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Building Bluesky comments for my blog
I hate disqus too much.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash. Once upon a time, this would have been cause for celebration: after all, Flash is a proprietary technology owned by one company, a frequent source of critical vulnerabilities that expose...
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Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries many differences and modern out-of-the-box features that we’re glad to see used on a site of this magnitude. Dave Amirault…
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Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
Bringing Google Play — the most popular app store in the world — to Chromebooks.
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GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
If you hate it too this is why. Using color theory to show why GitHub dark mode is disappointing
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LinkedIn is ignoring user settings
Logged out users are prevented from reaching LinkedIn profiles set to complete public visibility
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OAuth Will Murder Your Children
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading
Today, after three years of development, we are launching version 1.0 of Uppy,
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Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
Gmail and Yahoo announce transformative updates to come in 2024. The updates impact senders but implementing the changes is easier than you think. Are you ready?
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Tor Browser 12.0
Tor Browser 12.0 is now available. This new release updates Tor Browser to Firefox Extended Support Release 102.
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Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
The Stable channel has been updated to 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/Mac and 145.0.7632.75 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming d...
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The self-hating web developer
I frequent /r/learnprogramming to help answer both technical and career oriented questions about programming. It's an extremely gratifying use of time.
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Firefox 79
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In ...
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Spaces launch in Element
Spaces rethink grouping rooms and people, fundamentally improving Element and Matrix to better group conversations instead of viewing all rooms all of the time.
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Django: what’s new in 6.0
Django 6.0 was released today, starting another release cycle for the loved and long-lived Python web framework (now 20 years old!). It comes with a mosaic of new features, contributed to by many, some of which I am happy to have helped with. Below is my pick of highlights from the release notes.
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Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
We talk a lot about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in the context of mobile devices, but they have an enormous potential on desktop operating systems that's only beginning to materialize. Recently, with many new web capabilities in the Chromium browser
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Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and the web are fast becoming the mobile operating system of the future.
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Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
Apple today announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.
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Feeling safer online with Firefox
The latest privacy and security improvements in Firefox [This post originally appeared on Medium ] Firefox is the only browse...
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An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year
We’re piloting an experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API with select embedded media providers early next year.
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Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18
A mathematical miracle enables Apple's servers to process your photos while never knowing anything about them