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Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location
The vulnerability in this post is real. The story and characters are obviously not.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures (2015)
Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness
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Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators
Why you should be opting for local tooling when working with sensitive data, even Non-Production ones.
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Less.js will obsolete CSS
Hello there. I'm going to put together a better site when I get some time, but for now here are some links: my translation of Leonid Andreyev's Short Stories , which you can read online (also available in ebook and paperback editions). More of my translations here . Browse my articles in the archive .
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Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them
AVFoundation, the low-level audio/video framework in iOS and macOS, does not accurately seek within VBR MP3s, making VBR impractical to use for long files such as podcasts. Jumping to a timestamp in an hour-long VBR podcast can result in an error of over a minute, without the listener even knowing because the…
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WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial
In this tutorial we’ll discuss the ideas and concepts behind rendering water and then talk through some demo code.
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XML is almost always misused
In 1996, XML was invented. No sooner than it was created, it was adopted for all manner of misconceived applications for which it was a poor choice.
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Firefox Quantum
Next week, Mozilla will release Firefox 57. Also referred to as Firefox Quantum, from the project name we've used for all the work that has been put into making this the most awesome Firefox release ever. This is underscored by the fact that I've gotten mailed release-swag for the first time during my four years ……
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The Web Is More Than Enough
Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.
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Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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A Local-First Case Study
How I built a local-first app for planning trips, and what I learned about the current state of the local-first ecosystem along the way.
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How to think about HTML responsive images
srcset, sizes, picture, source, and how they all fit.
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GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
My little corner of the internet.
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Headless React
Doing React-like things without React.
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Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax , I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the…
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Don't disable buttons
One of the most common accessibility issues I find (and fix) on client projects is dynamically disabled form buttons when a form is being submitted. Today I want to talk about why developers do it, why it’s bad, and what you can do instead. Let’s dig in! Why developers disable buttons Typically, I see the pattern used…
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Chrome Privacy
Dave Winer ends an otherwise quite reasonable piece about his concern at Facebook's
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The Case for React.js and ClojureScript
A comparison of MVC web frameworks with React.js and ClojureScript circa 2014.
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Templating in HTML
A technical write-up about using the template HTML element
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Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
Porffor can run on Lambda now!