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It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
A lot of people who were on the internet in the early 2000’s remember something called RSS. It stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it allowed conten
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Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
nikitonsky: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?
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A website to destroy all websites
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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Never buy a .online domain
I’ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames.
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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their "Verify you're human" device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser . Preventing access to quite few websites ( previously , but it even went worse lately). Turns out it's because Cloudflare wants to have a fingerprint of your device…
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The Return of the 90s Web
Are we ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early web again? There are trends that suggest we might just have come full circle - and I like it.
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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
Want to add an RSS feed of a site to News app? Can’t find a site you like in the Apple approved list on News app? No problem, here’s how you can add them yourself from Safari in iOS and subscribe directly[…]
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Google has another secret browser
another hidden browser which is accessible by a link
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So you think you know box shadows?
So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
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Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
Google Analytics is only very superficially free. Why I removed it, what it really costs your users, and the privacy-friendly alternatives I use instead.
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What UI density means and how to design for it
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
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Pixels don’t care
There's plenty of discrimination and intolerance in our world, but never forget that pixels don't care.
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See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
I work with U.S. law firms as a non-testifying technical consulting expert on matters involving the Apple platform and iOS apps. Learn more about my litigation consulting.
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How to build a personal webpage from scratch
An opinionated introduction to designing and deploying a modern static webpage.
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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.
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The Frontend Treadmill
A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings. If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. And all of the time you spend…
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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
If you were worried about tracking cookies, you really don’t want to know about browser fingerprinting.
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Fingerprints are the new cookies
Now open it on your phone or some other device and your nickname will be different and just as consistent.
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Safari is the new IE
Update: This post represents my views before I joined the Microsoft Edge team, and before I got involved with browsers or web standards in general. I leave it…
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What Happens Next Will Amaze You
This is the text version of a talk I gave on September 14, 2015, at the FREMTIDENS INTERNET conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating
Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?
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Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Onward! ’19 Watch out! If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesti…
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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
You can use emoji (and other graphical unicode characters) in URLs. And wow is it great. But no one seems to do it. Why? Perhaps emoji are too exotic for normie web platforms to handle? Or maybe they are avoided for fear of angering the SEO gods?
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I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
As per the AMP AC charter, I have resigned with immediate effect. As I was a non-corporate representative, I will not be nominating a replacement. I have loved working with the AC. They are a team of brilliant individuals who are all committed to trying to make AMP better, and I'm sorry to leave them. I've been a…
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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.