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Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1
I can build this. — every developer at least once
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
by Przemyslaw Maciolek
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Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator
By now, the cat’s out of the bag on Ionic Creator, our upcoming drag-and-drop development tool for building beautiful hybrid apps with Ionic and AngularJS. For those that have been following our company‘s history over the last few years, you know that we have a passion for making development simpler and faster through…
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Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up
“Why can’t we just write this code once and have it just work across Web, Android and iOS?” As a mobile engineer who has spent both a significant portion of his career copying the exact same product from iOS to Android, I’ve asked myself this question many times.
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The math of CSS locks
CSS Locks are a Responsive Web Design technique that lets you transition smoothly between two property values when the screen gets smaller or bigger.
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V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4
V8 v5.4 comes with performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.
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Vanilla CSS is all you need
Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy show that modern vanilla CSS can power serious apps without Sass, PostCSS, or a build step.
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Spotify Codes – Part 2
In part 1 I dove into Spotify Codes and explained the general technical concepts of how they work. If you haven’t read that post you should check it out. I shared it on reddit where it generated a lot of interesting discussion. Ludvig Strigeus, a key early developer at Spotify and the person who invented Spotify…
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Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14
The new QGIS 3.14 version adds support for the native loading of vector tiles. The easiest way to load them is via the recently released plugin.
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Windows 11 available on October 5
Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to
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I switched to Brave
I've been using Brave for a couple months now after using Firefox for around 25 years. I think Brave will be a permanent change.
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A Rant about Front-end Development
I am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn't about you personally. It's about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. Also this is mostly just about choices, the technologies are incidental. Note: The views…
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Why AI Sucks at Front End
How can it generate 3D worlds, videos, images and entire web pages, but still suck at front-end?
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The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board
The HTML standard doesn’t provide web authors the tools required to embed small video files in a screen and bandwidth responsive way. This needs to change.
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PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life
Critical PHP Security Release 21 Oct 2026: PHP released emergency patches on 21 October 2026 for two critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) Learn why PHP EOL matters, the security & compliance risks of running unsupported PHP, and how to plan, test, and upgrade to supported versions.
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Can QML become the next standard for web UI?
Recently, I came across a few articles [1, 2, 3] comparing Qt’s modern UI framework – Qt Quick and its own declarative language QML to HTML, with QML coming out as a clear winner in sev…
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Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster Than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis
The Qt Quick Compiler has learned a few new tricks recently that can make your QML code run a lot faster.
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Safari on iOS can overlap multiple full-screen videos
I just discovered an annoying behavior of Safari on iOS: full-screen videos can overlap each other and make it hard to close them without force closing Safari.
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Moving Towards a More Secure Web
To help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not exp...
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Offline-First Landscape – 2025
Building Marco meant committing to IMAP and cross-platform support. Here is why offline-first proved far harder than we expected, and what we learned.