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Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). ...
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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The Age of PageRank Is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
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Sign in with Google in Chrome
Many websites such as Yelp show an annoying “Sign in with Google” banner when you visit.
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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff Watts
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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic , and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1) , and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.
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Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
Remix is joining Shopify
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Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
Learn about an open source RSS and podcast app that is no longer supported, Winds.
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GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
All GitHub Pages sites served from the github.io domain will now have a Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header set. Pages sites using a custom domain will not be impacted. Learn more about…
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Contextual Identities on the Web
The Containers Feature in Firefox Nightly enables users to login to multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously and gives users the ability to segregate site data for improved privacy and security. We all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations. The way I speak with my son is much…
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"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.
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DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
Google has created a new tracking mechanism called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users. It's bad for privacy, which is why we're now blocking it in the DuckDuckGo extension.
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Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at
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TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem
TomTom is redefining not just how maps are made, but the entire ecosystem around them too. It'll lay the foundation for a future of innovative location tech.
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We analyzed 425k favicons
The humble favicon was messily birthed with the pernicious IE5 release. Since that fateful day, browsers have slowly expanded favicon technology to encompass many wildly differing and lightly documented use cases. Here in 2021 favicons are found primarily in browser tabs, home screens, and Google search results, but…
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Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color
In 1999 — back when Snake 🐍 was the best thing about your phone 📱 — there were three phone carriers in Japan 🗾 . On these phones were tiny, beautiful pictures called emoji (meaning “picture” and “character” in Japanese 🥰 ). These 176 images were very simple — think 8-bit tech — and as a result were exquisitely…
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Firefox for iOS now available
If you’re an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch user you’ll be happy to learn that Firefox for iOS is now available in the App Store worldwide. Firefox for iOS lets ...
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Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
With the Phoenix v1.5 release, learn how easy LiveView makes it to build interactive, real-time applications.
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Flask 1.0 Released
The Flask framework has been stable for a long time. A little more than 8 years after the first commit, the version number finally reflects that. 1.0 comes with a significant number of changes representing over a year of work.
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Google rewrites many page titles
Because titles are typically the first things users see in Google results, titles can have a large impact on click-through rates and the number of vis
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SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS
WebAssembly , a.k.a. WASM, is a standard defining a low-level programming language suitable (A) as a target for cross-compilation from many other languages and (B) for running via a virtual machine in a browser. Designed with scriptability via JavaScript in mind, it provides a way to compile C code (among others) to…
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What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
What Rails 8 ships and requires: built-in authentication, Solid Queue, Kamal 2, and production SQLite, plus support timelines and an upgrade checklist.
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Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
Strengthen your privacy, improve your performance and give your website a personality by using Bunny Fonts. The only fully GDPR fonts powered by a CDN!
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Google vs. the Open Web
A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...
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The cost of parsing JSON
The dominant costs of processing JavaScript are download and CPU execution time.
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iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
Turning off your Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios when you’re not using them is good security practice (not to mention good for your battery usage). When you consider Bluetooth’s known vulnerabilities, it’s especially important to make sure your Bluetooth and Wi-Fi settings are doing what you want them...
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Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
New versions of Brave will hide—and, where possible, completely block—cookie consent notifications. Brave's approach is distinct and more privacy-preserving than similar systems used in other browsers.