Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 568 posts.
Many people are currently assessing React Native as a platform to develop their next mobile app on. This is no trivial matter. Switching your software development platform involves a high setup cost and will profoundly impact your daily programming workflow. It is also one of the costliest decisions to reverse after…
Now you can visit many planets and moons in Google Maps right from your computer.
The New York Times website is changing, and the technology we use to run it is changing too.
Sometimes you have to write code to do some ad-hoc things in order to make programs run in a variety of environments, but as time goes by, it could result in a tragicomical situation where ad-hoc features are built on other ad-hoc features. It is easy to identify that kind of problem, but in many cases, nobody can fix…
The Network Monitor tool has been available in Firefox since the earliest days of Firefox Dev Tools. It’s an invaluable tool for anyone who cares about page load performance and ...
Google bought the .dev gTLD and Chrome 63 started force-redirecting every .dev domain to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS, breaking local dev setups. Here's why, and …
How to score a perfect 100/100 on Google PageSpeed with a Middleman static site behind Nginx.
ClojureScript has had first class JavaScript interop since its initial release in 2011. Similarly to Clojure, embracing the host has always been an explicit goal. While the above is true from a syntax standpoint, integrating with external JavaScript libraries historically came at the cost of some manual work [ 1 ] (…
I'm killing Disqus comments on my blog. Here's why.
Upgrading a security protocol in an ecosystem as complex as the Internet is difficult. You need to update clients and servers and make sure everything in between continues to work correctly. The Internet is in the middle of such an upgrade right now.
In this article I’d like to present a list of django packages (add-ons) that I use in most of my projects. I am using django for more than 5 years as my day to day work tool to develop applications for the public sector organization I work for. So please keep in mind that these packages are targeted to the…
Discover the tech stack used by Algolia. Explore 15 tools across 4 categories.
The article should help people to understand the benefits of React and Angular for making an educated decision to choose between Angular or React. It tells my story why I moved from Angular to React after using both libraries for years. It's not just another click-bait article, but an article with lots of experiences…
We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
I would say this is the future, but we’re already doing it.
I've been thinking and prototyping a native HTML editor for a while⁺ . (Native as opposed to a text editor that's customized to work with HTML) This is a rough transcript of a presentation I gave on the subject in 2016. This presentation is about HTML, but these ideas could be useful for other markup languages, data…
Thinking about a switch from React to Vue? They're similar beasts but with a few key differences. In this article I'll explain the differences so you're ready to jump in to VueJS and be productive.
Remember, in `may 1996`, the very first HTTP protocol version (HTTP/1.0) was born.
We’ve created a showcase of the amazing VR experiences developers are building on the web. To play with them, all you need is a browser.
Google trends, Apple, Google Chrome and plenty of developers put a cross on Flash. In my opinion without Flash the current web tech stack might look different. Credentials I wrote my first line of code in ActionScript 2.0 it was 13 years ago and it was streamlined with the style of web. Big boom of
