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TypeScript Features to Avoid
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Started by rafalp on Dec. 12, 2023 in the Roadmap category. 6 replies, last one from July 25, 2024.
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CSS is unnecessary given a layout language
CSS, a language for specifying visual appearance on the web, is … so complex that it has never been implemented correctly; yet, successive versions specify even more complexity. At the same time, it is so underpowered that many elementary graphic designs are impossible or prohibitively difficult, and…
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Monetize Your APIs in AWS Marketplace Using API Gateway
Shiva Krishnamurthy, Sr. Product Manager Amazon API Gateway helps you quickly build highly scalable, secure, and robust APIs. Today, we are announcing an integration of API Gateway with AWS Marketplace. You can now easily monetize your APIs built with API Gateway, market them directly to AWS customers, and reuse AWS…
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Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
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Phoenix Dev Blog – Streams
LiveView's new Streams feature is set to be a game changer and yet easy to use at the same time. Chris McCord writes this dev blog post shining a light onto this new feature.
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Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5
By Marcel Gordon, Product Manager, Swiffy Some Google projects really do start from one person hacking around. Last summer, an engineerin...
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Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)
Late last year, I had an idea that’s been steadily brewing in my head. I’ve found myself with some free time recently (it coincided with vacation, go figure), and I’ve hacked together some proof-of-concept code. Whether or not it is actually proving the concept I’m not sure, but the results are somewhat interesting…
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Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition
The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in…
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The adblocking revolution is months away
The thing about print adverts was that they stayed where they were. Photo by Bethan on Flickr. TL:DR: when Apple’s iOS 9 comes out in September, there’s going to be a dramatic uptake of…
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The Apple Watch
After one week wearing an Apple Watch, my big picture thoughts and observations. It all hinges on the Taptic Engine and digital touch communication.
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Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it
Typing shortcuts on international keyboard layouts is broken. Here is how developers can fix it.
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Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?
When people turn data into HTML tables using JavaScript, they either use the DOM methods (createElement() and the likes), but most of the time just append a huge string and use innerHTML, which always is a security concern. However, did you know that HTML tables also have an old, forgotten API ? Using this one, you…
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The internet is no longer a safe haven
A couple of days ago, the small server hosting this website was temporarily knocked out by scraping …
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Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
Ryanair are Europe’s most profitable airline and they are masters of this noble form.
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Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix
This is a story about a security vulnerability in Google that allowed me to run arbitrary code on the computers of 50+ Google employees. Although Google initially considered my finding a serious security incident, later on, it changed its mind and stated that my finding is not, in fact, a vulnerability, but the…
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Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved
While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links.We un…
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Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
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You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years
The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic—and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from...
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Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the Cloud
We have just launched Neon to provide you with the best Postgres experience in the cloud. You can sign up to our waitlist right now and experience serverless Postgres enabled by the separation of storage and compute. The service is still gated by the waitlist as we are onboarding more and more users every day, and we…