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Why Vite
Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,470 posts.
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Build WebRTC app backend services | Articles
WebRTC enables peer-to-peer communication. It requires servers so that clients can exchange metadata and coordinate communication through a process called signaling . Servers also help clients cope with network address translators (NATs) and firewalls.
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Firefox and Chromium
Firefox is sometimes recommended as a supposedly more secure browser because of its parent company's privacy practices. This article explains why this notion is not true and enumerates a number of security weaknesses in Firefox's security model when compared to Chromium. In particular, it covers the less granular…
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Beyond HTML5: Database APIs and the Road to IndexedDB
IndexedDB is an evolving web standard for the storage of significant amounts of structured data in the browser and for high performance searches on this data using indexes. Mozilla has ...
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Reddit Inc Blog Homepage
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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You Might Not Need Redux
People often choose Redux before they need it. “What if our app doesn’t scale without it?” Later, developers frown at the indirection Redux…
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Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center
*Feb. 13 update: I posted more details about Directory Tiles here.* We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make ...
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Frequently asked questions by the Press
Note: Many of these questions are now answered in much more depth in my book, Weaving the Web
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Metacrap
Version 1.1, May 18 2001. Changed section orders for better organization. (Thanks, Raffi). Clarified "metrics" in 2.6 (Thanks, Andy).
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Classifying the Internet of Things
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
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The protocol-relative URL
Update 2014.12.17: Now that SSL is encouraged for everyone and doesn’t have performance concerns , this technique is now an anti-pattern . If the asset you need is available on SSL, then always use the https:// asset.
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privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
For more information about this, have a look at David Baron's post, the bug and the post on the security blog. For many years the CSS :visited selector has been ...
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Readability: The Optimal Line Length
The length of text lines substantially impacts their readability — yet this is often overlooked in e-commerce. See our latest test findings on line length readability.
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The Web’s the Place
I’ve been following some discussions about the future of software applications, and a phrase that came up in my dinner with Robb Beal has been echoing in my mind. What it comes down to is this: if you want to develop software, you can build for the Web and/or Unix and/or OSS platforms; or alternatively, you can be a…
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How Do Lava Lamps Help with Internet Encryption?
The Cloudflare lava lamps are used for Internet encryption. Learn about entropy in cryptography and why randomness is essential for SSL encryption.
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Clean Coder Blog
Over the last several years we’ve seen a whole range of ideas regarding the architecture of systems. These include:
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RSS 2.0 Specification (Current)
The current version of the RSS 2.0 specification (2.0.11), published on March 30, 2009.
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Subresource Integrity Addressable Caching
A small number of popular JavaScript frameworks and libraries account for a substantial portion of the network, battery, and time budgets of users of the contemporary Web. Many applications include these libraries even if they only use a small portion of the functionality they provide. Large improvements seem possible…
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Popularity – Brendan Eich
It seems (according to one guru , but coming from this source, it’s a left-handed compliment) that JavaScript is finally popular .
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Figma is powered by WebAssembly
Because our product is written in C++, which can easily be compiled into WebAssembly, Figma is a perfect demonstration of this new format’s power.
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Gaining security and privacy by partitioning the cache | Blog
Chrome's HTTP cache partitioning helps with better security and privacy.
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jQuery file size
Note: The gzipped and Zopflinated file sizes refer to the total byte size of the file after compressing it using gzip or Zopfli with the default settings . For gzip, this boils down to gzip -6 file.js — the default compression level is 6 on a scale from 1 (fastest, but less compression) to 9 (slowest, but best…
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Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity
Today, v2 of Pwned Passwords was released as part of the Have I Been Pwned service offered by Troy Hunt. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the industry combats modern threats against password security.
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JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16?
Does JavaScript use UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding? Since I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this question anywhere, I decided to look into it. The answer depends on what you’re referring to: the JavaScript engine, or JavaScript at the language level.
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ImperialViolet
Thomas Ptacek laid out a number of arguments against DNSSEC recently (and in a follow up ). We don't fully agree on everything, but it did prompt me to write why, even if you assume DNSSEC, DANE (the standard for speaking about the intersection of TLS and DNSSEC) is not a foregone conclusion in web browsers.
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The Rule of Least Power
Copyright © 2006 W3C ® ( MIT , INRIA , Keio ), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability , trademark , document use , and software licensing rules apply.
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Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time,...
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Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern
Explaining the Dependency Injection pattern, by contrasting it with Service Locator. The choice between them is less important than the principle of separating configuration from use.
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Creating a React App
The library for web and native user interfaces