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Django 3.2
Posted by Carlton Gibson on April 6, 2021
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 573 posts.
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
Learn web scraping using Python in this step-by-step tutorial. Use Requests, Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, and scraping APIs with practical 2026 examples.
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…
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How to win at CORS
The 'how' and 'why' of CORS, from start to finish.
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Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
Today, with the launch of Firefox 87, we are excited to introduce SmartBlock, a new intelligent tracker blocking mechanism for Firefox Private Browsing and Strict Mode. SmartBlock ensures that strong ...
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Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
Don't do it like GitHub Copilot!
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
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Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries many differences and modern out-of-the-box features that we’re glad to see used on a site of this magnitude. Dave Amirault…
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Spaces launch in Element
Spaces rethink grouping rooms and people, fundamentally improving Element and Matrix to better group conversations instead of viewing all rooms all of the time.
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Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
Apple today announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.
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The End of AMP?
I am hopeful that 2021 will be the beginning of the end for two of my least favorite things – the pandemic and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). For the past
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Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
We're excited to announce Astro as a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience.
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The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
At Vivaldi, we stand up for the privacy rights of our users. We do not approve of Google’s new FLoC technology. It creates privacy risks for users on the web.
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Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, and much more
Deno 1.8 adds experimental support for the WebGPU API, adds support for importing private modules, stabilizes import maps, revamps coverage tooling, adds ICU to provide internationalization out of the box, and a whole lot more.
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My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
I'd be interested in a decentralized social network with network-layer anonymity, grassroots content delivery, and customizable moderation.
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Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
Computers would be so much better if they never had to deal with users, amirite?!!? I remember, years ago, working on a mobile web service which had a URl bar - so users could tap in bbc.co.uk on their T9 keypads - and a separate search bar. I thought that was pretty nifty. But it turns out, users tried searching for…
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Firefox 94
With 94, you’ll find a selection of six fun seasonal Colorways (available for a limited time only). Now you can find a color to suit (or lift) your every mood. Fun fact: Did you know we have more daily users with color themes than dark or Alpenglow on Beta? With Firefox 89, 32% of users clicked through to customize…
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Why we switched from Webpack to Vite
At Replit, our mission is to make programming more accessible. We provide people with free compute in the cloud so that they can build apps on any device. Among the most popular ways to create apps on the web today is React. Historically, however, React tooling has been slow on Replit. While the JavaScript ecosystem…
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Downsides of Offline First
Discover the hidden pitfalls of local-first apps. Learn about storage limits, conflicts, and real-time illusions before building your offline solution.
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FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
macOS 27 Golden Gate with all-new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence and new features for a more responsive, delightful experience.
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Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
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Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
Add WebAssembly, get performance. Is that how it really works?
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Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service
We are piloting an advertising program that we expect will enable us to continue providing basic users with access to our robust platform.
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Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead