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Stop using icons in data tables
We have been sold a lie that icons are the universal language of the modern interface.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)
"If you don't perceive using the Internet in the 2020s to be a constant fight, you have absolutely no online privacy whatsoever." Lynx br...
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I Just Want to Search
Learning to search was a key skill growing up as a teen in the 2000s. How to use accurate keywords, quotes, the entire lot of search operators. Google-fu was a hard earned skill (yes, I read a book) and helped me figure out a surprising amount of life.
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Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks
Personal site and blog
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Mincss "clears the junk out of your CSS"
A project I started before Christmas (i.e. about a month ago) is now production ready.
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Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
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Firefox nightly is now built with clang LTO on all platforms
You might have read that Mozilla recently switched Windows builds to clang-cl . More recently, those Windows builds have seen both PGO (Profile-Guided Optimization) and LTO (Link-Time Optimization) enabled .
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TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids
Oops, I think I just turned the legendary personal wiki system into an offline-first, installable, encrypted, synchronized Progressive Web App
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Every fucking website: 2026 edition
Every AI-generated landing page, all at once, labelling itself as it goes.
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Emscripten (LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler) 1.0
It's been almost a year since I started Emscripten (which, if you haven't heard of it, is a tool to compile LLVM to JavaScript), during whic...
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Subverted Design
Making sense of our shifting priorities.
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Tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors
Tips anyone can use to level up their web automation and web scraping game
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Chinese Window Lattice and CSS
谁向云端着此亭，檐前树木映窗棂。 -- 释绍嵩《陪赵知府登桃岭山亭》 (image from 中国窗棂) The traditional Chinese window lattice has a symmetrical beauty, as well as a very beautiful formal name -- 窗棂.
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Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 3
“We learn most when we have to invent” —Piaget In Part 2 you created a minimalistic WSGI server that could handle basic HTTP GET requests. And I asked you a question, “How can you make your server handle more than one request at a time?” In this article you will …
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On Browser Tabs
It's always surprised me how little I hear about browsers.
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No Lodash
The copy-paste library, containing various Lodash replacement functions, a copy-paste framework, and more.
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Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)
In a world with tools like NPM that are supposed to make websites fast why have they gotten so slow?
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Https hurts users far away from the server
Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.
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Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations
I think Apple Watch prices are going to be shockingly high — gasp-inducingly, get-me-to-the-fainting-couch high — from the perspective of the tech industry. But at the same time, there is room for them to be disruptively *low* from the perspective of the traditional watch and jewelry world.
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OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.
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The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange
Searching Google recently it struck me that I rarely see results from Experts Exchange . I used to see a lot of these, because I typically search on things like error messages or programming issues for which the site is a useful source.
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My favourite 3 lines of CSS
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