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Pay attention to WebAssembly
Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Rails for everything
After spending part of my holiday building and deploying a new Rails 8 application, It's clearer than ever that Rails is awesome, and it's especially great f...
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Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
Traditional Wayland compositors have a monolithic architecture that combines the compositor and window manager into a single program. This has the downside of requiring Wayland window managers to do the significant work of implementing an entire Wayland compositor as well.
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Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
Intended audience: You are likely to enjoy this post the most if you are interested in Linux and/or Linux manual pages, or if you enjoy reading about esoteric programming projects.
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Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave
Paul Miller. I make projects which help developers to build awesome things
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Reddit API Pricing Would Cost Apollo Developer $20M per Year
Link to: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
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DuckDuckGo Search Improvements
We're excited to share several improvements to DuckDuckGo Search that should make your searching not only more effective, but also a more pleasant experience.
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React as a UI Runtime
An in-depth description of the React programming model.
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Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers
Google Chrome's new platform for extensions, Manifest V3, threatens to limit the functionality of ad blockers. Firefox has found a way around this problem. Read how.
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Litestar is worth a look
A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation …
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An interactive guide to SVG paths
An interactive guide to understanding SVG paths and path commands.
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Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service
We are piloting an advertising program that we expect will enable us to continue providing basic users with access to our robust platform.
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Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs
While links aren’t widely used in APIs, some very prominent web APIs use links based on HTTP URLs to represent relationships, which has several advantages. This post shows you why.
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We are rewriting CodeMirror
In-browser code editor
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Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please
Update: This feature is now also enabled in Firefox Beta, starting with Firefox Beta 50. Pretty much everyone who uses the web has used a password to log into something. ...
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Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS
So in my post Is this evil? I covered a way of tracking users with CSS. While thinking about those weird ways of using the web I also started thinking about pushing live data to clients without JS. Or at least maintaining a connection. So WebSockets requires JS. WebRTC requires JS. Even HLS (video streaming), which…
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Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
Today I tried to help a friend who is a great computer scientist, but not a JS person use a JS module he found on Github. Since for the past 6 years my day job is doing usability research & teaching at MIT, I couldn’t help but cringe at the slog that this was. Lo and behold, a pile of unnecessary error conditions…
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iOS 14 is available today
iOS 14 reimagines the iPhone experience, delivering a major update to the Home Screen, widgets, and App Clips.
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The Open Web Is Dying
It\'s difficult to comprehend that there would be anything else more important right now than public health and the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the midst of it all
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Django 2.2
Posted by Carlton Gibson on April 1, 2019
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The RSS feed reader landscape
More than a feed reader, a content curation system to find the top articles of all sources
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Django 3.1
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Aug. 4, 2020
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Thunderbird in 2019
From the Thunderbird team we wish you a Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019, and in this blog post we’ll look at what we got accomplished in 2018 and look forward to what we’re going to be working on this year. Looking Back on 2018 More Eggs in the Nest Our team grew considerably in […]
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Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead