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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 437 posts.

2024
121

A modest critique of Htmx

At work, we really like the basic simple idea of Htmx. Based on using Htmx in a non-trivial user interface, across a team, we’ve found that the following cases are actually not simple and are quite complicated.

123

Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS

As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.

125

Kate editor on all platforms

Unix like systems with X11 or Wayland All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever. Linux with X11 and now Wayland is for a long time the primary system on that Kate work happens. Over the years it was, like most of the KDE applications, ported to various BSD variants. Be it some…

127

JSON Patch

JSON Patch is a simple, efficient, and standardized way to apply partial updates to JSON documents, especially over HTTP. Learn how it works in production.

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Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?

Alexander Petros give a thoughtful exploration of htmx's relationship to traditional JavaScript frameworks, examining how its HTML-first approach and narrow focus on network requests sets it apart. He argues that while htmx exhibits framework-like qualities in how it shapes application architecture, its deep…

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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)

With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?