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The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
“Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” That’s Google’s stated mission. But what if the world's information becomes…
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.
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When network is faster than browser cache (2020)
We assume that browser caches are near-instantaneous, but data shows that retrieving an object from cache can take hundreds of milliseconds!
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State Partitioning
State Partitioning is the new privacy feature called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86.
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Announcing Quill 1.0
Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. Completely customize it for any need with its modular architecture and expressive API.
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Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
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Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet
Why owning your own domain and publishing on the open web beats renting attention from Reddit, Discord, Facebook, and other mega-concentrated platforms.
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Home Screen Advantage
Cupertino's attempt to scuttle Progressive Web Apps under cover of chaos is exactly what it appears to be: a shocking attempt to keep the web from ever emerging as a true threat to the App Store and blame regulators for Apple's own malicious choices. By hook or by crook, Apple's going to maintain its home screen…
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Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
I am a software engineer based out of Seattle, WA
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I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
Why did an IPFS+ENS websites pioneer like me moved his blog from IPFS to a regular server?
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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management
The Explicit Resource Management proposal empowers developers to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources.
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State of CSS
Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras.
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Our Copyfish extension was stolen and adware-infested
News and tutorials on AI, Computer Vision, OCR, Anthropic Computer Use, LLM, and its applications in automating daily office tasks. In short: Robotic process automationation (RPA).
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What Do You Agree to When You Accept All Cookies
I have been writing software for exactly twenty years now. In the course of this I have learnt very many things, which I hope to journal over time.
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Bootstrap 3.3.0 and Bootstrap 4
Bootstrap 3.3.0 is here! This release has been all about bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and documentation updates. We've had over 700 commits from 28…
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CSS coding techniques
Lately, we have seen a lot of people struggling with CSS, from beginners to seasoned developers. Some of them don't like the way it works, and wonder if replacing CSS ...
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Tor Browser 6.0 is released
The Tor Browser Team is proud to announce the first stable release in the 6.0 series. This...
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Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
It was Jan last year that I suggested HTTPS adoption had passed the "tipping point" [https://www.troyhunt.com/https-adoption-has-reached-the-tipping-point/], that is, it had passed the moment of critical mass [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point] and as I said at the
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WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
wingolog: article: webassembly: the new kubernetes?
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Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2
Credit to Brad Sams for first reporting on this, Alongside the Windows 11 announcement today, Rish Tandon, the CVP Engineering for Microsoft Teams, posted on Twitter about changes coming to Microsoft Teams architecture. It gave a lot of useful insight into what is coming. Microsoft Teams is...
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You don't need a build step
The build step helps Node.js/npm run in the browser, optimize end-user performance, etc. But long build times limit productivity. With modern tooling, do we still need a build step?