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Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher
I’m thinking the iPad Mini will be not just thinner and lighter than the iPad-as-we-know-it, but remarkably thinner and lighter than its competitors in the small tablet market.
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Web & Frontend
The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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Netmask NPM package, used by 270k+ projects, vulnerable to octal input data
The following research outlines a vulnerability discovered in netmask npm package that is currently used by 278,722+ other projects. The vulnerability has been present for 9 years. Since this package is so incredibly widespread, I would suggest every nodejs developer to check their package.jsons to see if they use…
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The end of the clearfix hack?
A new value of the display property has landed in Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightlies. In the Editor’s Draft of the CSS Display Module Level 3, display: flow-root is defined as: “The element generates a block container box, and lays out its contents using flow layout. It always establishes a new block formatting…
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Idiomatic Redux: Implementation and Intent
Thoughts on what Redux requires, how Redux is intended to be used, and what is possible with Redux
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React, JSX, and CoffeeScript
Tips on using React without JSX.
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Exploring Google Hangouts' easter eggs
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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Isolates, microVMs, and WebAssembly
I’ve been thinking about WebAssembly a lot lately.
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My Own Private CDN
Yet another edition of Why Would You Ever Want To Do That
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What Every Developer Should Know About URLs
Everything a web developer should know about URLs: their nine parts, special characters and encoding, and how relative URLs resolve to absolute ones.
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Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary size and promises “end-to-end encryption”; or a web-based password safe service which claims that it can't see your…
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Supporting IE Is Too Much Work
Bart van Zon, software developer
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The JavaScript era happened because we were fed a line
The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.
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Defaulting on Single Page Applications
If you’re trying to build a single page application (SPA), you should probably use a tool designed primarily for the job. Site generators focused on…
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Specifying JSON
I find myself tasked with polishing and publishing a little custom JSON-encoded language. It’s harder than it ought to be.
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GIMP 2.8: Preview
I wrote the other day about me upgrading my system in order to be able to run the Preview Release of GIMP 2.8 , I have it up and working, r...
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Poor Man's Web
The Small Web Renaissance, Finger, Gopher and Gemini. How they work and what makes them different from the modern Big Web.
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Htmx Is a Erlang
htmx, a disciple of hypermedia , available only in hardcover do not look for alternatives , has been manifesting itself into existence recently ( recently: after 10 years of work 1 ) and has finally reached critical mass 2 .
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Why I Don't Use React Router
Tech blog of topics that interest me - frontend development, functional programming, user experience, building cool things
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Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode
Things you should know about color when adopting dark mode.
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