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Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
Speedrunning A11y in SwiftUI
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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AWS Lambda function URLs: Built-in HTTPS endpoints
Organizations are adopting microservices architectures to build resilient and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. These applications are composed of multiple serverless functions that implement the business logic. Each function is mapped to API endpoints, methods, and resources using services such as Amazon API…
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Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project
After a year of working with a large AngularJS project, I thought I’d share a few of the lessons that I learned in the process. Firstly, I love AngularJS. It suits my needs exceedingly well, and I expect it will be my goto for the forseeable future when I need a solid framework for “thick client” single page…
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A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (2018)
There’s an art and even a bit of magic around simple frontend code. Writing such code comes with a few preconditions: perhaps a firm understanding of core technologies, a lot of practice, public scrutiny, and then some. Thoughts.
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Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org
We are happy to announce the deployment of Vector Tiles on OpenStreetMap Foundation servers and the publication of the layer on the OSM website ! We have been working hard to bring you a fresh look to OSM data, paired with exciting technological upgrades.
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Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader
With Google Reader’s impending shutdown, lots of new feed-sync services and self-hostable projects will be popping up.
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Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one ...
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App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)
Discover why native apps are becoming obsolete in today's web-first world. Learn how web apps, including web games, are revolutionizing industries and how platforms like Rogue Engine are leading the charge.
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XML is a cheap DSL
Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.
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FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Microsoft FrontPage has its thorns, but don't discount the fact that those thorns are attached to a rose.
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Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections
Months ago I noticed something strange in the Little Snitch Network Monitor: Safari was still connecting to web sites after every window had been closed. At the time, I thought this was just a Safari bug. I brought the issue to the attention of some Safari engineers, who I had hoped would look into it. Since then…
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Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57
Firefox 57 not only ships a large amount of performance improvements and a UI refresh, it also contains a number of technological improvemen...
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When a video codec wins an Emmy
It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em
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There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
I recently worked on the update to the ASP.NET site, now in beta at ...
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Shadow DOM
Why HTML/CSS is broken and how to fix it.
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The History of the URL
January 11th, 1982, 22 computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email).
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Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components
Server Components run on the server instead of the client, giving you control over your bundle size and data fetching. Here’s everything we learned about them.
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The “Developer Experience” Bait-And-Switch
We cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now normal and expect the web to flourish. At the same time, most developers experience no constraint on their use of JS...until it's too late. Lightweight, effective tools are here, but we're stuck in a rhetorical rut. We need to reset our conversation about…
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Bunny AI
Bunny.net introduces Bunny AI, a multi-model image engine creating images via simple URLs. Powered by OpenAI and StabilityAI, Bunny AI generates dynamic profile avatars and more. Try it free in our experimental release and help us shape the future of internet performance!
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Stop using Material Design text fields
Why you shouldn't use or imitate the text fields from Google's Material Design UI library.
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Tor Browser 9.5
Tor Browser 9.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.