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Rewrite It in Rails
In 2022 I started building an application for creating Customs declarations. After evaluating some options and writing code in various programming languages ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 437 posts.
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How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP 1.1 server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it's a text file that has some specific rules t…
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Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
Some quick thoughts on moving from Twitter/X to BlueSky and how I'll try to use social media after being burned once by Twitter.
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The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)
Early websites. In the beginning, website HTML was crafted by hand. Your average personal — or corporate — website might consist of hand-edited HTML subsequently uploaded, probably via FTP, to a web server which knew only how to serve static files.
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The web just gets better with Interop 2024
The web is amazing.
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WP Engine is not WordPress
It has to be said and repeated: WP Engine is not WordPress. My own mother was confused and thought WP Engine was an official thing. Their branding, marketing, advertising, and entire promise to cus…
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SVG Triangle of Compromise
All rituals restricted. All rites reserved.
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Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
Explore how Safari 17’s new anti-fingerprinting techniques affect audio fingerprinting and browser differentiation.
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HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained
Understand better how HTTP works in each version.
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The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app
Tony Alaribe challenges common myths about multi-page applications (MPAs) and explores how modern browser technologies can enable fast, interactive, and offline-capable web applications without relying on single-page application (SPA) frameworks. Alaribe discusses advancements in service workers, caching, and…
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Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
Joel Gustafson
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Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
By: Steven Bassett
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Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do…2024259 points72 commentsSoftware Engineering details
Hey! I'm Vasiliy Ermolovich or @nashby. Here you'll find some blog posts I write once per 10 years
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WASM Is the New CGI
I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around. > Wasm is the new CGI And to be cle...
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Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
Web Components are a set of browser APIs that allow us to create custom HTML elements. They are one of the major things that SPA (Single Page Application) frameworks have been giving us for a long time ... HTMX is highly interesting, useful and a promising technology. It simplifies many things and allows us to build…
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Kagi Translate
Today, we're introducing Kagi Translate. It's not revolutionary - it's simply a better translation service. Our combination of advanced language models and precise output selection delivers translations that surpass existing solutions, including Google Translate and DeepL....
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AI your home on street view
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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RSS is still pretty great
What the **** does that mean?
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Native dual-range input
Two native range inputs and fifty lines of JavaScript to make them work together.
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Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)
Late last year, I had an idea that’s been steadily brewing in my head. I’ve found myself with some free time recently (it coincided with vacation, go figure), and I’ve hacked together some proof-of-concept code. Whether or not it is actually proving the concept I’m not sure, but the results are somewhat interesting…
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How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
Notion engineers sped up Notion's browser speed with WASM SQLite
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Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
Google search is in the news. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google search is a monopoly and is behaving in a manner that suppresses search competition with their distribution agreements. The debate on this has started,...
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Rust needs a web framework
I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also like to make things in Rust, mostly for the web, and this is where we run into a problem.
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Building a single-page app with Htmx
People talk about htmx as though it's saving the web from single-page apps. Well, I guess I missed the memo, because I used htmx to build a single-page app.
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How Does Bluesky Work?
One of the reasons I am enthusiastic about BlueSky is because of the way that it works. So in this post, I am going to lay out some of the design and the…
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Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)
wingolog: article: tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm