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Web Intents - the future of web apps
Web Intents is a new project designed to solve the problem of web application integration. Inspired by Android's intent system, it allows developers to build features without needing to integrate with every possible 3rd party service. Web Intents lets users choose their preferred service for actions like image editing…
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Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy ...
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Hexells – Self-Organising System of Cells Drawing Textures [WebGL]
is a Self-Organising System of cells, that was trained to build textures using neighbour communication only. This work exposes the relation between the life of an individual cell, and the cell collective as a whole.
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Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)
Personal blog and portfolio site
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Your code displays Japanese wrong
A static site to link people to when their code is displaying Japanese wrong.
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Missing the Point of WebAssembly
wingolog: article: missing the point of webassembly
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Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
How can mass-copying pages from web publishers without a license not be mass-copyright infringement? The weird copyright law exemption that enables AMP Caches.
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What a graph of 8,000 fake Twitter accounts looks like
Recently I've been plagued with Tweets saying that I'm "trending in London." As flattering as that is, it's not true. There appears to be a network of Twitter bots which are randomly repeating other people's tweets, ripping off avatars and bios, and generally causing a nuisance. Looking at the users' Twitter name, I…
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Most expensive javascript ever
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious
SSL requirements are quickly becoming obnoxious.
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Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance
The five most popular JS frameworks – Angular, React, Vue, Svelte and Blazor – use different rendering strategies, and it shows.
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Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
Let's design the successor to email on top of HTTP, fixing the design flaws SMTP has been dragging along for 40 years. Piece by piece. The goal is…
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Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
My blog just scored a perfect 100 on every Lighthouse category. I love blogging. I wanted to build a blog that’s light, fast, free of clutter, able to run multiple blogs, and fully accessible on top of that. And finally, at long last, I’ve more or less pulled it off. It was quite a tedious proces...
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Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs
When building web services, a common wisdom is to try to reduce the number of HTTP requests to improve performance.
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Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub
As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you." But here's the thing with the LCP DRM scheme; they do give you the key! As I've written about previously, LCP mostly relies on the user entering their password (the…
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Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser
Firefox is getting snappier! Hooray
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A cartoon guide to Flux
Flux is both one of the most popular and one of the least understood topics in current web development. This guide is an attempt to explain…
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Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
At least, not with today's software.
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Should we design for iffy internet?
Around 97% of US households have internet access, but bandwidth and latency are likely worse than you expect.
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WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
An alternative way to do web based apps on macOS and iOS without Electron