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OkCupid's “Removed” Visitor API
A blog about programming, the tech industry, and tech education.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
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A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
How Reddit accidentally leaked its spamurai system.
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Resilient Sync for Local First
Resilient sync for local-first apps by using existing technologies such as file systems
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Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines
A site for cataloging the many technical musing of Andy Desmarais
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Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
Google trends, Apple, Google Chrome and plenty of developers put a cross on Flash. In my opinion without Flash the current web tech stack might look different. Credentials I wrote my first line of code in ActionScript 2.0 it was 13 years ago and it was streamlined with the style of web. Big boom of
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Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
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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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GitHub dropped Pygments
My first-ever open source contribution, a couple years ago, was to a project called Pygments. My motivation? GitHub was displaying Racket source code poorly. Pygments didn't have a Racket lexer. GitHub was using a Scheme lexer for Racket code. The Scheme ...
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80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
Today, PHP is used by more than 80% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Popular websites such as Slack, Etsy, Cloudflare,
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Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
Link to: https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers
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How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers
A blog for third-party developers on the Clover POS platform.
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Hyphenation in CSS
Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens. Updated January 2023.
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Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
A friend of mine noted recently that I seemed a little antagonistic about Facebook recently — mostly on my Facebook account, which is some irony for you — and wanted to know what I had …
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Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser
If progress follows it's usual strategy, then whatever is difficult and valuable to do today will become easy and normal tomorrow. I imagine we'll discover new abstractions, which will make writing Google Docs as easy as the average web app is today.
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#1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers
Navigation: #1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers - You MUST Deny It ASAP. #2 top secret(will be published on April 1) #3 Another Ra...
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Wavelength
Private group chat with friends and AI, with good native apps.
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My Reaction to React
EDIT: Some people were rightly complaining about the code snippets being screen captures rather than <code> blocks. I’ve updated accordingly. Also, many have rightfully commented that t…
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Photoshop for Text
In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.