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Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
An exciting proposal is expected to land in Go 1.22 - enhancing the pattern-matching capabilities of the default HTTP serving multiplexer in the net/http package.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
We should look for ways to make reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop.
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RSS is awesome
Evan briefly discusses rss
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OpenCV in the browser using WebAssembly and web workers
Learn how to use OpenCV in the web without a lot of headaches.
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I switched from Htmx to Datastar
In 2022, David Guillot delivered an inspiring DjangoCon Europe talk , showcasing a web app that looked and felt as dynamic as a React app. Yet he and his team had done something bold. They converted it from React to HTMX , cutting their codebase by almost 70% while significantly improving its capabilities.
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How RSS beat Microsoft
Microsoft tried to own content syndication with ICE. How open RSS beat it, and what that war teaches us about open formats like email.
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Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js
I typically start new front-end prototypes with a single HTML file that I view using a file:// URL. I enjoy this practice of incrementally growing my projects, so I’ll keep working in that single file for as long as I can. Once it becomes unwieldy, I’ll split out the CSS and JavaScript into dedicated files. Then when…
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How I use HTMX with Go
My new book guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real world web application in Go — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies, create dynamic database-driven pages, and how to authenticate and authorize users securely .
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Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%
Learn the image optimisation strategies I employed to shrink the page weight on my homepage from 1.1 MB to just under 450 KB
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Web Performance 101
Learn how (and why) to make your app faster by optimizing JS, CSS, images/fonts and other things
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There's never been a better time to build websites
We're closing in on the end of 2021 and I'm as excited now about building websites as I've been in ~25 years.
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Second-guessing the modern web (2020)
What if everyone's wrong?
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Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.
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Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
Good performance practices are still needed when developing fast web experience.
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New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays
A regression in external display support on Apple Silicon M4/M5 generation chips prevents full HiDPI modes on 4K monitors, limiting users to either blurry non-HiDPI or reduced workspace HiDPI.
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Metro
A version of Windows 8 with nothing but Metro looks like an excellent design for an iPad rival.
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CSRF is really dead
A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had to enable it on
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I Stored a Website in a Favicon
Words from me as developer, student and human.
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A simple web we own
Today, the Web and Internet are owned and controlled by large for-profit corporations and a few governments 1 . Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification 2 .
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On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations
Firefox can now do offline and privacy-preserving translation of eight languages with more on the way. Powered by open-source and machine-learning.
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Making Love to Webkit
If the world is going to end in 2012, Acko.net will at least go out in style: I've redesigned.
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Natural language is the lazy user interface
A chatbot is the lazy user interface. It puts all the burden on the user to articulate good questions.
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Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
A lot of tech discussion these days is focused around scaling infrastructures to handle huge traffic. But it's important not to forget how far simple optimizations can go.
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Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.