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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 338 posts.

2010
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A HTTP Proxy Server in 20 Lines of node.js Code

This is just amazing. In 20 lines of node.js code and 10 minutes of time I was able to write a HTTP proxy. Take a look: var http = require('http'); http.createServer(function(request, response) { var proxy = http.createClient(80, request.headers['host']) var proxy_request =...

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The Web Doesn't Suck. Browsers are Innovating.

This week saw a flurry of back-and-forth about the future of the web platform. In the "web sucks" camp were Sachin Agarwal of Posterous (The Web Sucks. Browsers need to innovate [http://sachin.posterous.com/the-web-sucks]) and Joe Hewitt (Sachin summarized some of his tweets at

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The iPhone obsession

Since my attempts at capturing web developers’ hearts and minds by publishing fundamental research have failed miserably but my thirst for attention continues unabated, today I will once more shout at iPhone developers. That’s proven to work .

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Deprecating XML

Someone asked me recently what I thought about XML being removed from the Twitter streaming API. Around the same time, I heard that Foursquare are also moving to a JSON-only API.

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C++: A language for next generation web apps

On Monday, I was pleased to be an uninvited speaker at <a href="http://devwaterloo.pbworks.com/">Waterloo Devhouse</a>, hosted in <a href="http://postrank.com">Postrank's</a> magnificent office. After making some surreptitious alterations to their agile development wall, I gave a tongue-in-cheek talk on how C++ can…