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No Cookie for You
The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 541 posts.
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Deno 1.0
Dynamic languages are useful tools. Scripting allows users to rapidly and succinctly tie together complex systems and express ideas without worrying about details like memory management or build systems.
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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
We at Pushbullet have received some bad news from Google. It appears our extension will be removed from the Chrome Web Store if we don’t make required changes within 14 days. Not good! The bigger problem? Google hasn’t told us what those required changes are.
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Goodbye, Clean Code
Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
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Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.
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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
There’s a sort of breathless industry-specific fact in software that goes around every so often.
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Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
In Google Chrome's "Cookies and site data" settings, accessible via the Preferences menu item or directly with chrome://settings/cookies in the address bar, you can enable the setting "Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome". However, I've discovered that Chrome exempts Google's own sites, such as Search and…
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If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
Nowadays especially it's nice to have things to read. New things, things from various sources and various voices, various minds talking about their thoughts and experiences, telling their stories, posting pictures and th…
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Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
An investigation into how Stripe tracks your users and what you can do to prevent it
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Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
But hey, at least Reddit gets less ad fraud!
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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
Francesco Napoletano is a highly competent staff software engineer with 20+ years of experience developing a wide range of tools and applications for the web stack.
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Servo’s new home
Servo has left the Mozilla nest.
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Old CSS, New CSS
I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with. I’ve been taking for…
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Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
AndreGarzia.com website
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Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
Security on the web matters. Whenever you connect to a web page and enter a password, a credit card number, or other sensitive information, you want to be sure ...
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TailwindCSS v2.0
Today we're finally releasing Tailwind CSS v2.0, including an all-new color palette, dark mode support, and tons more!
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Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
Adobe Flash Player End of Life general information
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Single Page Applications using Rust
Easy to follow guide to building SPAs using Rust, WebAssembly and Yew
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Things I wish I’d known about CSS
I learned how to build websites the old fashioned way: looking at website source code and trying to replicate the things I saw. I threw in the odd book for the stuff I couldn’t _see_ (like PHP/MySQL),…
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Don't use third party auth to sign in
If a website offers you to sign-in using Google (or any third-party service, say Facebook, Github, etc.), don’t use that feature.
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It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
A lot of people who were on the internet in the early 2000’s remember something called RSS. It stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it allowed conten
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Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
Today, Firefox is introducing Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) 2.0, our next step in continuing to provide a safe and private experience for our users. E
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The Return of the 90s Web
Are we ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early web again? There are trends that suggest we might just have come full circle - and I like it.
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Firefox 72.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
People often see passwords are the original sin of authentication on the web.