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Web Based Qt Design Viewer
View and share Qt Design Studio projects in a web browser.
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Web & Frontend
The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,468 posts.
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Faster web fonts
Fine-tune your font files and optimise your loading strategy for maximum speed + minimum FOUT
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Announcing the Pollen API
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
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Open Sans, how do we love thee?
If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ve noticed that we recently adopted Open Sans as our default typeface across WordPress.com. Type wonks know that Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface. I…
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The browser's biggest TLS mistake
Much like a previous talk of mine at Chaos Computer Congress this blog post is a direct write-up of a talk, if you prefer to consume this kind of content in video form you can watch the video here:
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Google Chrome 51 disables HTTP/2 on most Linux distros due to old OpenSSL
Chrome drops NPN for ALPN on May 31st, requiring OpenSSL 1.0.2+. CentOS, Debian, and most Ubuntu versions can't support it, breaking HTTP/2 for millions.
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CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)
The truly No JavaScript web component.
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Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium
O hai pixel lovers! Check out this gorgeous CSS3 demo: Planetarium, by the LittleWorkshop team (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck). Screencast: Youtube link. Gorgeous Animations The principal feature show-cased in ...
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Google will start warning Chinese users about problematic search terms
Over the past couple years, we’ve had a lot of feedback that Google Search from mainland China can be inconsistent and unreliable. It depend...
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Google Slides Is Hilarious
Perhaps like you, I naively started out thinking that Google Slides was just a poorly maintained product suffering from some questionable…
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Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates
Mozilla has discovered that a Certificate Authority (CA) called WoSign has had a number of technical and management failures. Most seriously, we discovered they were backdating SSL certificates in order ...
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Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz
Building “Test Your Culture” by taking the world’s largest encyclopedia… and combining it with data science
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The I-JSON Message Format
The Olde ASCII is at rfc7493.txt . I’ll put a nicely-formatted HTML version here as soon as I pull a few pieces together. This is really, really simple stuff and should be about as controversy-free as an RFC can be.
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Vite 4.0
Vite 4 Release Announcement
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WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (1990)
HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already…
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What Happened to NewsBlur: A Hacker News Effect Post-Mortem
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
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37signals Basecamp Mobile HTML5 app for WebKit browsers
Today we launch Basecamp Classic Mobile for phones and devices with WebKit browsers. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo, Palm Pre 2, BlackBerry Torch, or any other device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, …
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Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers
Delve into best practices for HTTP, Ruby on Rails, and databases, and discover when to adhere to the rules or when breaking them could set your code apart.
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Modeling Redux with TLA+
Update 01/07/19 Greetings from 2019! The good news is that Chicago isn’t yet a radioactive crater. The bad news is almost everything I said about refinement in this article is wrong. I’m working on writing a more in-depth, rigorous treatment of refinement as its own article. But this one is currently explaining…
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How We Improved Our Conversion Rate by 72%
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Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites
blog-cells can turn any web page into an interactive code notebook, similar to Jupyter notebooks, but powered by JavaScript and running entirely in the browser.
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SendGrid appends a tracking pixel even when disabled
Commenting, venting, or ranting. Usually about entrepreneurship, tech, or self-reflection.
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New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25
Firefox 25 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report about new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Here's a summary of some of ...