Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
Back in the day, light mode wasn’t called “light mode”. It was just the way that computers were, we didn’t really think about turning everything light or dark. Sure, some applications were often dark (photo editors, IDEs, terminals) but everything else was light, and that was fine. What we didn’t notice is that light…
The web platform is the delivery mechanism of choice for a ton of software these days, either through the web browser itself or through Electron, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for a good old fashioned straight-up desktop application in the picture.
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time…
In September 2021, Cloudflare took the tech world by storm by announcing R2: a storage service accessible through the ubiquitous S3 API but that didn't charge any egress ("bandwidth") fees. You only pay for storage and read/write/delete requests. It was a major kick in the incumbents' balls who all…
Yesterday, OpenAI announced Atlas, its AI browser. To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a …
Hey! If you do front end development, you should know about CatchJS. It’s a JavaScript error logging service that doesn’t suck. Below is a graph over the amount of searches for AngularJ…
EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them. You can try it out today: Privacy Badger is EFF's answer to intrusive and objectionable...
Chris Haynes - web developer consultant
Tutorial with copy-paste ready code to add CSV Export to any model in Wagtail's modeladmin module
It’s super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I shouldn’t be thinking about weird internet drama, but here we are.
WebGPU is an emerging API, designed from the ground up within the W3C, to provide access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
One of the many benefits of the Web is the ability to create unique, personalized experiences for individual users. We believe that this personalization needs ...
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
This post is based on a talk I gave at the React JS & React Native Bonn Meetup.It aims to answer the following questions: What’s TypeScript? How can I ...
Android is deeply deeply fragmented. The Android ecosystem is split between at least 1,728 combinations of OS - Brand - Device Model (Data).
My stack will outlive yours
Open-source, swappable packages and an AI that assembles them into full-stack apps that scale.
Google Fonts is fast. Now it’s faster. Much faster.
The needs are real – and you have so much power.
