Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 499 posts.
This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests but can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial…
Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?
This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts...
GraphQL solves a real problem, but in many enterprise setups that problem is already handled by BFFs. After years using Apollo in production, I think the tradeoffs often outweigh the win.
Unleashing Film Grain Synthesis on Netflix and Enhancing Visuals for Millions
# TLDR Datastar is a new hypermedia framework that makes building real-time web applications simpler and more efficient. It prioritizes server-side logic, uses “signals” for automatic UI updates, and leverages Server-Sent Events for lightning-fast performance. If you’re looking for a streamlined alternative to…
So there are only 2 web browser engines, and it seems likely there will soon only be 1, and making a whole new web browser from the ground up is effectively impossible because the browsers vendors have weaponized web standards complexity against any newcomers. Maybe eventually someone will succeed and there will be 2…
When people turn data into HTML tables using JavaScript, they either use the DOM methods (createElement() and the likes), but most of the time just append a huge string and use innerHTML, which always is a security concern. However, did you know that HTML tables also have an old, forgotten API ? Using this one, you…
A couple of days ago, the small server hosting this website was temporarily knocked out by scraping …
While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links.We un…
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
Today, we're excited to introduce Lynx, a family of technologies empowering developers to use their existing web skills to create truly native UIs for both mobile and web from a single codebase...
Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong
I should have titled this post “I hate S3”. 📢 What is the status quo? FTP is dead (yay), SFTP is too dependent on SSH and unix authentication. AWS made S3 pervasive and now every webapp that needs to store files assumes you’ll be able to connect it S3. This …
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor
Last week, we published CVE-2025-29927 and patched a critical severity vulnerability in Next.js. Here’s our post-incident analysis and next steps.
Why Icons Alone Aren't Enough.
Phishing PassKeys credentials using browser intents
Ten years ago this week, in May 2015, the JSON Web Token (JWT) became RFC 7519 . This was the culmination of a 4.5 year journey to create a simple JSON-based security token format and underlying JSON-based cryptographic standards. The full set of RFCs published together was:
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
For approximately six hours on 25.9.2025, the entire statichost.eu domain was flagged as deceptive by Google Safe Search. This meant that anyone using Google Safe Search was shown a very aggressive warning or outright blocked when trying to access any site on the statichost.eu domain. In some cases even custom domains…
Working with Django in the modern JavaScript ecosystem without giving up the things that make it great
Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.
I needed to choose a framework for a mobile-first app at work. I started comparing Next.js, SolidStart, and SvelteKit, then expanded to 10 frameworks. The measurements revealed dramatic differences in bundle sizes, performance, and the real cost of framework choices.
