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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?
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
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Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative
Do you develop your Vue.js app in a lo-fi ES5 environment without cool features like single-file components? Or do you use Webpack and spend forever on config? Brunch is a simple build tool that provides a happy medium.
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GetElementById vs. QuerySelector
A while ago, I was curious how the speed of document.getElementById compared to document.querySelector in Javascript for selecting a single element by ID. querySelector has to do a lot more work, so one would expect that it would be slower, but I didn't know if the difference was enough to care about.
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The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know
I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know…
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Progressive React
Building progressive and performant sites with React
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Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool
Google, in an effort to regain control of the antitrust narrative, has brazenly and deceptively enlisted small businesses to argue the company's case.
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Towards richer colors on the Web
Preface Introduction Colors on the Web CSS Color Color in Chromium Render pipeline Richer colors Some ideas from WebKit High precision colors in Skia Summary In Closing
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VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC
WebRTC is one of the most exciting things to happen to the Web in years: it has the potential to bring instant voice and video calling to anyone with a browser, finally unshackling us from propriet…
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Django Best Practices
Deep insights from our research and experience
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Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
If you haven't tried the Firefox Developer Tools in the last 6 months, you owe it to yourself to take another look. Grab the latest Aurora browser, and start up ...
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Microsoft's New Killer App
This message is coming to you via a simple NodeJS application that's live on your Droplet! This droplet is all set up with NodeJS, PM2 for process management, and nginx.
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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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DigiNotar root CA trust removal follow-up
Earlier this week we revoked our trust in the DigiNotar certificate authority from all Mozilla software. This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted ...
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You probably don't need PostGIS
PostGIS is a fantastic, battle-tested suite of GIS extensions for Postgres. It handles most aspects of it, and is widely used, for example in OpenStreetMap’s Mapnik. But for your project, it’s most likely overkill. In a Q and A fashion, let’s discuss reasons for (not) using it.
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Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch
Update, July 6: This is now resolved . Go to the App Store and redownload any affected apps — they should show up in the Updates tab. Do not delete and reinstall: it’s no longer necessary and you may lose data in those apps.
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Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas
It's here! 🥳 Today, we're excited to announce that WebGPU support has officially arrived in the PlayCanvas Editor.
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Backbone vs Ember
Ember and Backbone are both promising JavaScript frameworks but have completely different philosophies. In this post, I'll compare the two, both from a practical and philosophical perspective. I'll defer to real world experience with Backbone and SproutCore (Ember's predecessor), as well as basic experiments with…
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Firefox 6 - WebSockets are back
What's new in Aurora 6? The most notable addition to this new Aurora are the <progress> element, window.matchMedia API, better APIs for binary data, Server-Sent Events as well as the ...
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Debugging with Elm 0.18
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Mod_python - the long story
This story started back in 1996. I was in my early twenties, working as a programmer at a small company specializing in on-line reporting of certain pharmaceutical data. There was a web-based application (which was extremely cool considering how long ago this was), but unfortunately it was written in Visual Basic by a…
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HTML5 Rocks: A resource for open web developers
Because HTML5 and its related technologies cover so much ground, it can be a real challenge to get up to speed on them. That’s why today we'...