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URLs: It's Complicated
Let's play silly games with URLs...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
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A Comparison of Go Web Frameworks
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU
Using ONNX with WebGPU and WebAssembly leads to 20x speedup over multi-threaded and 550x speedup over single-threaded CPU performance. Learn how.
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The Elements of APIs (2021)
Would you like the design a web API that is reliable and pleasant to use? I have some ideas for you.
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Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver
Tiddlywiki is a great tool, but because it runs in the browser, it has only limited access to the filesystem to save changes. This has led to dozens of tools called "savers" that work with Tiddlywiki to save it. These span the gamut, including full fledged desktop apps (most notably TiddlyDesktop ), browser…
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New things in Android 11
The latest release of Android offers easier ways to help you manage your conversations, connected devices, privacy, and much more.
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Google Hangouts Chat
Teams want to be able to get their work done in one place, which is why we introduced the Early Adopter Program of Hangouts Chat to bring teams together. Today, we’re ma…
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Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
Today we got our first custom domain name handle registered on Bluesky. Domain name handles are a way for us to improve the state of trust and control users have over their social identities online.
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I'm betting on ATProto
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just someone who…
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The window chrome of our discontent
In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]
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New Features in Vue 3
The Vue.js Core team is bringing some exciting new features in Vue 3. Composition API, Fragments, Portals, and Suspense, to name a few.
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The Whole App is a Blob
Building a Tamagotchi-style language learning iOS app with SwiftUI character animation - on drill design, motivation loops, and where Duolingo gets it wrong.
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Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019)
Virtual Machine (VM) detection is nothing new. Malware has been doing it for over a decade now. Over time the techniques have advanced as defenders learned new ways of avoiding VM detection. A while back a friend and I were working on a project related to exploit delivery via a web application for redteaming purposes…
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The ﹤main﹥ element
Recently, main was formally added to the W3C HTML specification. Now that the dust has settled, it's about time we dive in to find out where and when it's appropriate to use main. Let's get started.
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Web of Documents (2019)
It was called Xanadu . It was a grand, holistic vision: of documents that, once published, are available basically forever; of bidirectional links that could glue together not just documents, but parts thereof; of managing copyright and royalties. It was complex. And it never really came to fruition.
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Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
a tale about a young transgender intern
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Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/
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Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
Building software is hard. Oftentimes things that seem like they should be simple end up being way more complicated when you get into the details. ( OK, maybe this isn’t specific to software. )
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Video Live Streaming: Notes on RTMP, HLS, and WebRTC
A Daily guide on live streaming, RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, low latency audio/video, and real-time calls, and well as their similarities and differences.
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Lessons from migrating a large codebase to React 16
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code
Further adventures in JavaScript
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High Definition CSS Color Guide
CSS Color 4 brings wide gamut color tools and capabilities to the web.
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All you need is links
When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system:
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WordPress to support SQLite back end
A few months ago, a proposal was published to make WordPress officially support SQLite. After the proposal received a lot of positive feedback from the community, we started working on an implement…
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