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Introducing chrome.scripting
The Scripting API is a new Manifest V3 API focused on, well, scripting. Let's dig into the motivations for this change and how it's different.
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Porn Spam on Google Maps
User Generated Content is great, innit? As a company, I want users to submit photos, so I don't have to do any content curation. Moderation? Nah mate, stick some AI on there to filter out anything offensive and we're golden. *sigh* James Whatley (inactive)@WhatleydudeSurprised Loch Ness isn't trending tbqh.❤️ 7💬 0🔁…
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Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders
You might know about Microsoft's Flight Simulator release in August last year and like me, if you're interested in flight simulators or photorealistic…
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Vivaldi Browser 5.0
Get all of the highlights and details of this release by visiting the blog. Read the release blog • [New][Themes] Theme sharing (VB-38363) • [New][Translate][Panel] Provide a new way to translate…
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Building a Django driver for Psycopg 3
Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.
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Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software
For a while now I’ve been telling people that I want Polypane to be prescriptive, not descriptive. In this article I want to expand on that and explain what I mean when I say “prescriptive”. I usually explain it like this: there is no shortage of tooling that will tell you everything you do wrong […]
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The Pretty JSON Revolution
Wouldn't it be nice if more JSON tools supported a truly pretty JSON format? Demand options for truly pretty JSON now! Viva la revolucion!
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Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup
It is always nice to follow a detailed guide and steps when building new rails apps. Below is a bit of guidance and step-by-step…
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Realtime Postgres Row Level Security
Realtime database changes are now broadcast to authenticated users, respecting the same PostgreSQL policies that you use for Row Level Security.
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Why I built my own static site generator
I really wanted to get a personal blog up quickly, but the most popular static site generators either didn't fit my needs or did way too much.
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Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows
How to create an adaptive app for desktops with Flutter, with a different UI design for macOS and Windows, while using a single codebase.
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To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM
Force Microsoft Edge to open a truly blank new tab page using a Windows Registry tweak when the built-in customization options fall short.
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AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing AWS Amplify Studio
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Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
Why everyone should use web monetization to help lower the amount of ads on the web
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What’s your API’s “Time To 200”?
M'colleague Charles has introduced me to the most spectacular phrase - "Time To 200". That's a measurement of the length of time it takes a new user to go from signing up to your API to getting their first HTTP 200 response. Think about the last time you started using a new API... Fill in a tediously long registration…
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?
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URLs: It's Complicated
Let's play silly games with URLs...
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Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/
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Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code
Further adventures in JavaScript
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How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
Just like Google Chrome, Vivaldi browser is built using the open-source Chromium code. So how different is Vivaldi from Chrome?
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First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Firefox 95 Released
RLBox — a new technology that hardens Firefox against potential security vulnerabilities in third-party libraries — is now enabled on all platforms.
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Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
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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Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
…same goes for option objects.
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Twitter.com's HTML, which is produced by React Native for Web, explained
Engineering and thoughts.
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