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One of the first significant things I ever coded in QBasic was a falling snow simulation- I think they're very soothing to watch, fun to customize, and there's lots of possibilities for extra little delight. Here's one I built on idle afternoons over the holidays this year at my parents. Enjoy!
An overview of all the DNS record types. Each DNS record type is briefly explained, and extensive explanations are available in linked articles.
We gave the world’s most private browsing experience a UX overhaul.
Attached: 1 image Well fuck #reddit - they have just undeleted posts I made years ago that I'd removed when I did a purge a couple of years back. So Reddit didn't actually delete the data - also these videos are no longer on YT so the thumb is cached They are so fucked #gdpr…
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
Read Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS on the Polytomic blog.
The Scripting API is a new Manifest V3 API focused on, well, scripting. Let's dig into the motivations for this change and how it's different.
In a world full of JavaScript frameworks, SPAs, CSS animations, powerful devices and fast internet, HTML-only websites are controversial and divisive. But why?
It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy. We’ve written here previously with our thoughts about Dark Mode, now it’s time to talk about iOS apps coming to the Mac. Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few details during last year’s Keynote. We knew that some […]
This article details how htmx with Rust and Shuttle can speed up your workflow and let you focus on the code with the assistance of Axum and Askama.
Ah, January. A time of optimism, a time for starting afresh. For making new goals and resolutions. And in the web development world, for looking at the landscape and deciding what we need to learn just to keep up. Because let’s face it - web development is always changing, and if we aren’t constantly learning we’re…
User Generated Content is great, innit? As a company, I want users to submit photos, so I don't have to do any content curation. Moderation? Nah mate, stick some AI on there to filter out anything offensive and we're golden. *sigh* James Whatley (inactive)@WhatleydudeSurprised Loch Ness isn't trending tbqh.❤️ 7💬 0🔁…
Developers, designers, and strategists, here’s something you can do for the health of the web:
Building Surfgrad, a high-performant, WebGPU-powered autograd library
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tl;dr: I'm now using Fathom for my personal website analytics, and it's easy to self-host and maintain, better for privacy, and can lead to better site performance. Since the mid-2000s, right after it became available, I started using Google Analytics for almost every website I built (whether it be mine or someone…
User disengagement is the product and business development philosophy we follow at Zerodha, the anti-thesis of user "engagement".
You might know about Microsoft's Flight Simulator release in August last year and like me, if you're interested in flight simulators or photorealistic…
Nginx is a powerful high performance web server with a lot of features that can help high load projects to overcome their problems. Here you can see a particular feature of Nginx that allows you to load balance the traffic across multiple external and internal(on same hardware) servers. Load
