Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 541 posts.
Did you know there’s an algebraic structure for functions? That may not surprise you at all. But it surprised me when I first found out about it. I knew we used functions to build algebraic structures. It never occurred to me that functions themselves might have an algebraic structure. The structure is fascinating…
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
Side-by-side screenshots of macOS Catalina and the Big Sur beta, covering Finder, Preferences, Control Center, Safari, Notes and more, with first impressions.
You visit a seemingly simple website with little or no interactivity, yet somehow it sends you 2 MB of JavaScript to digest. You're half way down the article that you're reading and suddenly: client-side rendering kicks in, resets everything. You try to find your way back but the page is now janking around. Your…
Prolog Web Applications
Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files?
Thanks to recent work in Chrome and Emscripten, you can now use up to 4GB of memory in WebAssembly applications. That’s up from the previous limit of 2GB. It might seem odd that there was ever a limit - after all, no work was needed to allow people to use 512MB or 1GB of memory! - but it turns out that there are some…
The conventional wisdom for app subscriptions is to price affordably, like $1.99/month, and hopefully attract lots of subscribers at a low price. Then by having low pricing, fewer will reject the idea of subscriptions, and you’ll make up the difference with volume. But this is the wrong
Noting Google's continued support for Microformats as a metadata format.
UPDATE 5/28: We are going to resume the rollout with the stable release of Chrome M84. More details . With the stable release of Chrome 8...
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
If the text is neatly neatly isolated inside an HTML element, it’s easy; this will do:
A look-back at caching strategies from the past; with recent changes in Chrome's and Safari's caching strategies, there is no caching benefit from using publicly available third-party libraries anymore.
Essential metrics for a healthy site
Link to: https://inessential.com/2020/03/19/proxyman
Starting September 30, 2020, you can configure Firefox for Android Nightly to install extensions listed on addons.mozilla.org.
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People who are involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t available under a unified open-source license. Here we explain why.
WebKit has implemented tracking prevention technologies, spanning from 2003 with Safari 1.0 until today.
The File System Access API enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files on the user's local device, such as IDEs, photo and video editors, text editors, and more. After a user grants a web app access, this API allows them to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the…
Firefox is sometimes recommended as a supposedly more secure browser because of its parent company's privacy practices. This article explains why this notion is not true and enumerates a number of security weaknesses in Firefox's security model when compared to Chromium. In particular, it covers the less granular…
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
The Cloudflare lava lamps are used for Internet encryption. Learn about entropy in cryptography and why randomness is essential for SSL encryption.
