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Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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SwiftWebUI
Beginning of the month Apple announced SwiftUI at the WWDC 2019. A single “cross platform”, “declarative” framework used to build tvOS, macOS, watchOS and iOS UIs. SwiftWebUI is bringing that to the Web ✔️
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Please Stop Using Grey Text
For over 1000 years black text on white paper has been the best practice for printed texts worldwide. Since the advent of the web and WCAG…
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Download your favourite YouTube videos
Signal boosting Laura's post that you should absolutely download and archive the stuff that matters to you.
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Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
A fun little project that came out of a creative exercise around the word 'Overgrowth'.
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Tree views in CSS
How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS
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Google Is Not God of the Web
Almost exactly two years ago, I warned that Google was on track to replace God of us all. Last month, The Verge's Dieter Bohn reported ...
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10th Anniversary of JQuery
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release of jQuery. I announced it back at BarCamp NYC 2006 when I was still in college. It’s incredible to think of how far it’s come and just how many people have contributed to its success. To them I am forever grateful, thank you.
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Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
Sharing my thoughts on userscripts, a phenomenon the swept the internet back in the 00s.
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U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
One year ago, on 28 February 2025, Wikipedia user Moyogo updated the page for Angzarr with a citation to the type foundry H. Berthold AG’s 1950 symbol catalogue listing ⍼ as Azimut, Richtungswinkel , or “azimuth”, “direction angle”. Mystery solved!
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“Attention assault” on Fandom
Stop Using Fandom 2024-06-16 fandom is a wiki website (allegedly) if you are unfortunate enough to browse a fandom wiki without an ad blocker, you will experience what i like to call "attention assault" upon opening a fandom page (for me, it was the hollow knight wiki), you will note the very subtle aroma of a 1/3…
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iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
Nearly every modern smartphone is equipped with an accelerometer, which, as the name implies, is a sensor that measures acceleration. It’s most commonly used for detecting the device’s orientation. It also has many other uses, whether as a game controller in racing games, as a pedometer for counting daily steps, or to…
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Building a r/place in a weekend
On Friday I accepted a challenge to clone Reddit's /r/place in a weekend. And I did it, and its live, and its amazing: Being able to build this in a weekend isn't genius. Its possible because programming is made up of 2 activities: Making decisions (95%) Typing (5%) Reddit
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CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome
CSS Shapes allow web designers to wrap content around custom paths, but authoring them is not trivial.
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Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
ramblings by Adam Perry
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Lesser-known Web APIs
API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface which defines interactions between multiple software architecture layers. Programmers carry out…
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Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?
TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for both Firefox developers and add-on developers. On one side, this growing cost progressively killed any effort to make…
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Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
So HackerNews is currently down. It happens, we’ll probably find out why when it returns. For a while yesterday, all HN URLs were returning error messages from CloudFlare, apparently their CD…
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My blog is now generated by Google Docs
Welcome to my new blog! This is going to be a bit of an experiment for me. I have wanted to set up a blog for quite some time now but I never wanted to host my blog on some other website like medium (call it a vanity thing but I like seeing my name in that URL). I also didn’t really want to set up something like…
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New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match color perception
Okhsv and Okhsl Two new color spaces for color picking This post has an accompanying interactive comparison of color pickers. I would...
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
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NoScript is harmful and promotes malware
NoScript proudly calls itself a security extension advertising itself as an extension with “whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality…”
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HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties
They're completely different, but often coupled.
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