Recently, I've been getting a lot of spam notifications from Google Drive. Here's a sample: The notifications come direct to my Android phone via the Drive app - they don't appear in my Gmail spam folder. There is no way to report the abuse. If I go to the list of notification in the Android apps, there's no option to…
On January 13th 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox.
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago. We thought we'd give a full status update. If you are new to Kagi - Kagi search is an attempt to make the...
Discover the 9 best ecommerce UX practices from the world's top B2B ecommerce sites that made the top of HackerNews as the best ecommerce site.
Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the performance of our React apps.
I first heard about the dinosaur 🦕 VS shark 🦈 analogy when I read this excellent article about relational databases:
We should look for ways to make reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I'm calling this model "the unbundled web," and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop.
Apple today previewed iPadOS 16, a major update that makes the iPad experience even more versatile.
Firefox can now do offline and privacy-preserving translation of eight languages with more on the way. Powered by open-source and machine-learning.
Today, Let's Encrypt announced that they are enabling an extension to DNS CAA records known as ACME-CAA ( RFC 8657 ). This came as a surprise to me, but a very pleasant one, since I wrote the ACME-CAA specification back in 2016 with Let's Encrypt in mind, and it was finally published as RFC 8657 back in 2019. To my…
After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the whole, we lost an amazing opportunity. In its place we have a consumption machine that creates bubbles and assumes new…
Even if you already know a bit (or a lot) of SwiftUI, Stanford’s course is incredible, amazing, wonderful, AND FREE!
New details about the plan to move extensions to Manifest V3
It's been a while since I introduced a new syntax to the css-doodle project to solve my own problems. While I'm not sure it would be useful elsewhere, I need to make some notes before I forget the details.
Does it ever feel like the internet is getting worse? That’s been my impression for the last decade. The internet feels now like it consists of ten big sites, plus fifty auxiliary sites that come up whenever you search for something outside of the everyday ten. It feels like it’s harder to find amateur opinions on…
Learn about the core building blocks of the WebSocket technology and discover the benefits of event-driven architectures with WebSockets.
The orange site is currently discussing an article about Server-Sent Events, especially as compared with WebSockets (and the emerging WebTransport). Both the article and discussion are well-informed, but I think they miss out on one aspect that has fairly deep implications.
Bun is the newest and fastest all-in-one JavaScript framework. Will it take over Node? Is it better than Deno? Let's do some testing.
Just about everybody who has ever used a service on the web has experienced the following account creation follow:
Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem. Browsing and searching the web sensibly has become all but impossible. In response, today we are launching the public beta of two essential tools that...
Although Tailwind does have some benefits, ultimately it’s just one more thing to learn.
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
Build fast, personalized web experiences with Netlify Edge Functions: a serverless runtime built for on Deno, and compatible with your favorite JavaScript frameworks.
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.
While I wasn’t paying attention, PHP got quite good
What are the biggest trends and developments in web scraping? What does 2022, likely have in store for web scraping?
Daydreaming a post-HTML Utopia
