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How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
Developer and writer.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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Designing very large JavaScript applications
Originally published on my blog Industrial Empathy.
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Openstreetmap is having a moment
The Billion Dollar Dataset Next Door
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All you may need is HTML
Readers occasionally request which static HTML generator is used by fabiensanglard.net , and if they can take the same stylesheet/ fonts to start their own blog. I usually send back the whole 134 lines of gen.php [1] and invite them to copy whatever they need to get started [2] .
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Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
Preamble: The whole affair is Google’s fault and not Bear Blog’s. Huge thanks to Herman—Bear Blog’s founder and dev—for his patience and help. A month afte...
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Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
In 2020, with better alternatives available, using Google Analytics (GA) to track your web usage is n...
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The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom
Eric Bailey recently wrote on CSS-Tricks about testing your website on a crappy laptop and it reminded me of this anecdote from my own life. About a month ago…
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Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
This is an extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. (Send improvements to @charliepark .)
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Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?
I think it’s now possible to train a large language model with similar functionality to GPT-3 for $85,000. And I think we might soon be able to run the resulting …
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Let websites framebust out of native apps
Back in 1996, the website TotalNews.com had a brilliantly evil idea. Why not make a single website that itself contained all the top American news websites, directly embedded within?
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Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I'm not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I could do something I'm much better at; hacking the system!
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Emoji Under the Hood
Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji
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JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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I fell in love with low-JS
About 5 years ago I was working on a project written in style still common for today:
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Dear JavaScript
This article has been moved to: http://thejameskyle.com/dear-javascript.html
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Why is Claude an Electron app?
If coding agents make native ports cheap, why does Anthropic still ship Claude as an Electron app? Because code is cheap but maintenance isn’t.
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Web developer tool secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
This is a talk that I’ve given at CityJS this September. I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback.
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SVG has more potential
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
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Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
Monet’s paintings evoke a sense of energy and life, they leap off the canvas with color and contrast, but Monet somehow managed to avoid using the color black for nearly his entire painting career. By avoiding black in your own designs, you can replicate some of this dynamism. Monet and Other Impressionists Explored…
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The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia
Right now, Wikipedia is busy asking for donations to stay afloat. Here’s a thought. If it wants donations, maybe open things up so that outsiders feel like they can contribute expert knowledge without wasting their time.
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WP21
It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it’s now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking Michel’…
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The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
There's a wonderfully powerful and subtle technique in Google Mail that can be used to enhance every reply you make to a mail: if you selec...
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Ignore AMP
In 2018, my recommendation was to avoid AMP, to use AMP for the most relevant pages, or to use AMP only. In 2020 my recommendation is to ignore it, because AMP largely appears meaningless now. <cite>Upgrade Your HTML II</cite> gives an opinionated idea why.
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Why TUIs are back
Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are making a comeback. DHH’s Omarchy is made of three types of user interfaces: TUIs, for immediate feedback and bonus geek poi…