Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
In the good old days, applications were simple. A browser sent a request to a webapp endpoint; the latter fetched data from a database and returned the response. The rise of mobile clients and integrations with other apps upset this simplicity. I want to discuss one solution to handle the complexity in this post. The…
Today, we are launching a pilot program to give developers a way to promote their add-ons on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). This pilot program, which will run between the end of September ...
React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm!
TL;DR: if you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon.
The landscape has changed for self-serve business website design and hosting. Our review of three most practical DIY approaches, suitable for a simple static website up-to a full Content Management System (CMS).
One of the biggest surprises at WWDC last year was Apple’s announcement that its new map would cover “ the entire U.S. by the end of 2019 ”:
An important message on Pop!_OS, Linux, and one downright fantastic community.
Chromebooks were designed to keep up with you on the go—they’re thin and light, have long battery lives, resume instantly, and are easy to u...
At Oktavilla we regularly start new projects. Over the years we have therefore come up with a few best practices to ensure that it is easy to take part in ou...
Mobile has changed the game for both consumers and brands. Consumer expectations for immediacy and relevance are higher than ever, and succ...
COLOKSGP menghadirkan wajah hiburan digital dalam balutan inovasi teknologi, estetika modern, dan perkembangan industri permainan slot online di Asia. Lebih dari sekadar nama, COLOKSGP mencerminkan dinamika dunia permainan virtual yang terus berevolusi, mengutamakan pentingnya kemudahan akses informasi, transparansi…
This tutorial looks at how to get started with Django's asynchronous views.
It started simply enough...
On November 18, 2019, Apple’s new map expanded to parts of the Midwest and much of the Western U.S.:
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is…
I believe the day-to-day practice of writing JavaScript is going to change dramatically for the better when ECMAScript.next arrives. The coming year is going...
Porting an existing iOS app to Flutter, what it was like and my thoughts on Flutter thus far.
Learn about the challenges of webhooks for service-to-service notifications. And why an `/events` endpoint is often preferable.
One day I saw a few pictures shared by my friend Fish. I was attracted by their slight blur and the subtle glowing effects, and wondered what kind of filter function was used. But then she told me it's just because the camera lens wasn't wiped clean.
NOTE: Some code and conclusions expressed here are not idiomatic React. See the follow-up post for more details!
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