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Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
Over the past year and a half I've been spending more and more of my time working with Mozilla's latest project, Firefox OS. During that time I've fallen in love with the project and what it stands for, in ways that I've never experienced with a technology platform before.
AI fair value $183 vs ask $100 — fse.guru looks under-priced for a ultra-short .guru.
What could be simpler than returning HTTP status codes? Did the page render? Great, return 200. Does the page not exist? That’s a 404. Do I...
Hi, I'm Jonathan! I'm a developer who's passionate about building great user interfaces.
This is an interesting demonstration of the capabilities of afl ; I was actually pretty surprised that it worked! $ mkdir in_dir $ echo ' h...
Note: This is being published with the permission of Facebook under the responsible disclosure policy. The vulnerability is now fixed. ...
I've decided to stop using dark mode across all of my devices, because research suggests that going to the dark side ain't all that.
The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
I was watching Alex Petros’ talk and he has a slide in there titled “Incantations that make HTML work correctly”. This got me thinking about the basic snippets…
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to…
Use HTML5 localStorage to completely fill up Chrome, Safari, and IE users hard disks. Trololo...
Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents . Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. Tangle is super-simple and easy to learn.
Obey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example
The VP of Engineering at Cognition, the applied AI lab behind Devin. Building the future of software engineering with AI.
The IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications, and they’re on their way to the RFC Editor, where they’ll soon be assigned RFC numbers, go through some editorial processes, and be published.
The current state of app bloat.
This post briefly summarizes part of a talk I gave in 2018. All information in this post has been accessible on YouTube since then. There is no new information or news in this post. On Mastodon recently, jsveningsson@mastodon.social asked me: Having an annoying argument on Threads about Apple generated passwords…
My current "investment thesis" is that what we call web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers. When it comes to eking performance out of hand-authored JavaScript and accompanying runtime libraries, we've reached the point of diminishing returns.
What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimization"? For most of us it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…
We helped frontline to fight against covid-19 by creating a Realtime Patient Monitoring system. In this blog post you can find out how we did it using go and vuejs
