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How to make a damn website (2024)
A lot of people want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck. That’s in part because our perception of what websites should be has changed so dramatically over the last 20 years.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
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The advertising cartel coming to your web browser
The three companies (along with Mozilla, which is on one of their “ad features in the browser” kicks again) are drawing up a built-in advertising measurement system, called Attribution Level 1 , as a standard feature of web browsers. The system is intended to measure the effectiveness of advertising by enabling…
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On Dat
My teardown of Beaker and the Dat network.
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Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor
Hello friends!
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Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake
Back when Firefox 2 was released (six years ago this week!), the Internet Explorer team started a friendly tradition of sending Mozilla a cake as congratulations. This continued for Firefox 3 and Firefox 4 . After Firefox switched from major releases once or twice a year to incremental updates every six weeks, they…
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React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, that we’re adding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support to React Native. This is provided as an open source, community-supported framework. The new UWP support extends the reach of these native apps to a new market of 270 million…
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New version of Apache HTTP Server released
World’s most popular Web Server powers nearly 400 million Websites across the globe Forest Hill, MD – 21 February 2012 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced version 2.4 of the award-winning…
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Cool things people do with their blogs
Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more …
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Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends
What to do before adopting every little trend you come across
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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Moving towards a faster web
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...
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Short URLs: Why and How
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Why are payment forms so complicated?
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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Brave Search launches own image and video search
Brave Search's new independent image and video search feature protects your privacy and freedom to access information online.
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The life and death of email read tracking
This week we sunsetted read tracking ability from Missive. Years ago, after receiving many requests to...
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Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
If you use Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail/Outlook.com, you now have the option to Gmailify your inbox.
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Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in web pages
A new version of Adblock Plus was released on July 17, 2018. Version 3.2 introduced a new filter option for rewriting requests. A day later AdBlock followed suit and released support for the new filter option. uBlock, being owned by AdBlock, also implemented the feature. Under certain conditions the $rewrite filter…
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It's 2012, HTML5 is awesome, and I'm surfing a PDF
Designer, researcher, strategist.
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Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
We can mostly blame Internet Explorer, as always.
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Why Prefetch Is Broken
When coding a webpage, sometimes you know something is very likely to be needed, even if it's not needed yet. You can give the browser a hint: <link rel=prefetch href=url> The browser will take a note, and then when it doesn't have anything more important to do it might request url. Later on, if it does turn out…
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Messing with scraper bots
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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Firefox 55: WebVR and more
Firefox on Windows is the first desktop browser to support the new WebVR standard (and macOS support is ready now in Nightly!) You'll find many new features for developers, as ...
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Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go
Recently I've become more and more interested in how WebRTC works, so a few weeks ago I decided to add a page to my website where I could set up peer-to-peer video chats. There are plenty of libraries and services out there to make this extremely easy, but knowing that WebRTC is now well supported natively across…
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Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
Microsoft have released a beta of Internet Explorer 9. This much is good, they’re back in the game. The engine supports modern standards—and for the first time Internet Explorer now renders this website (which has been HTML5 since early 2008 ).
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Why Web3?
Over the last month, there has been a ton of debate and conversation about web2 vs web3 with many leading voices raising doubts about web3. Debate and doubt are healthy. And web3 enthusiasts, particularly on Twitter, remind me of missionaries trying to recruit the unwashed to their belief system. Frankly, it is all…
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Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads
Disclaimer: The events depicted in this story are purely factual and described to the best of my memory. Prelude Many years ago, in the City of London… The Expedia empire reigns. Having conqu…