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Why I don't like Tailwind CSS
On paper, Tailwind CSS sounds like a great idea. In reality, it suffers from the same problems that it tries to solve.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
Our future's so bright, we need ISO-approved shades. Find out what's shiny in our new Extended Security Release, Thunderbird 140 "Eclipse."
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Just use a button
One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a <div> is “just as good” as a <button>. Spoiler: it’s not. Let’s dig in. The problem Among the React crowd, and also among people who seem to enjoy HTMX, I see a lot this… <div onclick="showSignIn()">…
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Chrome Is The New C Runtime
At Dropbox, security is our highest priority. Find out how Dropbox secures your files and data, and why millions of people trust us with what matters most.
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A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor
Recently, my team and I fixed an absolutely bizarre bug that only one person in the team could reproduce. And to make it even weirder, she was only able to reproduce the issue when using her work laptop at home; it worked fine with the same laptop in the office.
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The future of MDN: a focus on web docs
Building MDN into a world class repository of high quality Web documentation is one of the most valuable things Mozilla has done for Web developers. Now we’re looking to double-down ...
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Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme
A blog about software craft and quality
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Race conditions on Facebook, DigitalOcean and others (fixed)
Hello, Lately I have been looking into race condition bugs affecting websites/web-applications. Here is a good resource to learn about th...
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The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
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In defense of <canvas>
My friend and fellow Chicagoan Evan Miller wrote an excellent blog post over the weekend: Why I Develop For The Mac . It's full of great reasons why his software (which is also excellent, by the way) was written for the desktop, despite the fact that he's a web developer, even the creator of an Erlang web framework .
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Comparing Svelte and React
Last year I created Pomodone , a small time tracking application based on the Pomodoro technique of working in 25 minute intervals. It's a pretty basic app; it has a 25 minute timer (that runs in a Web Worker) and saves a history of your "poms" to a small Firebase database. I initially built it using React (well…
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We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript - and it got 3x Faster
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
An enticing social media preview summary.
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Ionic React
Today we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Ionic React, a native React version of Ionic Framework that makes it easy to build apps for iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web as a Progressive Web App. All with one code base, standard React development patterns, and using the standard react-dom library and…
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A single tweet page is 2.0 MB
Michal Migurski's notebook, listening post, and soapbox. Subscribe to this blog . Check out the rest of my site as well.
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Chrome Devtools Tips and Tricks
Lately I’ve spent more time than usual using the Chrome Developer Tools. Along the way I found a couple of nice features that I had previously missed (or at ...
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Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
Why Astro is perfect for content-driven sites: island architecture, zero JS by default, and blazing-fast performance.
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Python 3.11 in the Web Browser
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.
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The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare
Media over QUIC: We have a winner! Cloudflare has released a technical preview of their MoQ CDN. Now you can use MoQ at scale with style and grace.