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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 263 posts.

2013
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Starters Guide to iOS Design

As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and iPad app design. In this guide I'll describe the deliverables you'll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of…

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No to "No UI"

A critique of 'invisible design' and the NoUI movement: invisibility propagates the myth of immateriality, ignores interface culture and takes agency away from users and designers.

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Introducing "Functional JavaScript"

A few years ago I got the idea that it would be fun to implement a variant of Scheme targeting the JVM. During my search for different ways to implement numerics I looked deeply at the implementation of two languages: JScheme and a little-known language Clojure . During my explorations with these two languages and the…

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ClojureScript Core.async Todos

Edit: The following post is still a great way to learn about how core.async works. However, it is not a good example of how to write a web application unless you are just exploring and having fun. There are many good times to be had playing with core.async and I highly recommend giving the examples in this post a try.

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The RSS Apocalypse

Aldo Coresi explains: “The truth is this: Google destroyed the RSS feed reader ecosystem with a subsidized product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation. It then neglected Google Reader itself for years, after it had effectively become the only player. Today it does further damage by buggering up the…

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Where did all the HTTP referrers go?

Good (and bad news): the general consensus in the web developer community is that any and every website should be HTTPS by default. Why? HTTP by itself isn't encrypted, leaving it open to eavesdropping, message tampering, and man-in-the-middle attacks. HTTPS, if you use it consistently , prevents these issues.