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Mozilla launched popcorn.js
Today is a big day for Mozilla and web video. Popcorn, Mozilla’s new HTML5 media toolkit, just launched version 1.0. Coinciding with the launch is
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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An NFT without a blockchain
This is a small proof-of-concept. It relies on PGP - but you could use Keybase, GPG, or any other hard-to-use encryption program. Background Suppose you want to support an artist and give them money. That's easy. Most artists take PayPal, bank transfer, or cash. But how can you prove that you've paid an artist for a…
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Chrome is warning users about insecure pages
First transition in Google's HTTPS-everywhere plans is done
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The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
tl;dr A thumbs-up emoji appears each time you type a colon : in Google Docs, in french. I have just noticed that it is now possible to easily insert emojis in Google Docs! Good news? Not for french writers! This feature already exists in Outlook on the Web: when you
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Switching From React To Vue.js
Thinking about a switch from React to Vue? They're similar beasts but with a few key differences. In this article I'll explain the differences so you're ready to jump in to VueJS and be productive.
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful
A few notes on SwiftUI and why UI frameworks should not try to be “smart”
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Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
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HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present
Remember, in `may 1996`, the very first HTTP protocol version (HTTP/1.0) was born.
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OkCupid's “Removed” Visitor API
A blog about programming, the tech industry, and tech education.
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A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
How Reddit accidentally leaked its spamurai system.
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Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies
Most of the Firefox User Interface (UI), including the address bar and the tab strip, are implemented using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript plus some additional custom components like XUL. One of the advantages of using web technologies for the front end is that it allows rendering the frontend…
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How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries
Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.
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Resilient Sync for Local First
Resilient sync for local-first apps by using existing technologies such as file systems
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WebVR Experiments
We’ve created a showcase of the amazing VR experiences developers are building on the web. To play with them, all you need is a browser.
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Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines
A site for cataloging the many technical musing of Andy Desmarais
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New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web
If you run any large public-facing website or web application on the modern web, caching your static content in a CDN or other caching service is super...
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How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google Analytics
Find out how referral spam in Google Analytics can be produced, why anybody would take time to do that and personality behind the latest spam wave.
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ING open-sources Lion, a library of accessible and flexible Web Components
TL;DR: Web development can be hard, whether you’re making your own components, implementing Design Systems, support many different…
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Parse 1.0 is released
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Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping
In this guide, we show how you can build your own mobile proxy pool step by step. Mobile proxies offer improved reliability for web automation. This guide shows how to build your own mobile proxy infrastructure.
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Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
Google trends, Apple, Google Chrome and plenty of developers put a cross on Flash. In my opinion without Flash the current web tech stack might look different. Credentials I wrote my first line of code in ActionScript 2.0 it was 13 years ago and it was streamlined with the style of web. Big boom of
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Passkey Implementation: Misconceptions, pitfalls and unknown unknowns
Read about the challenges, pitfalls and misconceptions we faced while developing our passkey-first authentication solution and passkey intelligence.