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Writing HTML sucks and No-code doesn't help
We can do better than writing HTML manually, but there are no developer-focused solutions.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 596 posts.
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The State of WebAssembly 2022
WebAssembly has gone through quite a transformation this last year, while the wasm language landscape is slowly shifting, the more notable change is in what people are using WebAssembly for. The use of wasm for serverless, containerisation and as a plug-in technology has leapt considerably, with WebAssembly System…
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State of the Web: Deno
What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?
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TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps
This is a reverse chronological list of the major TinyBase releases, with highlighted features.
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What is the small web? (2020)
Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce…
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The baseline for web development in 2022
TL;DR:The baseline for web development in 2022 is: low-spec Android devices in terms of performance, Safari from two years before in terms of W...
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Things CSS could still use heading into 2023
Just a couple of ideas! They came to me while I was poking around thinking of something to say for Alex Trost’s Holiday Mega-Stream (my segment starts here). Styleable Resizers Ya know how a …
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Qt 6.3
Qt 6.3 has been released today. Check out this blog post on what's new!
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Static site hosting hurdles
When it comes to static sites, there are a myriad of solutions for authoring and compiling, but talk about hosting these static sites, and we are still in the early 2000s. I discuss the challenges one faces when hosting, and even make a proposal to solve some of these.
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The future of search is boutique
The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
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DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
Enjoy browsing again with an app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo's unique privacy protections.
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How Websites Die
I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms . It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.
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The PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript
You can now use PlanetScale in HTTP-only environments like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Netlify Edge Functions.
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But, aren't you folks web2?
And if you are, then why don't you convert to web3?
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The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE
There are big changes in store for the Web IDE in the coming milestones.
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Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN
At Mozilla, online privacy has always been one of our top priorities. Recently we announced Total Cookie Protection on Firefox Focus to combat cross-site t
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AVIF has landed (2020)
AVIF is the first browser image format we've had in 10 years. Let's see how it performs…
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What does Overture Map mean for the future of OpenStreetMap?
Personal blog of Andriy Holovin. A little about everything.
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CSS as the back end – Cascading Server Sheets
Here we go again! Another one of these, and promise, you will be questioning my sanity after this...
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IPFS and Their Gateways
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is according to the Wikipedia description: "a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system.". It works a little like bittorrent and you typically access content on it using a very long hash in an ipfs:// URL…
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Two Years and over 700 Websites Later
An exclusive membership for web pages weighing less than 1 megabyte.
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Noosphere, a Protocol for Thought
Your brain on IPFS
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Dozens of high-traffic websites vulnerable to ‘account pre-hijacking’, study
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting
Brave has further strengthened its fingerprinting protections by preventing users from being identified based on preferred browser language. Starting with version 1.39, Brave randomizes how your browser informs sites of what language(s) you’ve set as default, and what fonts you have installed on your system.
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Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps
I hate HTTP reverse proxies and want my webapps to listen directly on port 443. How can I make this work in a world of IPv4 scarcity?
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NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS
Everyone loves CSS! So I built a calculator where the CSS handles the logic without the help of javascript. In this blog post, I will discuss how I achieved this and maybe make a case for my sanity for making it.