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Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,465 posts.
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EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.
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Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
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Toasts are bad UX
The core problem is that toasts always show up far away from the user's attention.
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Save Firefox
Once upon a time, there were two major browsers that virtually everyone used: Netscape and Internet Explorer, locked in a death-battle for the future of the Web. They went to enormous lengths to tempt Web publishers to optimize their sites to work best inside their windows, and hoped that users...
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Google changes its search box
We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the best of a search engine with the best of AI.
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Use console.log() like a pro (2020)
What console.log() does, where to find console logs in the browser and Node.js, with examples, plus console methods like table(), group() and time().
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A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
A quick explanation on how the Firefox-only map is built using the `element()` CSS function.
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React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Exploring how React's dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.
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Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days
Apple will delete your data if you don’t use an app for seven days. This effectively kills offline web apps.
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React I love you, but you're bringing me down
We've come a long, long way together. You changed. Where do we go from here?
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Short session expiration does not help security
When logged into a web application, the session does not remain valid forever. Typically, the session expires after a fixed time after login, or after the user has been idle for some time. How long should these times be?
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Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
searchmysite.net was designed to be a search engine free from SEO spam, but now almost all traffic comes from SEO spammers.
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I Lost Faith in Kagi
Issues with Kagi's AI focus, finances and leadership
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Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing
We are pleased to announce a new, major privacy enhancement to Firefox’s cookie handling that lets you fully erase your browser history for any website. Today’s new version of Firefox ...
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Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
Posted by Vinay Shet, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA protects the websites you love from spam and abuse. So, when you go online—say...
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Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Bug Bounty Hunter & Researcher
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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
I’m part of the desktop software generation. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, I grew using mostly-offline software on computers operated via mouse and keyboard, well before tablets and smartphones. Recently, I’ve been missing one particular part of that era: its consistency in design. I want to tell you about
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A story about <input>
Monica Dinculescu's blog
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SPAs Were a Mistake
For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site or app lives in a single HTML file. After the initial load, everything about the app is handled with JavaScript. This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps…
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Installing every* Firefox extension
Oh, you use Firefox? Name every extension.
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Web fonts, boy, I don't know
Monica Dinculescu's blog
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Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
You surely know this: You're looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you're probably not gonna need them for a few years or so (so there's no need to memorize them). So, what do you do? You copy-paste them. Here's an example:
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VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
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Local First, Forever
We explore how to build local-first sync on top of simple file storage
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More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
As part of the Internet Archive's aim to build a better Web, we have been working to make the Web more reliable -- and are pleased to announce that 9 million formerly broken links on Wikipedia now work because they go to archived versions in the Wayback Machine. 22 Wikipedia Language Editions with more than