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I don't like AMP. I think that Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages are a bad idea, poorly executed, and almost-certainly anti-competitive. So, I decided to join the AC (Advisory Committee) for AMP. I don't want them surrounded with sycophants and yes-men. A few weeks ago, a bunch of the AC met in London for our first…
A practical guide for craftspeople seeking to avoid the most common pitfalls when designing modern frontend applications.
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
My point is not that infinite scroll is stupid. It may be great on your website. But we should have done a better job of understanding the people using our website” – Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer at Etsy A few weeks ago, Etsy engineer Dan McKinley gave a talk on “Design for Continuous Experimentation.” It’s …
This piece is about how to build a modern web application with Common Lisp in the backend, from scratch.
Writing userscripts to optimize my data entry workflow with the FDA's 510k database.
Several years ago, the CSS :visited pseudo-selector caused a bit of a ruckus: a malicious web page could display a large set of links to as...
After much trial and error, I've finished basic #ActivityPub support on Write.as! (Though it's not live yet. Create a federated blog here...
Wow! This takes me back! Please check the date this post was authored, as it may no longer be relevant in a modern context.
We all uses notepad or sticky note or some editor to take immediate notes on something like code snippet, ideas, blog content, todo. Recently I came to know that we can use our browser just like notepad. The trick hacks around Data URI scheme and html contenteditable attribute.
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The words are a subset of the 10,000 most common words from Google's Trillion Word Corpus , with definitions sourced from Open English Wordnet .
Serving the right code to the right browsers can be tricky. Here are some options.
Pair typefaces effectively: Categorize fonts by properties. Use 3×3 grid method to find combinations.
Side-by-side screenshots of macOS Catalina and the Big Sur beta, covering Finder, Preferences, Control Center, Safari, Notes and more, with first impressions.
On Monday, I was pleased to be an uninvited speaker at <a href="http://devwaterloo.pbworks.com/">Waterloo Devhouse</a>, hosted in <a href="http://postrank.com">Postrank's</a> magnificent office. After making some surreptitious alterations to their agile development wall, I gave a tongue-in-cheek talk on how C++ can…
DuckDuckGo didn't log IPs, but favicons loaded from Amazon S3 leaked every search term in the Referer header. It was fixed two days after I posted.
Some best practices I've picked up after working on Django products over the past 18 months
You visit a seemingly simple website with little or no interactivity, yet somehow it sends you 2 MB of JavaScript to digest. You're half way down the article that you're reading and suddenly: client-side rendering kicks in, resets everything. You try to find your way back but the page is now janking around. Your…
Yes you! You need a webring
