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300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
How two simple steps improved the responsiveness of Wikipedia's mobile site
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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Google Groups has been left to die
Where should the formal methods community move?
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Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts
Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness
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CSS is DOOMed
Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div — DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Using 3D transforms, CSS math functions, @property, clip-path, anchor positioning, and SVG filters to build a fully playable 3D first-person shooter in the browser without Canvas or WebGL.
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Why haven't local-first apps become popular?
Offline-first apps promise instant loading and privacy, but in practice, very few apps get offline support because getting sync right is surprisingly hard.
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Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
Expired Registration Recovery Policy
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The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)
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Why Medium Sucks
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State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
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Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
I have been part of the Firefox Test Pilot team for several years. I had a long list of things I wanted to build. Some I didn’t personally want to build, but I thought they were interesting ideas. I didn’t get very far through this list at all, and now that Test Pilot is being retired I am unlikely to get to them in…
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Every HTML Element
An interactive page demonstrating every HTML element.
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HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3
The protocol that's been called HTTP-over-QUIC for quite some time has now changed name and will officially become HTTP/3. This was triggered by this original suggestion by Mark Nottingham. The QUIC Working Group in the IETF works on creating the QUIC transport protocol. QUIC is a TCP replacement done over UDP…
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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
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URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
This Christmas, a family member sent me a URL to a family Zoom call. However, they didn’t send me a direct link to Zoom. Instead, they sent me a
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Goodbye, CSS-Tricks
I woke up yesterday to the news that DigitalOcean has cut a bunch of jobs from the payroll. It sounds like a pretty big wave, and yes, my job was lopped off
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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.
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How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google
Welcome to Nenad SEO. This will be the first among numerous reports, SEO case studies and articles that you’re going to read on our blog. * After receiving a manual penalty by Google for 2 small si…
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The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
Google Analytics is a powerful yet quite complicated tool. And unfortunately, the truth is most people who use it don’t reap its full benefits. There’s a lot of excellent and free content out there that explains how to use Google Analytics, but most of it is rather narrowly focused on use cases that primarily apply to…
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Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%
Edited to add: I wrote a followup post to address comments here and elsewhere that advertising is working as intended. This paper has been ...
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A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
In essence, a phishing attack is a kind of hack used by cybercriminals to trick victims into performing a certain activity. These emails are frequently sent