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The State of HTTP in 2022
So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 596 posts.
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A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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Design of This Website (2021)
Meta page describing Gwern.net, the self-documenting website’s implementation and experiments for better ‘semantic zoom’ of hypertext; technical decisions using Markdown and static hosting.
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Supabase Edge Functions
Today we're launching Edge Functions. Edge Functions let you execute Typescript code close to your users, no matter where they're located.
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Apple is not defending browser engine choice
Some folks claim that Apple's mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial to the cause of ensuring a diverse pool of web engines. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but to understand why, we need to understand how browsers are funded. With that understanding, we can see that not only…
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What will a Chromium-only Web look like?
Most of the complexity and nuance of the Web is stuffed into browser engines. Even though they’re a huge burden to develop and maintain, the world is lucky enough to have three major ones, and they’re all Open Source.
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“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast
I don't care about cookies has been acquired by Avast and remains free to use.
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Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
SerpApi’s Google Search API results serves all the results Google serves to users…But the amount of searches are quite different than what is being told below the search bar.
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Write HTML Right
Even with a lot of help from a good text editor, writing HTML can be a drag. Nice documents end up as tag-swamps with little bits of content perched atop hills of tabs. Editing them becomes a test of patience and we get sick at the thought of having to look at our once-loved text. It doesn't have to be like this!…
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Let's make the web personal again
As we're building Nym , an open-source spiritual successor to Blogger & Wordpress, we'd like to revisit the ideas of our forebears whose ideas have paved the path for us to build the next generation of personal website & blogging software on.
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We disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing
Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience…
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Matrix: Third Room Tech Preview [video]
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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WordPress’ market share is shrinking
There’s no more denying it: if you look at W3Techs CMS market share numbers, WordPress’ market share is shrinking, losing 0.4% market share since February. I do
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Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing
On Tuesday, December 7th 2021 I discovered a critical vulnerability in Cloudflare’s Email Routing service. This vulnerabilty enabled anyone to modify the routing configuration of any domain using the service. A bad actor could have overwritten the destination address to their own email address in order to read any…
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The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019)
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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How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn the best hands-on techniques to bypass Cloudflare Bot Management. Understand how it works, its sensor data, and evade detection.
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Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
When exposing large data sets through APIs, it needs to provide a mechanism to paginate the list of resources. There are multiple…
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An example of why RSS is useful and important
Let’s say I want to be an informed, engaged local citizen. Let’s say my town has a website set up where they post local updates and alerts that I might care about. Specifically, let’s say there was a water main break a few days ago that led to everyone in the town being asked to … Continue reading An example of why…
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Cool HTML elements nobody uses
Were you left in tears while searching for cool HTML elements? Don’t worry! This article contains 7 elements to up your Coolness…
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Building a fullstack app with Flask and Htmx
Build a full-stack app with Flask and HTMX for server-rendered interactivity without a JS framework, then deploy it to Code Capsules.
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More content by people, for people in Search
We’re improving Search so you’re less likely to find content made primarily for search engines, and more likely to find helpful, authentic information.
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TypeScript Features to Avoid
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
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Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
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Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the Cloud
We have just launched Neon to provide you with the best Postgres experience in the cloud. You can sign up to our waitlist right now and experience serverless Postgres enabled by the separation of storage and compute. The service is still gated by the waitlist as we are onboarding more and more users every day, and we…
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Element (Matrix) adds video/voice rooms
We're so excited to announce that Video Rooms is entering beta in Element, just as a new Room Search is exiting beta!