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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 541 posts.
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HN Alternative UIs
hn.algolia.com HackerNews with a search function and 16.8+ million posts indexed. Alexa: 8.7k
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Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dangerous
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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The web as a GUI toolkit
The web is kinda weird because it was originally created as a typesetting system, rather than a GUI toolkit. While this definitely has its drawbacks 1 and isn’t suitable for everything , I personally rather like the “web as a GUI toolkit” exactly because of its typesetting roots; it provides some features that few…
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Common mistakes writing React components with hooks
The most common mistakes I found while writing react components, why they are mistakes and how to avoid or fix them.
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How to deploy a React app for free
Check out these different ways to deploy a React app for free, including using Vercel, Firebase, and Cloudflare Pages.
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React-flow: a library to create interactive node-based graphs
We just open sourced "React Flow" : A library for rendering interactive node-based graphs with a smooth panning and zooming behaviour and…
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How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
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The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks
Tim Kadlec writes about performance, product management, and the web.
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Scammers registering date-based domain names
Yesterday, January 2nd, my wife received a billing alert from her phone provider. Luckily, she's not with EE - because it's a pretty convincing text. That domain name is specifically designed to include the day's date. If you're stood up on a crowded train, with your phone screen cracked, would you notice that a . is…
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The Native File System API allows web apps to save directly to files
The File System Access API enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files on the user's local device, such as IDEs, photo and video editors, text editors, and more. After a user grants a web app access, this API allows them to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the…
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Promoted Add-ons Pilot
Today, we are launching a pilot program to give developers a way to promote their add-ons on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). This pilot program, which will run between the end of September ...
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State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
The landscape has changed for self-serve business website design and hosting. Our review of three most practical DIY approaches, suitable for a simple static website up-to a full Content Management System (CMS).
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Async Views in Django 3.1
This tutorial looks at how to get started with Django's asynchronous views.
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What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?
I have a theory that a grave mistake was made in 1995 - the decision not to have a neat, succinct and declarative way of representing html elements in javascript. [On reading the hacker news comments this is pretty historically inaccurate, however, I think this article still stands as "look just how close javascript…
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Humans Are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter
Been a lot of "victim blaming" going on these last few days. The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. Here's where it all
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What is the value of browser diversity?
In May 2019 I attended a talk by Mike Taylor who works on webcompat at Mozilla. Mike told the sordid story of window.event, a non-standard IE invention that was replicated in Konqueror, which showed up in Webkit, which stuck around in Blink, and was now Mike’s problem in Firefox. It was a good story fraught with ups…
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JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor
HelloSign is a Dropbox company that provides a Web-based eSignature solution: If you have a document you want someone to sign, you upload the document file, then show you an editor in which you place all the fields to build the form the recipient will fill out—signatures, dates, initials, etc. You send this prepared…
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How to make a web app work offline
Service workers, caches, IndexedDB and PWA.
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Django Async: What's new and what's next?
With Django 3.1, you can put async code in production if you don’t have to do heavy-lifting with some parts of Django that don’t support async yet.
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You probably don't need PostGIS
PostGIS is a fantastic, battle-tested suite of GIS extensions for Postgres. It handles most aspects of it, and is widely used, for example in OpenStreetMap’s Mapnik. But for your project, it’s most likely overkill. In a Q and A fashion, let’s discuss reasons for (not) using it.
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API design is stuck in the past
The industry has embraced statically typed languages, but API design remains twenty years in the past. Schema driven development presents an opportunity to pull API design into the present.
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How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL
A roundup of some of the key ways in which Swift 5.3 enhances the overall experience of building views using SwiftUI.
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How We Got the Favicon (2017)
The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.
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Google Update Tanks Traffic
Yet another existential threat to PainScience.com.
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