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Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome
Google Chrome gives Google Search (when set as the default search engine) a network performance-boost over competing search engines.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 573 posts.
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Should we rebrand REST?
What's wrong with the term "REST API", and what should we use instead?
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Netmask NPM package, used by 270k+ projects, vulnerable to octal input data
The following research outlines a vulnerability discovered in netmask npm package that is currently used by 278,722+ other projects. The vulnerability has been present for 9 years. Since this package is so incredibly widespread, I would suggest every nodejs developer to check their package.jsons to see if they use…
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Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI
Uncover security and reliability issues before they impact your business with CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale™.
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Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors
Tips anyone can use to level up their web automation and web scraping game
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Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)
In a world with tools like NPM that are supposed to make websites fast why have they gotten so slow?
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Procedurally generating a rounded box mesh
If you haven't heard the story about Steve Jobs, Bill Atkinson, and rounded corners, it's a fun read . A big takeaway is that rounded corners are everywhere . Let's take a look at procedurally generating a rounded box mesh.
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The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
Change for change’s sake alone is masturbatory. That with Safari 15 it actually makes usability *worse*, solely for flamboyant cosmetic reasons, is downright perverse.we
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Unifying iPadOS and macOS
Timo Zimmermann talking about software engineering, leading teams, consulting and start ups.
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Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07
The Plasma Mobile team is happy to present the Plasma Mobile updates for July 2021. Read on to found out about all the new stuff included in this release: Shell First and foremost: Marco Martin made the shell more responsive by improving the performance of the top panel.
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Coming to Terms with Tailwind
For a while, I blocked the Tailwind keyword on Twitter. I was a bit mad that @tailwindcss and author Adam blocked me on Twitter after I wrote a bit of criticism that got popular.
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Notches Gone Wild
This holiday season we have a special gift for Mac users everywhere, especially ones with a new MacBook Pro and notch. We’re proud to announce the immediate availability of Notchmeister. So what does Notchmeister do? Think of it as a fun way to spruce up your notch. Or as a screen saver for something you […]
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The Importance of Learning CSS
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
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Live previews with Rails and Stimulus 2
Who wouldn’t want a live preview for writing their great content? If you happen to be running Rails with Hotwire, it’s surprisingly easy with a small Stimulus controller.
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The small web is beautiful
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
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Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
A new report offers solutions to the problems that hound social media, from the spread of misinformation to the lack of competition.
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Always Use “Buttons” for Size Selection
Individual "buttons" are a common design for selecting sizes, but are they really better than drop-down menus? See our latest usability test findings on product page size selectors.
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Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)
This infamous answer [https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/7488] on StackOverflow have reached meme status. The question is about finding opening tags in XHTML using a regular expression, and the answer makes it abundantly clear that this is not possible - and you will surely go mad if you try. The
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Why you should NOT use NativeScript
It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App.
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Chrome client “variations” can be used to identify you (2020)
Until now I used Chrome with a few settings tweak like disabling sending usage statistics, uBlock origin, no crash reports and so on.
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A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security b...
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How Laravel Livewire works
<p>The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It’s as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works.</p> <p>A...
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The Decline of Django
Let's face it, it’s not very exciting to be a Django developer today.
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Building Webhooks into Your Application: Guidelines and Best Practices (2020)
Learn how to build a webhook, send it from your app, manage authentication, handle security, and provide a smooth developer experience to your customers.
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Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market
Mobile OSes and their most successful apps have drained browser choice of meaning for more than a decade. This has lead to confusion for users and loss of control over data. Web developers, meanwhile, face higher costs and reduced ability to escape walled gardens. It's time for the charade to end.