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So you want to build a browser engine
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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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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Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption
The Keybase browser extension subverts the app's end-to-end encryption. Keybase considers that "an acceptable risk" and not worth fixing.
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The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors
The story of how I gained two world-firsts, somehow.
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It’s the end of the web as we know it
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Still Why No HTTPS?
Back in July last year, Scott Helme and I shipped a little pet project that tracked the world's largest websites not implementing HTTPS by default [https://www.troyhunt.com/why-no-https-heres-the-worlds-largest-websites-not-redirecting-insecure-requests/] . We called it Why No HTTPS? [https://whynohttps.
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Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
There's a class of comment you often see when someone makes a popular thread on Mastodon/Twitter/Threads/etc., that you also see on videos that's basically "Why make a Twitter thread? This would be better as a blog post" or "Why make a video? This would be better as a blog post". But, these comments are often stronger…
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MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
After seeing a little spike in traffic on Analytics I did some further investigation. Lo and behold Websanova is tracking MLB.com!
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Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
Now, you don't have to download VPN extensions or pay for VPN subscriptions to access blocked websites and to shield your browsing when on public Wi-Fi.
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From context collapse to content collapse
When social media was taking shape fifteen-odd years ago, the concept of “context collapse” helped frame and explain the phenomenon. Young scholars like Danah Boyd and Michael Wesch, bu…
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The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries work in cycles. Every six months or so, a new one pops up, claiming that it has revolutionized UI development. Thousands of developers adopt it into their new projects, blog posts are written, Stack Overflow questions are asked and answered, and then a newer (and even more…
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Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected
I’d like to preface this case study by stating that my intentions behind redesigning Apple Music were in no way driven by indignation or…
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Migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
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WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing
The software ecosystem has a lot of useful but unsafe code, and the easier it is to sandbox that code, the moreoften that’ll happen. If it were as simple as ...
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30 years of <br> tags
Three decades of making things on the internet
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Parcel v2
The Parcel team is beyond excited to announce that v2.0.0 stable is now available! 🎉
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This website has no class
Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.
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Ellie – An Elm Live Editor
Ellie puts the Elm platform in your browser so you can try Elm, share ideas, and bring your programs to life.
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Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
Garamond is widely considered one of the greatest fonts ever made. But the things that make Garamond so beautiful also make it a problem.
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YouTube has apparently reinstated RSS feeds
Well if there's something I wasn't expecting to find tonight, it was that apparently YouTube has decided to allow users to follow channels via RSS again , and unlike the last few years, this time it actually looks to be officially supported!
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Console.delight
Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables to the console. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML in it?!? I didn't! It's a neat technique that can delight the curious and further your brand for curious users.
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HTTP security headers
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