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Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash
So there I was, happily closing out some tabs before heading to bed, when I noticed a new email from the Chrome Web Store at 12:30am: I went to Intention's…
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The Safari bug that never was (2022)
In October 2021, Ian, a fellow frontend developer at GDS posted a message in our support channel for the GOV.UK Design System on Slack:
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The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
Firstly, the Apple vs. Adobe vendetta gets even nastier, with a public letter from Steve Jobs explaining why Adobe's Flash multimedia format will not ever be allowed into the garden of pure ideology that is the iPhone/iPad fork of OSX.
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Django 1.8 released
Posted by Tim Graham on April 1, 2015
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React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity
The mobile team at Udacity recently removed the last features in our apps using React Native. Here's what worked and what didn't.
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Designing an audio adblocker
We present an innovative technique to detect ads in radio streams and podcasts, featuring machine learning and Shazam-like detection. It works pretty well!
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Vue.js vs. React: what happened in 2017
One year ago I've published a post about reasons why our team chose Vue.js over React for our qwintry.com project rewrite. I've made some predictions back then: I expect Vue to become a primary JS framework in 16-24 months if Evan You makes right steps, at least around
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Introducing the Dweb
This is the first post in a series about the distributed/decentralized web, introducing projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application ...
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“Make” as a static site generator (2022)
Static site generators are in fashion for good reasons. The resulting pages are easy to host, fast and extremely low on maintenance while being sufficient for many use cases. As I learned when setting up my blog , writing a simple script myself is faster and more satisfying than learning one of the other site builders…
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A new breed of Chrome Apps
Editor's note: Today marks the 5th birthday of Chrome, a project we started to push the web platform forward. From a humble beginning of s...
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Free Wordpress themes coming with a price
There are so many free WordPress themes out there it can put your head in a spin. This post is the one-stop resource for info about free WordPress Themes
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Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app
Discover critical Feeld app vulnerabilities from our pentest. See how flaws in security controls expose personal data and learn key fixes.
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Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
Lotus is a complete web framework for Ruby with a strong emphasis on object oriented design and testability. If you use it, you employ less DSLs and more objects, zero monkey-patching, separation of concerns between MVC layers. Each library is designed to be small, fast and testable.
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Building a website like it's 1999
I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I've recreated some of that old web magic, in modern HTML, CSS and JS.
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A masochist's guide to web development
I have recently worked on making a web application out of my latest Rubik’s cube optimal solver . This involved building a rather complex C code base (with multithreading, SIMD, callback functions and whatnot) to WebAssembly via Emscripten , and writing a minimal amount of JavaScript and HTML for the frontend.
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Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
Alexander Petros give a thoughtful exploration of htmx's relationship to traditional JavaScript frameworks, examining how its HTML-first approach and narrow focus on network requests sets it apart. He argues that while htmx exhibits framework-like qualities in how it shapes application architecture, its deep…
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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?
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Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999)
But these browsers have one great feature: They give a very good indication whether a page is worth reading. If these browsers don't display anything, or the display looks shitty, there usually is not much content, either (In a few cases I looked up the page with something more advanced (e.g., Arena), and I was always…
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Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
From jQuery widgets to the first frameworks, component-centric view layers like React, and today's full-stack frameworks: a look back at each era of JavaScript development and what it taught us.
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Flash and Chrome
Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5, giving you improved security, reduced power consumption and faster page load times.
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Introduction to HTML Components
HTML Components (HTC), introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5, offers a powerful new way to author interactive Web pages. Using standard DHTML, JScript and CSS knowledge, you can define custom behaviors on elements using the “behavior” attribute. Let’s create a behavior for a simple kind of “image roll-over” effect. For…
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You should know this before choosing Next.js
Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision. In the enterprise space in particular, it often involves a multi-year commitment with long-lasting implication...
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Textual Web: TUIs for the Web
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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Roll Your Own Analytics
How to build a free, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics