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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,469 posts.
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Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For?
UPDATE March 28, 2013: Many people have commented here and emailed me that it no longer works for you. I have made an update to fix the bookmarklet for those with Facebook Graph Search. You can get…
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Django 1.9 Released
Posted by Tim Graham on Dec. 1, 2015
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Scrapy Tips from the Pros
Scrapy Tips from the Pros: Part 1 - Learn from seasoned web scrapers with our expert tips series. Optimize your scraping projects for success.
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Your website is not for you
A note from a developer who keeps watching good design die in boardrooms.
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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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Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39
We are looking for feedback on the Temporal proposal to improve date & time handling in JavaScript.
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RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain Unicode characters encoded in UTF-8. There’s another question, though: “ Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”
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Making Websites Small
Practical notes on smaller websites: reduce page weight, optimize images, and simplify frontend dependencies.
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How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works
A peek into the homegrown solution we built as the first design tool with live collaborative editing.
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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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Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
Today we are excited to announce a collection of high quality open source web fonts in the Google Font Directory , and the Google Font API ...
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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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Kill sticky headers (2013)
There is currently a trend for using sticky headers on websites. There's even a sticky header web startup .
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Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
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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“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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Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
One of the things that I’m passionate about in my role at Microsoft is helping developers ensure that their sites provide an awesome experience in every browser. Yeah, yeah I know it seems odd th…
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The web just gets better with Interop 2024
The web is amazing.
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JSX over the Wire
Turning your API inside-out.
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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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The sad state of web app deployment
I spent a good chunk of the last four days installing an Internet web forum, which claims it can be up and running in 30 minutes. I like to think I’m pretty alright at computers. So what went wrong here? Well let me tell you.
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Bootstrap 2.2.0 released
Aww yeah, our first release since leaving Twitter is here with Bootstrap 2.2.0! We originally planned to release this as 2.1.2, but given the timing and scope…
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SVG Triangle of Compromise
All rituals restricted. All rites reserved.
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HTML5 Features you need to know
Adnane Belmadiaf's blog.