Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 377 posts.
Something truly monumental happened in the world of software development in 2025. Safari shipped a reasonable implementation of text-wrap: pretty: https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/. We are getting closer and closer to the cutting-edge XV-century technology. Beautiful paragraphs!
Setting up a website using Elixir and Phoenix, leaning on NimblePublisher for the blog posts.
Hologram v0.7.0: 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions, pushing runtime coverage from 34% to 96%. Plus enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure work.
The words are a subset of the 10,000 most common words from Google's Trillion Word Corpus , with definitions sourced from Open English Wordnet .
Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.
Yes you! You need a webring
… optional, that is. I’ve been working on an NSFW filter for Marginalia Search, as that is something some people have asked for, primarily API consumers. The search engine has had some domain based filtering for a while, based on the UT1 lists, but that isn’t a very comprehensive approach. We’ll land on a single…
A Tailwind CSS v4 plugin for CSS mask fades on scroll containers. Add one class and content edges dissolve into any surface.
Dear web designers:
New mailers, i18n, and Minitest. Your apps faster by default. Our most complete Hanami yet!
I wanted to know if WebAssembly runtimes are getting faster.
TLDR; get a list of 21,864 domains from the former Yugoslavia’s “.yu” top level domain: download the .CSV
In which I revisit one of my favorite bugs, the invalid surrogate pair.
Gareth Heyes - gareth.heyes@portswigger.net - @garethheyes It's quite common for webmail clients to render untrusted CSS in a trusted UI. They attempt to make this safe using CSS sanitization. In this
A closer look at Mozilla's Firefox 150 "271 vulnerabilities" fixes and what they do, and do not, tell us about the alarming claims we can read online and AI-assisted vulnerability research.
The accepted practice is to not add lazy-loading to images above the fold, especially the LCP image, since doing so can delay their loading until the browser has determined they are definitely in the viewport. One problem though is that "above the fold" depends on screen size: an image can be above the fold on desktop…
In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.
