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What I wish I knew about React
Articles on frontend development and more.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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The web’s most important decision
I got a bit caught up this month, so I had to delay a couple of things, but I’ll be […]
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HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space
Programmer chronicles.
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Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing
From personal project to industry standard Introduction added in 2025 When introduced Oklab in 2020, I never expected it to reach as far as...
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You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience
You don’t need CRDTs You don’t need CRDTs for collaborative experiences. First lets get the ‘what-about-ery’ out the way… Things you do need CRDTs for …
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Offline-Friendly Forms
Forms on the web don't usually play nice with bad connections. If you try to submit a form while offline, you'll most likely just lose your input. Here's how we might fix that.
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Build a link blog like Simon Willison
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques
Debuggers serve as invaluable tools that empower developers to halt code execution and thoroughly analyze its behavior at any given moment. By utilizing debuggers, developers can efficiently identify and resolve issues within their code, making it an indispensable part of their toolkit.
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The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh…
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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
Matyáš Racek's blog
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A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell
Haskell has a proliferation of libraries to choose from for all of your basic backend needs, from logging to database access to routing and web server definition. It's nice to have the freedom of choice, but if you're just starting out, the amount of decisions needed can be overwhelming. Maybe you're not even…
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How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter
astrocamel, Blog, Portfolio, George Skouroupathis
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Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful
Script-injected scripts block on CSS and delay script execution. Their era has passed, and we now have a much better, cleaner, and faster solution: add an async attribute to your script tags.
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WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
Steve Sanderson's Blog
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Fortran on WebAssembly
Patching LLVM Flang to output WebAssembly objects.
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Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing
I got an email today, a bit sad that the bot I made to comment on Tower Bridge's state had disappeared.
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Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1
Since the introduction of the Nvidia RTX graphics cards last summer, ray tracing is back again. In the last months, my Twitter feed flooded with a continuous stream of RTX On / RTX Off comparisons. After seeing so many nice
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Alan Kay on web browsers, document viewers, Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard (2021)
Alan Kay answered: “Actually quite the opposite, if “document” means an imitation of old static text media (and later including pictures…
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Analyzing iOS 16 Lockdown Mode: Browser Features and Performance
Another year, another Apple iOS/iPadOS/MacOS release, right? But shortly before the iOS 16 betas dropped, Apple made an interesting announcement.
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A faster BBC News front page
Web performance is something I care deeply about both as a developer whose work affects millions of people around the world, and as a user who often accesses the web on slow & unreliable connections. I have regularly and loudly complained that...
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How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out
25 recent entries The horn of the Robert Smalls A difficulty in race-switching the Dukes of Hazzard On futile explanations Richard Blair Race-switching The Dukes of Hazzard Greek plural Erbaut Improved English-language month names I fix a thirty-year-old mistake Minced oaths? On the monobosom Partly about pie More…
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Polyfills gone rogue
Many popular npm packages depend on 6-8x more packages than they need to. Most of these are unnecessary polyfills and it's one of the key reasons node_modules folders are so large. The eslint ecosystem seems to be most affected by this.
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Towards Principled Reactive UI
Update 7 May 2022: A followup to this post containing significant conceptual advance is Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust. I consider the Crochet experiment to be mostly negative, as there were a number of ergonomic and functional “paper cuts,” though several of the research goals were met, at least to some extent.
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A RESTful Micro-Framework in Go
After reading countless articles about the wonders of Go, I wanted to learn more. But, learning a new language— I mean really learning it, not just getting familiar with the general capabilities and syntax—is hard. I'm sure there are tons of books that would purport to teach me all about it, but there is no substitute…
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I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
I love Wikipedia, but too often the articles are just not that easy to read. It’s not that my English isn’t good enough. My English good. There is Simple English Wikipedia, but it doesn’t cover as many topics and it’s not as thorough.