Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
Let me begin by saying that I love Windows 8. I have it on all of my computers and I find that is the best OS for productivity and awesomeness. OS X is good looking and polished, especially with the Mavericks update (A.K.A. fake leather killer), but I find that it is lacking some productivity detai
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A few weeks ago, I put together a blog post describing my goals for NeoCities, and why I thought it was an important project. And I asked for your help , because we needed the funding to get the servers to put the site on solid footing.
React is very popular at the moment, and I can see why: its developer ergonomics are very attractive. JSX and vDOM are really nice to work with, and it certainly enables composability. But, being the performance-minded person that I am, I wanted to test the claims that it's default-fast.
A Lonely Planet project
Something something Amplify is bad
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
Its been a while since I mentioned Wayland in this space - of course that doesn't mean that work on GNOME Wayland support has stopped. Quite the opposite, in fact. The GNOME 3.15.4 release that is due this week will close a number of the remaining gaps: libinput 0.8 has been released, with most of...
I wrote about this problem in May, without showcases, just a theoretical post http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-not-use-rjs-like-techn...
For a long time one of the recommendations for a faster site has been to “serve your static content from a cookieless domain”. This sugges...
Our web app allows users can change the length of a song or find loops present in it for infinite listening, remixing, or for their next next video edit or performance. After uploading a song, there is an initial server-side analysis step after which...
`deno desktop` for building native desktop apps from web tech, first-class migration from npm/pnpm/yarn/Bun, CSS module imports, snapshot and parameterized testing, smaller `deno compile --bundle` binaries, and Node.js 26 compatibility.
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
A couple of tries at generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick with the mini_magick gem.
RSS autodiscovery is a technique that makes it possible for browsers and other software to automatically find a site's RSS feed, whether it's in RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 format.
Friends! Pals! CSS deviants! One thing I’ve always loved about CSS, besides its obvious and immediate effect on a webpage—wow this table is now red!—is that...
Random functions in programming languages are amazing.
Hot on the heels of Off-Main-Thread Painting, our next big Firefox graphics performance project is Retained Display Lists! I you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend reading David’s post abo…
continuing with the DNA theme… In Catalyst, a WebAssembly implementation of the OpenSmalltalk virtual machine, there are three linguistic levels in play: Smalltalk, JavaScript (JS), and WebAs…
We started Apollo in 2016 with the objective of lowering the barriers to making high-quality, modern apps. Since then, we have seen tremendous growth in our community with nearly 500,000 downloads per week and companies like Audi, the New York Times, Airbnb, and CNBC all making strategic commitments to GraphQL. With…
When it comes to static sites, there are a myriad of solutions for authoring and compiling, but talk about hosting these static sites, and we are still in the early 2000s. I discuss the challenges one faces when hosting, and even make a proposal to solve some of these.
I've learnt I don't need to keep up with the hectic pace of Front End development news.
A Date in JavaScript always represents a point in time (i.e. milliseconds since epoch). This is more apparent when printing out the full date string:
