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What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week)
Check out whats new and known issues for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
Private profiles (now generally available) enables users to turn their GitHub profile "private", which gives users control over features that share user data across the GitHub platform. When a profile…
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Google 2000 vs. Google 2011
I sometimes hear people say “Remember when Google launched and the results were so good? Google didn’t have any spam back then. Man, I wish we could go back to those days.” I know…
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WordPress is now 13 years old
The first release of WordPress is now available.
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Streams: Mail 3.0 concept
Introducing concept of Streams, aiming to fix most of email-as-a-medium flaws
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Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything
Polymath is a markup language for aesthetically presenting a wide variety of information including text, mathematics, programming, photos, videos, and more.
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Union Types in Flow and Reason
Union types are powerful yet often overlooked. At work, I've been using Flow which thankfully supports union types. But as I've refactored more of our code to use union types, I've noticed that our bundle size has been steadily increasing!
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You can use newline characters in URLs
We locate web content using special addresses called URLs. We are all familiar with addresses like https://google.com. Sometimes, URLs can get long and they can become difficult to read. Thus, we might be tempted to format them like so in HTML using newline and tab characters, like so: <a…
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Browser History (2013)
Wow! This takes me back! Please check the date this post was authored, as it may no longer be relevant in a modern context.
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Various ways to include comments on a static site (2018)
Overview of different techniques to implement comments using a static site generator.
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The State of HTML5 Audio
When I started to work on my JavaScript Game Engine back in October 2009, the biggest problems I encountered were with the new HTML5 Audio Element. The Canvas Element already worked nicely in all browsers that supported it at the time, albeit some were a little slow.
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Comet is dead, long live websockets
I've just had a chance to play with the implementation of websockets in Googles Chrome browser. This post started me off. After a small am...
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Mono and WebAssembly – Updates on Static Compilation
As you may know we have been working on bringing Mono to the WebAssembly platform . As part of the effort we have been pursuing two strategies; one that uses the new Mono IL interpreter to run managed code at runtime, and one that uses full static (AOT) compilation to create one .wasm file that can be executed…
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Build a CMS, no forms allowed
You may have noticed that quite a lot is happening in the Midgard land. Nowadays Midgard2 itself is a generic content repository that can be used for both desktop and web applications. Midgard MVC is a generic web framework for PHP5 that can be used with Midgard2 or without it. And then there is Midgard Create, the…
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Goodbye to Painful Image Loads on Small Devices
We've been working in the responsive realm for a while now and one of the most painful parts of the process is dealing with images. Large images can cause extremely long load times on small devices that might not have a huge data bandwidth. There have been many "best practices for now" movements to deal with this.
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Django 4.0 alpha 1 released
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Sept. 21, 2021
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HTTP/2 for TCP/IP Geeks
I attended a TCP/IP Geeks Stockholm meetup yesterday and did a talk about HTTP/2. Below is the slide set, but as usual it might not be entirely self explanatory... HTTP/2 - for TCP/IP Geeks Stockholm from Daniel Stenberg
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How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application
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Supabase Storage v2: Image Resizing and Smart CDN
We're introducing new features for Supabase Storage: Image resizing and a Smart CDN.
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New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve
Every year the WordPress team proudly unveils a new default theme, increasing by one the collection now known affectionately as the Twenty Somethings. Serving as the flagship theme for a year, it h…