use.
We've re-added WebGPU, added new deno coverage reporters, made substantial Node.js compatibility improvements, and more.
Email clients have quirks that force you to use <table> elements, inline styles, and follow other bad practices that make development complicated.
A new API is coming to the web platform to help you position elements in an adaptive way with no tricks.
We are excited to explore the latest developments in generative AI and how it can drive ML applications through image augmentation and dataset population.
The <keygen/> element is probably one of the weirdest elements ever added to HTML:
