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Introducing Threads in Beta
All users can now opt-in to our Threads Beta! Threads helps declutter the main room timeline by moving conversations and topics into the right panel.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 596 posts.
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The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
tl;dr A thumbs-up emoji appears each time you type a colon : in Google Docs, in french. I have just noticed that it is now possible to easily insert emojis in Google Docs! Good news? Not for french writers! This feature already exists in Outlook on the Web: when you
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Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
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Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping
In this guide, we show how you can build your own mobile proxy pool step by step. Mobile proxies offer improved reliability for web automation. This guide shows how to build your own mobile proxy infrastructure.
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A new speed milestone for Chrome
Everyday, billions of people around the world turn to Chrome to get things done quickly on their devices, whether shopping for a new pair o...
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Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
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Photoshop for Text
In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.
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Wolvic, a new browser project picking up where Firefox Reality leaves off
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)
I've seen all these studies that show how a 100ms improvement in page load time has a significant effect on page views, conversion rate, etc., but I'd never actually tried to optimize my site. This blog is a static Octopress site, hosted on GitHub Pages. Static sites are supposed to be fast, and GitHub Pages uses…
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Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
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All I want for Christmas is these seven TypeScript improvements
It's Christmastime and I've been happily working through this year's Advent of Code in Deno (look forward to a blog post in the new year). What with all the presents, it's a good time to think about what we'd most like to see from TypeScript in the new year. Here are my top seven feature requests for 2023. Yes, that's…
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A Graph-Based Firebase
In A Database in the Browser , I wrote that the schleps we face as UI engineers are actually database problems in disguise [1] . This begged the question: would a database-looking solution solve them?
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Body Margin 8px
All browsers add an 8px margin on the body element – it’s part of the w3c-recommended default stylesheet which browsers generally use as a starting point for their own ‘user agent’ styles. But why 8px ? Where does that come from?
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Apple’s macOS Ventura – New Security Changes
With macOS 13, Apple have made some bold and potentially disruptive changes to Mac security. We explore them here.
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iOS 16 to support Web push notifications in 2023
iOS 27 with all-new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence and new features for a more responsive, delightful experience.
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Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
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Apple neglects to patch two zero-day, wild vulnerabilities for Big Sur, Catalina
Apple has chosen to leave Big Sur and Catalina (around 35 to 40 percent of all Macs) in danger of actively exploited vulnerabilities that have only been patched for macOS Monterey.
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How to build undo/redo in a multiplayer environment by Liveblocks
Notoriously tough to build, undo/redo in a multiplayer environment is even more fraught with difficulty. In this article, we will take you on a behind-the-scenes exclusive, explaining one of the most complex developer issues for multiplayer apps.
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WebAssembly Is Not A Stack Machine
This is the final part of a 4-part miniseries on issues with WebAssembly and proposals to fix them.
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LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView
Debut of LiveBeats social music app.
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WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android
WebContainers are now supported on Firefox for desktop and mobile as a result of StackBlitz and Mozilla collaboration! 🥳
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Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks
During the pandemic, I deleted most of my social media accounts. While social networks started as a great way to stay in touch - the websites evolved into addic...
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The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
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HTML is all you need to make a website
In a world full of JavaScript frameworks, SPAs, CSS animations, powerful devices and fast internet, HTML-only websites are controversial and divisive. But why?
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User Disengagement
User disengagement is the product and business development philosophy we follow at Zerodha, the anti-thesis of user "engagement".
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How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare, and why you should
The internet is not as good as it used to be. Information is siloed into walled gardens like Facebook, Nextdoor, and so on. Google results are saturated with SEO spam. Wordpress is a mess that keeps on chugging through inertia; Medium, while clean, is behind a paywall; Reddit and Twitter are increasingly hiding their…