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How I built the IMDb message boards, in 2001
Update: My erstwhile colleague Mathias wrote up his thoughts about his role in this story
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser
Many browsers today are gigantic resource hogs, which are basically VMs for various web applications. On the other hand, Links is a HTML browser. It is not able to do everything. It allows me to avoid most distractions and control the content-experience. The goal of this exercise is not to force anyone to use this…
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Should you self-host Google Fonts?
A deep dive into the performance implications of using Google Fonts (good and bad) and whether self-hosting is better.
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A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app
Single-page apps are all the rage nowadays. Many praise their vague technical benefits while ignoring tremendous development costs.
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Compiling Rust to Web Assembly
So you are intrigued what WebAssembly is and want to try it? Since December 22 it’s possible to compile Rust to WASM. If you don’t know…
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Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+
Hi! I've taken this blog offline, but you can still read this post in the archive.org version .
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Websockets 101
Quick introduction into the final specification of websockets (:rfc:6455).
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Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
A blog post by Ryan Geyer
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Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)
the real reason zsh beats bash • how I got twice as fast in python • autocompleting all the things • maximizing user-interface bandwidth
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Text-based web browsers
How do they fare with (not so) recent additions to HTML?
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Post-REST
More or less all the big APIs are RESTful these days. Yeah, you can quibble about what “REST” means (and I will, a bit) but the assertion is broadly true. Is it going to stay that way forever? Seems unlikely. So, what’s next?
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PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support
As of last nightly (20181115100051), Firefox now supports Wayland on Linux, thanks to the work from Martin Stransky and Jan Horak, mostly.
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Complexities of e-mail validation logic
Nope, you don't know how to validate an email address. Even if you think you'd get the domain part right, fuggeddabout the local part. Seriously.
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Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
While recently traveling to the U.S., I was completely locked out of my TD Personal Banking account. TD relies heavily on SMS-based two-factor authenticat...
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The new wave of React state management
Understand the core problems state management libraries need to solve. And how the proliferation of modern libraries address them in new ways.
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Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
This was posted in the TIL section, the low-effort section of my website where I post things that I find useful, but that don't get the full quality checks content elsewhere on this site does.
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Google Calendar Unexpectedly Leaks Private Information
My wife likes to set reminders for herself in Google Calendar. Recently, she added a note to her personal Google Calendar reading "Email alice@example.com to discuss pay rise" and set the date for a few months from now. She'd had a discussion with her boss, Alice, and they'd agreed to talk about salary later in the…
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Breaking the web with hash-bangs
Update 10 Feb 2011 : Tim Bray has written a much shorter, clearer and less technical explanation of the broken use of hash-bangs URLs . I thoroughly recommend reading and referencing it.
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ProseMirror 1.0
Two years ago, I started the ProseMirror project because I wanted to take a stab at a better approach to WYSIWYG-style editing. Today, I'm releasing version 1.0 of the library . The architecture and scope of the project have changed quite a bit during its lifetime, but I feel that the original goal has been met.
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Life Is About to Get Harder for Websites Without HTTPS
In case you haven't noticed, we're on a rapid march towards a "secure by default" web when it comes to protecting traffic. For example, back in Feb this year, 20% of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites were forcing the secure scheme: These figures are from Scott Helme'
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Get in zoomer, we're saving React
Looking back, and forward
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