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All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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My essential django package list
In this article I’d like to present a list of django packages (add-ons) that I use in most of my projects. I am using django for more than 5 years as my day to day work tool to develop applications for the public sector organization I work for. So please keep in mind that these packages are targeted to the…
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Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo
Based on the latest tests I've published, Django LiveView appears to be the fastest dynamic frontend (I'm sure more variables can be measured). OK…
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Responsive Design Patterns
Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes. As more designers embrace thi...
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MVC Isn’t MVC
In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphica…
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25 Years of CSS
It was the morning of Tuesday, May 7th, 1996 and I was sitting in the Ambroisie conference room of the CNIT in Paris, France having my mind repeatedly blown.
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Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)
Edit: Contrary to what I said here, José Valim is not stepping down from Rails core, he is merely on sabbatical. My bad. Lately I've been ...
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How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
This article describes my nginx configuration and strategy on how to prevent web crawlers from putting down my instance while still serving most people with minimal amount of friction.
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Why I moved from Angular to React
The article should help people to understand the benefits of React and Angular for making an educated decision to choose between Angular or React. It tells my story why I moved from Angular to React after using both libraries for years. It's not just another click-bait article, but an article with lots of experiences…
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A Visual Guide to React Rendering
Contrary to popular belief, by default, react component doesn't care whether its props changed or not. It will always re-render when its parent renders.
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Faking Twitter unfurling to phish you
Do you trust links? Well, you shouldn’t. Do you trust this link: Twitter says this link should take you to Uniswap, nobody would be none-the-wiser because we…
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Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide
You can make your own website. This guide can help anyone make a website with HTML and CSS. You can make a personal site, link tree, hobby site, digital garden, fansite, or any other website you want. It's fun, and easy enough for a 12-year-old.
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How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
You’re in the iPhone mail app, and you’re looking at your inbox, when a new email arrives. What happens?
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Firefox 32 Supports Public Key Pinning
Public Key Pinning helps ensure that people are connecting to the sites they intend . Pinning allows site operators to specify which certif...
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Developers: stop re-AOLizing the web!
I recently succumbed to the hype and downloaded Mailbox, a mobile email client that tries to help you manage your overflowing email inbox and achieve the mythical “inbox zero”. Mailbox does this by encouraging you to immediately archive, trash or schedule the email for a re-read or response using a swipe interface…
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Animated SVG vs. GIF
— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
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Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product
By leveraging the web in creation of rapid prototypes for testing business model assumptions, and using customer feedback to develop them, companies will be able to advance in its’ search for…
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Let’s build a browser engine (2014)
I’m building a toy HTML rendering engine, and I think you should too. This is the first in a series of articles:
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Two "WontFix" vulnerabilities in Facebook Connect
TL;DR Every website with "Connect Facebook account and log in with it" is vulnerable to account hijacking. Every website relying on signed_r...
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Teaching a Semester of D3.js
I spent last semester frantically putting together a course on D3.js for journalism students at the University of Miami at the same time as ...
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A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)
Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.
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Passkeys and Modern Authentication
Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.
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Web development in C: Crazy?
Preliminary verdict: crazy like a fox (ish)
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13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics
There’s widespread use of adblockers on the web but users are increasingly blocking cookies and other tracking scripts too. Browsers such as Safari, Firefox and Brave are privacy-focused.