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What does Overture Map mean for the future of OpenStreetMap?
Personal blog of Andriy Holovin. A little about everything.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,468 posts.
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Building a WebAuthn Click Farm
How I built a click farm to “bypass” Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA killer with some cheap USB security keys, an Arduino, and a bit of python.
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Open Sourcing Our SDKs
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Hacker News for Hackers
Hacker News is one of the best sources for news in the intersection of technology and business. Hacker News gets nearly 1000 submissions on a busy weekday, and quite a bit less on the weekends:
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Live Streaming in Rails 4.0
TL;DR Rails 4.0 will allow you to stream arbitrary data at arbitrary intervals with Live Streaming. HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE! Besides enabling multi-threading by default, one of the things I really wanted for Rails 4.0 is the ability to stream data to the client. I want the ability to treat the response object as an I/O…
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CSS System Colors (2021)
In another episode of “I’ve been a web designer for how long and am only now learning about this?” let’s talk about CSS system colors. Background On my blog, I…
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How to deal with dirty side effects in your pure functional JavaScript
If you start learning about functional programming, it won’t be long before you come across the idea of pure functions. And as you go on, you will discover functional programmers appear to be obsessed with them. “Pure functions let you reason about your code,” they say. “Pure functions are less likely to start a…
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CSS as the back end – Cascading Server Sheets
Here we go again! Another one of these, and promise, you will be questioning my sanity after this...
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Twitter has blocked 3rd party apps
At 7:30 PM PST on January 12th, access to Twitter from Tweetbot and many other 3rd party apps have stopped working. We've reached out to Twitter for more details, but as of yet have not heard anything back.
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Neat trick for getting private info for Facebook, GMail, Twitter and Digg users
Hidden img and script tags with onload and onerror let any site tell if you're logged into GMail, Facebook, Twitter or Digg. Google called it expected.
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Anim State Graph: Node-Based Animation Editor for WebGL
We’re excited to be able to release a new system for creating fantastic and high fidelity animations in PlayCanvas!
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Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released
Grow your business with Opera. Tap into our trusted brand and global audience of hundreds of millions to connect with new users and expand your reach.
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It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult
Reflecting on investing in design systems
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How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network
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Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents
Linkedin and Reddit both check your clipboard and copy and paste your clipboard contents with every keystroke - even when you’re in another app. Another
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CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document…
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CDN vs S3
As I said in my last post: S3 is NOT a CDN. It is an amazing Simple Storage Service, not a Simple Delivery Service. Via AWS: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make...
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Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
We received a mail from GitHub a few weeks ago.
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State of HTML 2023 now open
While the survey will be open for 3 weeks, responses entered within the first 9 days (until October 1st) will have a much higher impact on the Web, as preliminary data will be used to inform Interop 2024 proposals.