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Deno Is Webby
The Deno team recently shipped Deno by example : Deno by example is a collection of annotated examples for how to use Deno, and the various features it…
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Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
Cloudflare Pages 😍 I got into Cloudflare pages because it lets you host static websites with all the latest optimizations conveniently and for free. Setting up a static website with a custom domain is easy, and you get the benefits of automatic SSL, CDN, and latest version of HTTP3. This is how this blog is hosted and…
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What's TypeScript compiling? Use a treemap to find out
Has TypeScript gotten slow for you? Run this one magic command to visualize what TypeScript is compiling, and maybe get to the root of the issue.
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Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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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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Tree views in CSS
How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS
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WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas
WebGPU is an upcoming Web API that gives you low-level, general-purpose access GPUs.
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Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
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.
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You don't need that CORS request
A low code optimization
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10% of the top million sites are dead
Top 1 million domains? More like the top 1 million lies
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Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use
There is no other software that I use and pay for that can compare to Apple Music when it comes to severe bugs and annoyances. The worst of the Apple Music clients is that on macOS.
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Hacking the Apple Webcam (Again)
$100,500 Apple Bug Bounty for hacking the webcam via a Safari Universal Cross-Site Scripting (UXSS) bug. CVE-2021-30861, CVE-2021-30975
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Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons
Except me. As of one minute ago I confirmed what I noticed last Wednesday. According to the all seeing Google, on the entire world wide web there are but three Creative Commons licensed images of a…
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Aspect-ratio is great
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like a lot of the time learning new CSS features doesn’t involve just learning a what a single property does, more like getting to grips with a collection of properties and how they work together — even learning a whole specification. That’s certainly not a complaint from me: it makes…
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Visual Sum of Cubes
This article discusses a ‘visual’ derivation of the formula for 1³+2³+…+n³.
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How UTF-8 Works
If you're anything like me, you love emojis! Emojis appear like an image on the screen, but they aren't an image like a PNG or JPEG. What do emojis look like to computers? 

0x820x820x980...
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Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs
A few times a week, someone asks on the #gui-and-ui channel on the Rust Discord, “what is the best UI toolkit for my application?” Unfortunately there is still no clear answer to this question. Generally the top contenders are egui, Iced, and Druid, with Slint looking promising as well, but web-based approaches such…
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Phoenix 1.7 is View-less
Phoenix 1.7 is dropping Phoenix.View, but it's for a good reason! Controllers and LiveViews will now render function components. And the aim is to collocate templates next to the controller that renders them!
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Pay attention to WebAssembly
Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.
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Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
Today I tried to help a friend who is a great computer scientist, but not a JS person use a JS module he found on Github. Since for the past 6 years my day job is doing usability research & teaching at MIT, I couldn’t help but cringe at the slog that this was. Lo and behold, a pile of unnecessary error conditions…
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Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
Just over two years ago I left a role at a London based startup where I lead development of a large, React based e-commerce frontend to join Google to work on Chrome DevTools. My initial focus was to introduce Web Components as the new fundamental building block of all new DevTools features and UI. With the recently…
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I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
We were magicians and the web was our magic
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Non-Consensual Personalization
Illustration from unDraw I want to personalize things I use. I want to change the settings. I want to change the colors, the desi...
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The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
“Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” That’s Google’s stated mission. But what if the world's information becomes…
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When network is faster than browser cache (2020)
We assume that browser caches are near-instantaneous, but data shows that retrieving an object from cache can take hundreds of milliseconds!
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WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
wingolog: article: webassembly: the new kubernetes?
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There's no way to report spam on Google Drive
Recently, I've been getting a lot of spam notifications from Google Drive. Here's a sample: The notifications come direct to my Android phone via the Drive app - they don't appear in my Gmail spam folder. There is no way to report the abuse. If I go to the list of notification in the Android apps, there's no option to…