Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 573 posts.
This book gives an introduction to design and creation of graphical user interfaces using the GTK widget tool-kit and the Nim programming language. The book has its focus on the Linux operating system (OS). While the Nim programming language does support all major operating systems, GTK has it main emphasis on the…
Solve all your shader problems with this one weird trick.
Today, we’re thrilled to be partnering with Let’s Encrypt, the world’s largest certificate authority.
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
Here’s a closer look at Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer.
Modern web applications typically rely on chains of multiple servers, which forward HTTP requests to one another. The attack surface created by this forwarding is increasingly receiving more attention, including the recent popularisation of cache poisoning...
Turning off JavaScript blocks ads but not device tracking. Discover how no-JavaScript fingerprinting works.
We've already covered the basics of tree data structure in three posts. If you haven't gone through those yet, I would strongly going through the…
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...
Date handling in JavaScript is a pain, it's time for a proper Temporal API
It's now roughly seven or eight years that I'm building dynamic front ends for the web. From digital art wallets to games (1, 2) and synthesizers, I've seen it all. And since my process
With native Rust support announced for Cloudflare Workers, one may be eager to jump in head first. I know I wanted to. However, I tested out a few use cases and found it too limiting. Either the desired APIs weren’t available, code size was too large, or the program couldn’t run within resource constraints. I remain…
Visual mode is a mouseless way of selecting any text on any page (with as few keystrokes as possible). Conceptually based on vi 's visual mode, Nyxt adapts it for the web.
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
Reflecting on one year of growth, going from live collaboration to end-to-end encryption, and the role of community contributions.
How special characters in file names can ruin your day.
One of the biggest surprises at WWDC last year was Apple’s announcement that its new map would cover “ the entire U.S. by the end of 2019 ”:
David Fowler doesn't have a blog. I think the psychic weight of having a blog ...
This article looks at how 1000 popular Chrome extensions impact the performance of the browser.
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
The opcache PHP extension implements various functionality to speed up PHP in a transparent manner. As the name indicates, its origin and primary purpose is opcode caching, but nowadays it also contains an optimizer and just-in-time compiler. However, this blog post will focus only on the opcode caching aspect.
As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive scripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.
Icon fonts became popular over a decade ago. But their convenience comes at a high cost to your visitors.
We’re happy and proud to announce Open Web Docs, to support a community of technical writers that is open and inclusive for all.
