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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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Dead Framework Theory
These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web. In October last year I wrote “will developers care …
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Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0
I shit you not – SPACEJUMP was a verb.
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The continuing tragedy of CSS
A golden age of CSS was evident in Amsterdam, but to whose benefit?
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Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter which makes the life of developers easier by automatically formatting your javascript files for you. This post should help you understand everything you need to know about using prettier in a project.
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window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world
Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside.
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Chrome's Most Important Feature
True words. I still remember the time when Chrome had just launched. I could not locate the reload page option in context menu. Just after a couple of hours, and probably a reboot later, it appeared magically. Something similar happened with Spell Check. I had no idea Chrome was auto-updating in the backend. And when…
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Consent, GDPR and Google Analytics
A discussion about the Austrian Google Analytics case, and if consent of the user would have made the difference.
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Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels
Why not something like Newsstand for TV network apps?
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Static HTML Comments
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)
In this post we describe and demonstrate a neat trick to exfiltrate sensitive information from your browser using a surprising tool: your smartphone or laptop’s ambient light sensor. In short: 1. We provide background about the light sensor API and current discussions to expose it more broadly to websites.
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How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in JavaScript
If you are writing an application in Javascript, soon you will have to worry about memory leaks. But it is difficult to even know if a memory leak exists. This handy method can help.
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How far back in time can I take my website's design?
A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.
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Daring Fireball: iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations
Notes from today’s WWDC keynote.
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Ruby on Rails: View Components, Storybook and Tailwind - a match made in heaven?
In this post, I’m going to cover the use of some popular open-source technologies, that when combined together provide an extremely powerful developer experience. This will be orientated towards Rails, but it should be possible to swap out View Components with something else for your stack.
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Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
I find myself saying this quite often these days to entrepreneurs and their product teams. It's something that I've noticed working with leading social platforms like Etsy, Twitter, Tumblr, and others. Services such as these have a large number of their users accessing the service regularly on a logged out basis. I…
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Composability: From Callbacks to Categories in ES6
Exploring Functional Programming ideas like Monads and Kleisli Category in JavaScript. Starting from an alternative solution to Promises.
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Achilles Heel of OAuth or Why Facebook Adds #_=_
This is a short addition to the previous rants on OAuth problems. We've got Nir Goldshlager working on our side (he simply loves bounties...
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Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes
Reverse-engineering the Spotify Wrapped API to understand how the year-in-review story is assembled from listening data and rendered client-side.
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Forward and Reverse Proxies Explained
The fundamental difference between forward and reverse proxies
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How to create a more effective homepage
A step-by-step guide on improving your homepage content & copy to increase conversion