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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 497 posts.
Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0
I shit you not – SPACEJUMP was a verb.
The Way Server-Side Analytics Should Be
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Achilles Heel of OAuth or Why Facebook Adds #_=_
This is a short addition to the previous rants on OAuth problems. We've got Nir Goldshlager working on our side (he simply loves bounties...
The RSS Apocalypse
Aldo Coresi explains: “The truth is this: Google destroyed the RSS feed reader ecosystem with a subsidized product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation. It then neglected Google Reader itself for years, after it had effectively become the only player. Today it does further damage by buggering up the…
Rails 3.2 Performance: Another Step Slower
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Browser Extension Password Managers Exposing Passwords Everywhere
Advancements in password cracking and frequent theft of password databases endanger single-factor password authentication systems. Password managers are one of the only tools available that can help users remember unique high-entropy passwords, and other secrets such as credit card numbers, for a large number of…
Firefox OS Update Adds New Features, Performance Improvements
Just weeks after the first Firefox OS phones hit the market, an update is being made available adding new features, support for a number of new languages and significant performance ...
The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0
You’re an SEO. You’ve mastered Moz’s starter guide to Search Engine Optimization . You deal with botched site migrations, messy title tags across thousands of pages, earth-shaking Google algorithm changes, and more on the daily. Who would have thought that one of the toughest parts of your job would be getting your…
Where did all the HTTP referrers go?
Good (and bad news): the general consensus in the web developer community is that any and every website should be HTTPS by default. Why? HTTP by itself isn't encrypted, leaving it open to eavesdropping, message tampering, and man-in-the-middle attacks. HTTPS, if you use it consistently , prevents these issues.
Bootstrap 3 RC2
We've just cut a new release for Bootstrap 3, RC2. It's a big release as lots has changed, but that should all be for the better. Thanks everyone who's given…
Analyzing mbostock's queue.js
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XSS in Gmail through Rapportive
A blog on security, malware, cryptography, pentesting, javascript, php and whatnots
Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler
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Goodbye to Painful Image Loads on Small Devices
We've been working in the responsive realm for a while now and one of the most painful parts of the process is dealing with images. Large images can cause extremely long load times on small devices that might not have a huge data bandwidth. There have been many "best practices for now" movements to deal with this.
Firefox Developer Tools, Part 2: Scratchpad and Style Editor
This is part two, out of five, focusing on the built-in Developer Tools in Firefox, their features and where we are now with them. The intention is to show you ...
Howler.js - Lightweight Javascript library for Web Audio and HTML5 Audio
[https://howlerjs.com]howler.js v2.0.0 Released [https://howlerjs.com] Browsers have come a long way over the years, and we are now able to achieve amazing results using all of the great new technologies often referred to as HTML5. However, generally speaking, audio still sucks. Thankfully, Google decided to create…