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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
Evolving Programmable Search Engine Programmable Search Engine helps hundreds of partners – from academic institutions to retail websites – ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 377 posts.
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The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh…
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Vite+ Beta
Vite+ Beta brings the tools needed to create, develop, check, test, and maintain modern web projects into one fast and consistent workflow.
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Why are we still using Markdown?
Burak Güngörs lab where he does some stuff
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Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
Thinking about UX, a slight delay on a simple tooltip can be nice so that mousing over something quickly doesn't trigger it, but if there are related tooltips nearby, maybe we don't need to wait.
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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
A complete crawl of every restored link from 2009 to 2014 found that 76.7% no longer return a loading page.
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The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same …
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We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?
We've identified 15,579 websites that are currently infected with malicious JavaScript and between them, we conservatively estimate that they receive more than 135 million visits every month. We know they're infected, and we have the evidence to back that up, but there's a problem: how on
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Web Security is Too Hard
It started innocently enough. I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare. Neat! I clicked through to the site and there it is: And huzzah!, my preferre…
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Light Mode InFFFFFFlation
Back in the day, light mode wasn’t called “light mode”. It was just the way that computers were, we didn’t really think about turning everything light or dark. Sure, some applications were often dark (photo editors, IDEs, terminals) but everything else was light, and that was fine. What we didn’t notice is that light…
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CSS Optical Illusions
A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.
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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
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The new HTTP QUERY method explained
In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the new HTTP QUERY method, explaining the history behind it as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using it.
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Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
I've been trying to make progress on a herculean task; I want decent looking programs for personal use which I can generate quickly using AI agents yet I'm a person without taste controlling an AI without taste. I found "one weird trick" that does enough for me, the results are not extra nice but it doesn't make me…
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Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
Experimental simulation of emergent complexity through graph-rewriting automata.
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We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2
We migrated http://railway.com, the dashboard, and the canvas from Next.js to Vite + TanStack Router in two PRs. Here's why, how, and what we learned.
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Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance
Modern browsers support reactive web interfaces without React, Vue, or Angular. Web components and shadow DOM make frameworks optional.
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Astro 7.0
Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.
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Flutter 3.47
Modular by design: Standalone UI Packages and Impeller on Desktop
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Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native
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The Future of Email
As AI starts reading and actioning our inboxes, email authentication becomes the trust layer that the future of email depends on.
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Phoenix LiveView 1.2
LiveView 1.2 is a small release that adds support for colocating CSS.
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GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
My little corner of the internet.
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Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig
We replaced LibDOM with a custom Zig implementation for better cohesion across events, Custom Elements, and ShadowDOM. Here's how we built it and what we learned along the way.
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Workers Cache
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
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Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
Let's design the successor to email on top of HTTP, fixing the design flaws SMTP has been dragging along for 40 years. Piece by piece. The goal is…
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Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
My blog just scored a perfect 100 on every Lighthouse category. I love blogging. I wanted to build a blog that’s light, fast, free of clutter, able to run multiple blogs, and fully accessible on top of that. And finally, at long last, I’ve more or less pulled it off. It was quite a tedious proces...
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Working With AI: A concrete example
In this essay, Carson Gross walks through a concrete bug fix in hyperscript to show where AI helped, where it fell short, and why keeping a knowledgeable human in the loop is what kept complexity in check.
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June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
We now have a new way for you to help us write the monthly updates :)