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Web & Frontend

The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 224 posts.

2015
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I hope WebDAV dies

WebDAV is a file access and transfer protocol created in the 90s. It has support for file locks, arbitrary key-value properties attached to folders, file mimetypes, and many other features that extend this standard. It also has powerful access control features.

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Vue.js: 2015 in Review

The year of 2015 has been a pretty crazy ride for Vue.js. The project has grown way beyond my expectations, so I’d like to take a look back and put things in perspective. StatsGeneral NPM downloads:

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Pattern: Back ends for front ends

With the advent and success of the web, the de facto way of delivering user interfaces has shifted from thick-client applications to interfaces delivered via the web, a trend that has also enabled the growth of SAAS-based solutions in general. The benefits of delivering a user interface over the web were huge …

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Freedom On The Centralized Web

I. A lot of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists envision a future of small corporate states competing for migrants and capital by trying to have the best policies. But the Internet is about as clo…

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ImperialViolet

Thomas Ptacek laid out a number of arguments against DNSSEC recently (and in a follow up ). We don't fully agree on everything, but it did prompt me to write why, even if you assume DNSSEC, DANE (the standard for speaking about the intersection of TLS and DNSSEC) is not a foregone conclusion in web browsers.