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Deno on MDN
Web compatibility data for Deno is now available on MDN.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Introducing Webpack Dashboard
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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Orion 1.0
After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here. What started as a vision initiated by our founder, Vladimir Prelovac, has now come to fruition on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Today, Orion for...
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Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
In this essay, Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad, explains why the company decided against using htmx for its new project, Helper, in favor of React and Next.js. He shares the challenges faced with htmx, including issues with developer experience, user experience limitations, scalability, and AI tool support. While…
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We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations
Starting in 2020, we at Pushbullet began receiving more and more Play Store policy violation notifications from Google. At first the violation notifications seemed plausible, if a bit abrasive. At this point though, I’m pretty sure we’re being picked on by an AI. We’ll see what you think after you hear our story.
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Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website
Treat your paying customers as well as you treat potential customers.
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Servo's progress in 2024
Summary of Servo’s progress in 2024: some numbers, main highlights and plans for the future.
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Web Framework Benchmarks
Round 1 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Project!
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Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
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Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail.
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Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
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Teachable Machine: Teach a machine using your camera, live in the browser
Teachable Machine, an experiment that makes it easier for anyone to explore machine learning. Teach a machine using your camera – live in the browser, no coding required.
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Firefox for Mobile now supports NoScript, PrivacyBadger, HTTPS Everywhere
Back in February, we announced support for the first extension for Firefox Preview, the new and rebuilt mobile browser for Android that is set to replace Firefox for Android later ...
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Phoenix 1.3.0 Released
Phoenix 1.3.0 is out!
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Rails 7 Released
This version of Rails has been years in the conceptual making. It’s the fulfillment of a vision to present a truly full-stack approach to web development that tackles both the front- and back-end challenges with equal vigor. An omakase menu that includes everything from the aperitif to the dessert.
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LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some other hog wash. The simple truth, there's no reason to be collecting data that can be used to identify…
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WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
Following HTML, CSS and JavaScript, WebAssembly becomes the fourth language for the Web which allows code to run in the browser
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Gmail Add-ons
Few things are as satisfying as completing a task. But at work, it’s not always so easy. The days are short and packed with to-dos, like following up on sales leads, logging support tickets or sending invoices. And while great apps exists to tackle these workstreams, most users have to flip between them and their…
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Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
November marks one year since we launched Brave 1.0, the most private, safest, and fastest (3-6x) browser. Over the past year, we've seen amazing growth on multiple fronts and we're happy to celebrate Brave 1.0's first anniversary by announcing that we officially passed 20 million monthly active users (20.5), up from…
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Facebook Dating
Facebook Dating makes it easier to find love through what you like.
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Introducing Facebook Shops
We’re launching Facebook Shops and investing in features across our apps that inspire people to shop and make selling online easier.
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Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be phased out starting with Firefox 73.
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New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
Thunderbird is going strong at version 52 (ESR) and 57, 58 beta In April 2017 Thunderbird released its successful Extended Service Release (ESR) version 52. This release has just seen it’s fifth “dot update” 52.5.0, where fixes, stability and minor functionality improvements were shipped. Thunderbird 57 beta was also…
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MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.
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Introducing Safari Technology Preview
Starting today, there’s a new, convenient way to see what features and improvements are coming to Safari and other applications that use WebKit.
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Chromecast Support for Firefox
A browser extension that enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like YouTube, Netflix or BBC iPlayer).
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Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL
GraphQL support is in development for PostgreSQL + Supabase.