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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 257 posts.

2024
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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally agree with this, as Juno is just a web…

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The ü/ü Conundrum

I implemented search and filtering for entities on our product at epilot. The users were heavily using the feature, however, a unique issue surfaced: difficulties in filtering file names containing diacritical marks like umlauts (Äpfel, über, schön, etc.).

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Threads Enables Fediverse Replies

Last night Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, quitely announced the next step in the integration of Threads into the Fediverse. In addition to being able to follow Threads accounts from Fediverse/Mastodon accounts, we can now reply to and like Threads posts. Threads are taking a quiet, incremental approach to…

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UI = f(statesⁿ)

“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer…

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A love letter to Apache Echarts

In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them. I know this because I even wrote one .

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The Design of Everyday APIs (2022)

What makes a good API for a library? Or more importantly, what makes it bad? This talk discusses the principles of what goes into user-centered design, and how best to apply those principles when writing a Python library for fellow developers.