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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Creating your own federated microblog
In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.
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Tor Browser 4.5 is released
The Tor Browser Team is proud to announce the first stable release in the 4.5 series. This...
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Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
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Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson
AdGuard dives into the history of ad blocking, from the very first banner on the web to present days, and we even have a peek into the future of ads and ad blockers. Let's look back together to better understand what awaits us ahead.
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Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
Reborn 3 (Opera 60) was designed to improve people’s control over their privacy, security, and to give them access to Web 3, the Web of the future Hello, Today, we are launching Opera 60, codenamed Reborn 3. With this release, we believe we are setting a new standard for browsers. In our entire Reborn series, […]
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XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
“ The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.” – Phil Wadler, POPL 2003
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Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Let's experiment with controlling Bluetooth Low Energy devices from a web browser with this LED project and balenaCloud.
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Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)
Nextdoor's notification settings are hostile. This is not an isolated incident.
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Will serving real HTML content make a website faster?
In this post, we run WebPageTest Pro Experiments on several popular websites to see how serving more meaningful HTML will impact their upfront performance.
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Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
There are all sorts of clever things you can do with Facebook’s ad platform. One example I ran across recently is the ability to snipe a…
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Foolproof HTML
I've been thinking and prototyping a native HTML editor for a while⁺ . (Native as opposed to a text editor that's customized to work with HTML) This is a rough transcript of a presentation I gave on the subject in 2016. This presentation is about HTML, but these ideas could be useful for other markup languages, data…
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Do you really want a single-page application framework?
First, sell your soul to the framework maintainer…
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Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
The Mend research team uncovered a fake VS-code extension—truffelvscode—typosquatting the popular truffle for VS-code extension. Read the post for more details.
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Ghost 5.0
The next generation of powerful technology for independent publishers.
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Introducing Threads in Beta
All users can now opt-in to our Threads Beta! Threads helps declutter the main room timeline by moving conversations and topics into the right panel.
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CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly
As reported by Cameron McCormack, Firefox Nightly (version 29) now supports CSS variables. You can get a quick overview in this short screencast: You can define variables in a ...
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Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
Recently, Google introduced E2E encryption in Gmail. It went bad.
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Bootstrap 5 Released
Bootstrap 5 has officially landed! After three alphas, three betas, and several months of hard work, we're shipping the first stable release of our new major…
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Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP
QUIC replaces TCP with UDP for faster connections, eliminating head-of-line blocking and reducing latency. Learn how it works and why it matters.
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Open-Sourcing CloudFlare’s UI Framework
Late last year, the CloudFlare UI team made a huge decision: to change JavaScript frameworks from Backbone & Marionette to React & Redux.
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Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects
If you've ever clicked on a search result only to land on a version of a site you don't prefer, Kagi's URL Redirects (also known as URL Rewrites) puts you in control by automatically rewriting search...
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How I could delete any video on YouTube
About Vulnerability Research Grants and a little story how I could delete any video on YouTube.
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JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams
Discover the power of JavaScript for your diagramming needs! Our comprehensive guide features over 20 top JavaScript libraries to create dynamic UML, ER, BPMN diagrams (or even your own types of models), and more, right in your browser.