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Why are browsers so slow?
I understand why rendering a complicated layout may be slow. Or why executing a complicated script may be slow
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
Looking at the site earlier today I suddenly noticed a couple of links to sites that I would never ever think of endorsing through my blog.
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Saying goodbye to asm.js
Disabling asm.js optimizations in SpiderMonkey
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A visual book recommender
Recreating the used bookstore experience via contrastive learning, t-SNE, and 100M book reviews.
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Firefox 80
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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Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project
Today I’d like to announce a new Mozilla project called ‘mozjpeg’. The goal is to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority ...
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Twitter is using its embedded JavaScript to hide tweets that have been deleted
With all the fuss about Twitter’s promised edit button, and how they might design it, we’re missing a disturbing development — Twitter is using its embedded javascript to edit other people’s sites.
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Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs
Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
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Defensive CSS
A list of defensive CSS techniques to avoid potential future issues
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Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?
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Offline First
Local-First software stores data on client devices for seamless offline and online functionality, enhancing user experience and efficiency.
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Websites Should Be Printable
I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whit…
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Deno Is Webby
The Deno team recently shipped Deno by example : Deno by example is a collection of annotated examples for how to use Deno, and the various features it…
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Moving Atom to React
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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From Bootstrap to CSS Grid
Despite many clever hacks and creative workarounds, there hasn’t been a simple answer for creating layout on the web. From misusing tables…
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Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
This blog post details how I found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which are vulnerabilities within the Chromium web browser which allowed for a sandbox escape from a browser extension.
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Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
One of the main reasons some people tend to avoid updating their PCs is that “it makes it slower”. Especially with Windows 10’s Software as a Service approach, where it gets the s…
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Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?
Cloudflare Pages 😍 I got into Cloudflare pages because it lets you host static websites with all the latest optimizations conveniently and for free. Setting up a static website with a custom domain is easy, and you get the benefits of automatic SSL, CDN, and latest version of HTTP3. This is how this blog is hosted and…
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Mastodon and Keybase
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