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Mapping Mountains
To view mountains from above is to journey through time itself: over ancient shorelines, the trails of glaciers, the marks of countless seasons, and ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
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Reverse engineering GoDaddy's tracking script
An article by Igor Kromin has provided an insight into a practice by GoDaddy involving injecting Javascript into customer sites. Several people expressed interest in a breakdown of the script - so here it is. Please review Igor’s original blog for further background
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Walken on Rails
Our new screencast series features narration by Christopher Walken.
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The Offline Cookbook: caching and serving offline-first
Update: Together with Udacity I created a free offline-first interactive course . It involves taking an online-only site to full offline-first glory. Many of the patterns in this article are used.
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Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
TL;DR; - they prevent companies from denying services to people that use technology to block tracking and ads. ...
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Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS
Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.
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Is Web3 Bullshit? (Transcript)
'Is web3 bullshit?'. A talk by Molly White on the Crypto stage at Web Summit in Lisbon on November 4, 2022.
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Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design
How a misguided attempt to achieve cross platform UI leads to terrible experiences and kills the open web
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Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
Every few months or so, somebody asks on social media why a particular DVLA digital service is turned off over night. Rather than answering it every time, I’ve decided to write this post, so I can point people at it in future. It’s a great case study to show why making government services digitally native can be quite…
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Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
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…
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The bloat of AMP
AMP had just been popularised at the time I was considering rebuilding this site. It sounded like as a great idea. Faster websites are right up my alley. And who doesn’t want an SEO boost? I mean, I still can’t make Get Cryptolocker show up on Google. And no, I don’t want to buy your Wordpress theme, even if it is…
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The history and legacy of jQuery
jQuery has lately fallen out of favor in web development, but it still powers an estimated 74 percent of sites and paved the way for modern web frameworks.
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Node.js isn't a silver bullet, but it's still a bullet.
This morning, on a conference mailing list, I made some disparaging remarks about Node.js (the title of this post, in fact). A couple people asked me why I felt that way. Rather than respond individually, I'll just list my reasons here — codeslinger.posterous.com
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Copying objects in JavaScript
In this article we will look at the various ways an object can be copied in Javascript. We will take a look at both shallow and deep copying. While shallow copying is rather straightforward, deep copying is more tricky. Currently, there is a HTML5 specification for a deep copy algorithm but it is not publically…
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Why I am switching to promises
I'm switching my node code from callbacks to promises. The reasons aren't merely aesthetical, they're rather practical:
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Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps
From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web…
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Android vs iOS: A Developer's Perspective
Since its inception, Whereoscope has been an iPhone-only shop. The genesis of this iPhone-fetishism goes all the way back to the very first iPhone: in a way, it was the potential that device tantal…
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Firefox OS for TV: UX Overview
Introduction The user experience of Firefox OS on the television platform comes from Mozilla's vision of the Connected Home. This departure from our smart phone interface focuses on ease of ...
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Undo Send in Gmail
Posted by Michael Leggett, User Experience Designer Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after . Other times I send a message an...
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The Sad State of the Backbone Ecosystem
For the past 2 years, ~90% of my coding time has been spent working on a large scale Backbone.js app. In February 2014, the Backbone community was in a fairly good place. The core library had reached 1.0 the previous year and had a strong team around it. Marionette had emerged as a de-facto standard for web…
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Java call stack – from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture (2006)
Created this by pasting together a few screenshots from a NetBeans profiler session – of a Spring + Hibernate web-app running within JBoss. Quite interesting to see how the business logic is …
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Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
Design unique user interfaces with dropdowns, dialogs, forms, navigation menus, tooltips, and more, all in a visual builder.
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One Year Without AMP
A bit over a year ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project on this site. I have a long history with AMP and at some point I was one of it’s main critics. I’ve since accepted…
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An API is only as good as its documentation
Your APIs are only as good as the documentation that comes with them. Invest time in getting docs right. — @rubenv on Twitter
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Google Wave's Scrollbars
In spite of some of the reaction to it , I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don't really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can't discern any overwhelming advantages of Google's implementation. It seems I'm not alone. The…