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Building a custom code search index in Go
Abstract TL/DR I present what I belive is a unique index for indexing and searching source code. It copies ideas from Bing bitfunnel implementation to create a very fast, memory efficient trigram …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,470 posts.
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Caffeine Smalltalk – Livecode the Web
Livecode all the JS things from Smalltalk!
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JQuery 1.5 promises a better future.
One of the new features of the unreleased JQuery 1.5 is a new $.ajax module. Apart from many bug fixes, the most interesting, and useful par...
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Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited
It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined, and then published at its own home what's become known as the
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Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
Welcome to my new site, brought to you by vanilla everything. No Javascript frameworks, CSS libraries or flashy animations. Just markdown, html templa...
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Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video]
Everything you need to know about Windows 10.
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Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor
Back when Internet Explorer was dominant, and every developer I knew installed Firefox on every family member and their dogs desktop, I remember a big selling point for convincing people to use Firefox was ‘Tabs’.
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Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page
You ever notice that there's this funny threshold for getting to the front page on sites like HN? The exact threshold varies depending on how much traffic there is, but, for articles that aren't wildly popular, there's this moment when the article is at N-1 votes. There is, perhaps, a 60% chance that the vote will…
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Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)
This infamous answer [https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/7488] on StackOverflow have reached meme status. The question is about finding opening tags in XHTML using a regular expression, and the answer makes it abundantly clear that this is not possible - and you will surely go mad if you try. The
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Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"
Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
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I fear for the unauthenticated web
LLM and AI companies seem to all be in a race to breathe the last breath of air in every room they stumble into. This practice started with larger websites, ones that already had protection from ma...
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What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]
We just recently taped a new round of webmaster videos, and I thought this video deserved a full-fledged blog post. This is my rough estimate (as of early May 2013) of what search engine optimizers…
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Web Performance Profiling: Google.com
How is Google so fast? It’s so fast we take it for granted. It feels instant from the time you search to when results are displayed. What can we learn abou...
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Why you should NOT use NativeScript
It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App.
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Chrome client “variations” can be used to identify you (2020)
Until now I used Chrome with a few settings tweak like disabling sending usage statistics, uBlock origin, no crash reports and so on.
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we've built ...
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“Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" - nearly double the conversion rate.
The current system of cancer research has failed us. It's time we begin funding the "renegade" blue-chip scientists whose research shows real promise.
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Every new web app at PayPal starts with TypeScript
What happened that made TypeScript viable for me and worth migrating paypal-scripts for.
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Don't Build APIs
My first job at Microsoft was providing developer support for the early Windows SDKs. To do my job well, I spent hours studying the Windows SDK documentation, the Windows source code, and writing sample applications. I then spent hours poring over customers’ (such as Lotus, WordPerfect, and Computer Associates) code…
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Designing a Pure Python Web Framework
A deep dive into how Reflex works under the hood—from reactive state management to compilation of Python components into React.
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There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
In July 2011, Apple released Safari 5.1 bringing WebGL to OS X users. WebGL advocates the world over rejoiced - except there was a catch. WebGL was disabled by default, hidden behind a flag buried deep within Safari's preferences panel. The general expectation was that a switch to 'on by default' could not be far…
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JavaScript: Warts and workarounds
One's sentiment toward JavaScript flips between elegance and disgust without transiting intermediate states.
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No to "No UI"
A critique of 'invisible design' and the NoUI movement: invisibility propagates the myth of immateriality, ignores interface culture and takes agency away from users and designers.