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Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
Today we’re announcing the integration of MDN’s compat data into the caniuse website. Together, we’re bringing even more web compatibility information into the hands of web developers.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Discover why personal websites are the backbone of the independent web. Learn how to build, connect, and maintain your own space on the internet.
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The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Malvertising on Google Ads
Criminals are disguising malware as popular software, so users need to think twice before clicking the download button.
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A simple way to build collaborative web apps
Junyu Zhan's homepage
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Finally someone makes sense of JavaScript's this keyword
(In Portugese) The JavaScript this keyword is ubiquitous yet misconceptions abound. What you need to know Every execution context has an associated ThisBinding whose lifespan is equal to that of th…
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A technical guide to SEO
Complete technical SEO checklist covering HTTPS, meta tags, sitemaps, robots.txt, page speed, duplicate content, and Google Webmaster Tools setup.
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Why WebAssembly Is Faster Than Asm.js
Performance is tricky to measure, and has many aspects. Also, in a new technology there are always going to be not-yet-optimized cases. So not every single benchmark will be fast ...
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Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine
DNS over HTTPS (DOH) is a feature where a client shortcuts the standard native resolver and instead asks a dedicated DOH server to resolve names. Compared to regular unprotected DNS lookups done over UDP or TCP, DOH increases privacy, security and sometimes even performance. It also makes it easy to use a name server…
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There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers
Google Chrome is not the default browser on Android 4.3+. There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers, and they are all subtly, though not wildly, different.
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Get Static
If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to get static.
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The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)
Well, here we are on October 26th, 2010. Can it really be a year ago that Archive Team had dozens of people assaulting Yahoo’s servers desperately trying to save disappearing history? Well, l…
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Update on Metro
Earlier this week, I asked our engineering leads and release managers to take the Windows Metro version of Firefox off the trains. The team is solid and did good work, ...
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Tor Browser 9.0
We want everyone in the world to be able to enjoy the privacy and freedom online Tor provides, and that's why over the past couple years, we've been working hard to boost our UX and localization efforts, with the biggest gains first visible in Tor Browser 8.0. In Tor Browser 9.0, we continue to build upon those…
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The Revel Web Framework for Go
Edit, save, and refresh. Revel compiles your code and templates for you, so you don't miss a beat. Code doesn't compile? It gives you a helpful description . Run-time code panic? Revel has you covered .
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Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”
I'm a software and network engineer living on the west coast. I currently work at Qumulo writing a petabyte-scale CDN with linearizable reads and writes at every edge. Previously, I worked at Arista Networks doing network automation, large scale digital-twin network validation, and routing for SMPTE2110 networks.
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What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile
WABT gains a new decompilation tool that can make it easier to read the contents of Wasm modules.
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Inspecting Yosemite's Icons
Dive deep into the visual updates of Yosemite's icons with this comprehensive analysis. From shapes and grids to lighting effects, learn how Apple's new design language impacts icon creation and discover tips for making your icons stand out in the Yosemite environment.
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Screenshots Forever and Ever Until You Can’t Stand it
The Screen Shotgun, as mentioned before, is continuing its never-ending quest to play tens of thousands of games and programs, take screenshots, and upload them into the Internet Archive. Like any …
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The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web
Last week my mother died. After we put her urn into the ground next to my father’s we went back to their flat to talk about next steps and dividing up their belongings amongst us three children. One thing I immediately called dibs on were my father’s two books.
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Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
Does the WordPress Block Editor deliver on its promise of heralding an exciting future for WordPress development?
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Mozilla's latest quagmire
Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.
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I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
I needed to choose a framework for a mobile-first app at work. I started comparing Next.js, SolidStart, and SvelteKit, then expanded to 10 frameworks. The measurements revealed dramatic differences in bundle sizes, performance, and the real cost of framework choices.
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RSS as a Facebook alternative
Making the case for RSS feeds and feed readers as the best alternative to big tech news consumption services like Facebook newsfeeds.
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