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Godot Editor running in a web browser
Bringing the Godot Editor to the web: lowering the barrier for newcomers while enhancing the HTML5 export.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
For FastCGI's 30th birthday, let's look at how it avoids the security problems inherent in HTTP reverse proxying
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Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS
A vulnerability in Safari allowed hackers to access the iPhone and Macbook cameras. (CVE-2020-3852, CVE-2020-3864, CVE-2020-3865, CVE-2020-3885, CVE-2020-3887 & CVE-2020-9784)
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How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
Get the details on how the built-in ad-blocker in Google Chrome works. The ad-blocker only kicks in on websites in violation of the Better Ad Standards policies.
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The Future Is Niri
The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two...
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Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
You might have used Google’s new AMP project without even knowing. It’s a technology that makes mobile page results load very quickly on Google, it
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Firefox 76
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
Some highlights and lowlights.
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With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release! What Are Hooks? Hooks let you use state and other React features without writing a class. You can also build your own Hooks to share reusable stateful logic between…
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Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?
“Internationalization” is, roughly speaking, geek-speak for the process of supporting multiple languages on a website. For a company doing business in multiple countries, it needs to be done - otherwise you’ll risk losing the attention of people who don’t speak your development team’s native language. There are…
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Firefox introduces PDF viewer
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux introduces a built-in browser PDF viewer that allows you to read PDFs directly within the browser, making reading PDFs e
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The 451 status code is now supported
Get started with one of our guides, or jump straight into the API documentation.
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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!
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Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
Rubén Osorio’s blog
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Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys
A new set of the Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the ...
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Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing
It seems important to Apple that the Mac not be perceived as an afterthought compared to the iPad, and, perhaps more importantly, that Apple not be perceived as itself considering or treating the Mac as an afterthought.
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You might not need WebSockets
Websockets are powerful tools that have become a fan-favorite for building realtime applications, but you might be using them for all the wrong reasons. Let's explore the pitfalls of websockets and how we can use plain old HTTP to get the same job done.
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Deno 2.8
`import defer`, six new subcommands (`deno transpile`, `deno pack`, `deno bump-version`, `deno ci`, `deno why`, `deno audit fix`), network debugging in Chrome DevTools, framework-aware `deno compile`, and 3.66x faster cold npm installs.
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Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
Three months ago, I quit my job at Google to start my own company. This past week, I decided that I wanted to get a feel for how much it…
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Style your RSS feed
How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.
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I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action
Yesterday or so a new initiative I Love MDN was unveiled. People can show their appreciation for the MDN staff and volunteers by leaving a comment.
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JavaScript in 2015
In the last few days of 2014, I resurrected my long-neglected GIF-beatmatching project DJGif to throw a New Year’s party on my rooftop:
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Cache your CORS
CORS is a necessity for many APIs, but basic configurations can create a huge number of extra requests, slowing down every browser API client, and sending...
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Gmail Launches Add-ons
New Gmail Add-ons to help you speed up your workflows at work.
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Firefox 118
Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Many thanks to the various partners of the EU R&D Bergamot project.
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The next generation of Instapaper
When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app. It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving. I did almost everything myself, which…