1981
RSS is awesome
Evan briefly discusses rss
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
1982
OpenCV in the browser using WebAssembly and web workers
Learn how to use OpenCV in the web without a lot of headaches.
1983
I switched from Htmx to Datastar
In 2022, David Guillot delivered an inspiring DjangoCon Europe talk , showcasing a web app that looked and felt as dynamic as a React app. Yet he and his team had done something bold. They converted it from React to HTMX , cutting their codebase by almost 70% while significantly improving its capabilities.
1984
1985
Firefox 62.0 Released
Thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
1986
How RSS beat Microsoft
Microsoft tried to own content syndication with ICE. How open RSS beat it, and what that war teaches us about open formats like email.
1987
Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js
I typically start new front-end prototypes with a single HTML file that I view using a file:// URL. I enjoy this practice of incrementally growing my projects, so I’ll keep working in that single file for as long as I can. Once it becomes unwieldy, I’ll split out the CSS and JavaScript into dedicated files. Then when…
1988
Introducing Shadow DOM API
We’re pleased to announce that basic support for the new slot-based shadow DOM API is now available in the nightly builds.
1989
SvelteKit Is in Public Beta
And we’d love to have your feedback
1990
How I use HTMX with Go
My new book guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real world web application in Go — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies, create dynamic database-driven pages, and how to authenticate and authorize users securely .
1991
Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%
Learn the image optimisation strategies I employed to shrink the page weight on my homepage from 1.1 MB to just under 450 KB
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1994
Observations running 2M headless sessions
Excited to share: 2 million sessions served! Here are best practices for running headless browsers (like Puppeteer) in production
1995
HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future
We are now happy to announce that QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare edge network. We’re excited to be joined in this announcement by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, two of the leading browser vendors and partners in our effort to make the web faster and more reliable for all.
1996
Web Performance 101
Learn how (and why) to make your app faster by optimizing JS, CSS, images/fonts and other things
1997
WebSockets RFC is now official
Search IETF mail list archives
1998
There's never been a better time to build websites
We're closing in on the end of 2021 and I'm as excited now about building websites as I've been in ~25 years.
1999
Second-guessing the modern web (2020)
What if everyone's wrong?
2000
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
Here’s a surprising fact: It costs money to watch video online, even on free sites like YouTube. That’s because about 4 in 5 videos on the web today re
2001
Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam
Today we’re adding a new feature to the Google+ platform: application sign-in . Whether you’re building an app for Android, iOS or the web, ...
2002
Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust
A fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust. Supports Web, Desktop, SSR, Liveview, and Mobile.
2003
2004
Reshaped is now open source
After five years of closed-source, Reshaped is finally open for all – both in React and Figma.
2005
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.
2006
The React Foundation
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…
2007
iPadOS 16
Apple today previewed iPadOS 16, a major update that makes the iPad experience even more versatile.
2008
Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition 43 and other modern browsers help websites to control third-party JavaScript loads and prevent unexpected or malicious modifications. Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a ...
2009
2010
Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
Good performance practices are still needed when developing fast web experience.