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Javascript: call functions without using parentheses
A nice to know feature, good for impressing others
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
The story of how a couple of failed SaaS ideas and a bunch of ugly Less stylesheets turned into my life's work.
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Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.
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How I built a Hacker News mobile web app
Last month, I tweeted about one of my recent projects, the Hacker News mobile web app. It's a simple little app to read Hacker News' stories…
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Twitter's Secret “Guest Mode”
Twitter has an undocumented feature which lets you follow accounts without being logged in. Here's how I found it, and how you can use it. My crappy old TV has a crappy old web browser on it. One boring Sunday, I decided to see which websites worked and which didn't on a 6 year old browser. Anything using LetsEncrypt…
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How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?
Link to: https://benpackard.github.io/blog/2020-01-28-sign-in-with-apple/
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If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
How bots used our sign-up and forgot password pages to bomb real people's inboxes, and what we did to stop it. A practical guide to subscription bombing for founders and developers who think CAPTCHA is an "I'll do it later" task.
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Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam
Self-taught developer. Go, Rust, Python and Javascript. - hackermondev
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Micro Frontends
How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps.
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Four ways to build web apps
This is my opinionated list of four approaches to building websites and web applications. Publicly hosted on the internet, serving HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc over HTTP.
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Using the Web Audio API to Make a Modem
What do you do when you cannot copy text between computers due to lack of internet connectivity? I built a modem using the Web Audio API, allowing data transfer via audio.
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JavaScript fundamentals before learning React
All the fundamentals in JavaScript for learning React. Often React beginners realize that most of the learnings are JavaScript, because React has only a small API ...
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Is Rails still relevant in 2018?
Few days ago I’ve received email where I was asked for an advice from a web developer who was considering switching from Ruby to something else. I was asked ...
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The web starts on page four
After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the whole, we lost an amazing opportunity. In its place we have a consumption machine that creates bubbles and assumes new…
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John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language
At Khan Academy we’ve been investigating teaching Computer Science to students in some new and interesting ways. The most interesting aspect of which is that we’re likely going to be teaching them JavaScript as their first language.
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SwiftUI in 2022
Even if you already know a bit (or a lot) of SwiftUI, Stanford’s course is incredible, amazing, wonderful, AND FREE!
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Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness.
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Feed the bots
A week ago , I set up a dynamically generated nonsense maze to catch LLM scrapers. Now, requests to it make up 99.9% of my server's traffic, but my total request volume did not increase. The bots didn't come to my site because of the trap.
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The meaning of AMP
Google’s alternative facts.
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Come and help save Posterous from oblivion
A couple of years ago I got wind of the fact that geocities was about to die and along with many others I did my bit to save geocities, the site now lives on (or as much as I could save of it) as reocities.com.
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Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
The Avast extensions which were spying on their users are no longer available from Mozilla and Opera add-on stores. Google still has to take action.