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"ProductHunt has over 1 million user signups. More than 60 of those are bots."
I need to study this to prevent it happening on Linkatopia
| Oct 2, 2024
Completely open source tiled map, either self hosted or free public instance. No API keys, no limits. Looks amazing!!
| Oct 1, 2024
OAuth from First Principles - Stack Auth
Nice set of diagrams showing how advanced OAuth 2.0 works and the various security issues it solves
| Sep 6, 2024
Is it better to be a Jack-of-All-Trades or a Master-of-One? : r/webdev
Really good discussion here... its relatable
| Aug 30, 2024
Cringey, But True: How Uber Tests Payments In Production
"You are wasting most of the time you spend testing..."
| Aug 21, 2024
html - Setting max z-index of Google Adsense's auto ads - Stack Overflow
I just posted my answer for this bizarre problem I had to solve recently. Google ads are using a Z-index of 2147483647, which is the highest integer value in CSS. These ads are essentially giving you the middle finger!
| Sep 28, 2023
Web.dev Sign-in form best practices
A nice guide to creating usable sign-in forms. I think I'm following almost everything here
| Sep 11, 2023
Markup Void elements validator/validator Wiki GitHub
An explanation of why NOT to use trailing slashes in void-element tags like img and br. I used to do this years ago but for HTML5 it's not necessary and causes validation errors
| Jan 7, 2023
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) on iOS 13 and 14, iPhone and iPad
Pretty good article from Jan 2021. Covers all of the general questions about PWAs but does NOT get into the code itself.
| Mar 31, 2022
USA state list HTML select snippet - FreeFormatter.com
Nice collection of snippets, validators, and tools here
| Mar 18, 2022
Turn off HTML Input Auto Fixups for Mobile Devices - Rick Strahl's Web Log
article from 2015 that is still SUPER relevant
| Mar 3, 2022
Favicon Generator for perfect icons on all browsers
This might be the best, most up to date one. I started using this site in 2020 and I just used it again today.
| Jan 26, 2022
css - How to use HTML to print header and footer on every printed page of a doc
Lots of interesting answers here. None are solid. Some MAY work in SOME browsers, SOME of the time. I just find this crazy in 2022.
| Jan 16, 2022
| Jan 15, 2022
What Are Favicons: Everything You Need to Know in 2021
Updated 2020 article with all of the different sizes, and Microsoft's browserconfig.xml
| Jan 7, 2022
| Dec 22, 2021
This is a very simple explanation of defer and async, with examples
| Nov 4, 2021
This is where a web page changes/updates while you're trying to read it and causes you to lose your place. More stuff to learn how to fix and/or prevent
| May 31, 2021
Introduction - Everything curl
| Mar 5, 2021
Using Emojis in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript | KIRUPA
| Feb 22, 2021
Trident User Agents - WhatIsMyBrowser.com
Searchable database of millions of user agents
| Feb 19, 2021
JavaScript Performance in the Wild 2020
Interesting look at protocols, libraries, and other factors that can make one site faster or slower than another
| Jan 27, 2021
Switch font color for different backgrounds with CSS | CSS-Tricks
This is brilliant except it doesn't work in IE or Edge. Why am I even surprised lol
| Nov 17, 2020
Stateful vs. Stateless Web App Design - API Blog: Everything You Need to Know
This Sept 2020 blog post is trying to sell its own service, but does a decent job of explaining the differences between stateful and stateless web apps.
| Nov 16, 2020
Jens Segers - A stateless blog with Webmentions
This article describes "webmentions" a W3C recommendation for notifying a url when someone links to it. But what's a "stateless" blog? I saved another article that explains this, lol.
| Oct 31, 2020
8 Tips on How to Reduce DNS Lookups and Speed Them Up
Mostly stuff for Wordpress but some of it could apply anywhere
| Oct 15, 2020
Mathematics for programmers (early draft) - Math-for-programmers.pdf
There is some great stuff in here on primes, encryption, probability, auto-complete, etc
| Sep 25, 2020
How to use the Fetch API in JavaScript
| Sep 13, 2020
Adaptive icon support in PWAs with maskable icons
| Aug 22, 2020
Add to Home screen - Progressive web apps (PWAs) | MDN
this example is based on Pete LePage's code
| Aug 17, 2020
The ultimate favicon generator - Favic-o-Matic
| Aug 6, 2020
| Jul 2, 2020
Compare your mobile site speed
| Mar 15, 2019
Server doesn't boot after upgrading from 10.3 to 11.2 | The FreeBSD Forums
This is my first post on the FreeBSD forums
| Dec 16, 2018
Triggering Numeric Keyboards with HTML5
| Aug 19, 2018
apache - Redirecting https://www to https://non-www - without seeing certificate
This is an issue if your SSL cert doesn't handle www
| Jun 20, 2018
The Danger of Dogfooding - Inside Intercom
| Jun 17, 2018
| Jun 7, 2018
Responsive Web Design Introduction
This is a good example to show people what "responsive" means
| May 21, 2018
Introduction to ARIA | Web Fundamentals | Google Developers
How to add extra attributes to custom interface items for mobile
| May 18, 2018
php - How to safely display external pictures? - Information Security Stack Exch
One example of how to safely allow users to link images.
| May 8, 2018
My way to safely display external pictures GitHub
Detailed code from the same author of the previous saved post
| May 8, 2018
| May 2, 2018
| Apr 25, 2018
Form Inputs: The Browser Support Issue You Didn't Know You Had '" Smashing Magaz
This article lists all the problems with form fields and type="number"
| May 2, 2017
view the source of this page for a look at an interesting effect.
| Mar 3, 2017
Find out what a web site was built with and what cms and other services are being used.
| Aug 7, 2016
IP2Location' IP-Country-Region-City Database [DB3] | IP2Location.com
There are links at the bottom to free databases
| Jul 3, 2016
How can I check if a MySQL table exists with PHP? - Stack Overflow
Even though this isn't the accepted answer, it looks like the best:
if(mysql_query("DESCRIBE [table]")) {
| Jun 14, 2016
Window.open() - Web APIs | MDN
All you ever wanted to know about opening popup browser windows in Javascript.
| Jun 6, 2016
html - Href attribute for JavaScript links: "#" or "javascript:void(0)"? - Stack
Lengthy discussion of how to write Javascript links
| Apr 17, 2016
Gmail SMTP Settings & New Security Measures Demystified
| Feb 25, 2016
A Beginner's Guide to HTTP Cache Headers | Mobify
Cache-Control: no-transform,public,max-age=300,s-maxage=900
| Feb 3, 2016
Developing for Multi-Touch Web Browsers - HTML5 Rocks
| Jan 13, 2016
Yumpu.com - Account - Create - Create
| Dec 24, 2015
MySQL :: MySQL 5.5 Reference Manual :: 2.11.1.1 Changes Affecting Upgrades to 5.
Upgrading to MySQL 5.5 from earlier versions
| Dec 23, 2015
Cookie blocked/not saved in IFRAME in Internet Explorer - Stack Overflow
header('P3P: CP="Potato"'); HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
| Dec 22, 2015
Building custom file browser for TinyMCE version 4
| Dec 5, 2015
Test and Optimize Website Speed - GiftOfSpeed
| Nov 15, 2015
Matthew Kenney Cuisine: Crafting the Future of Food
Look at the features of this site
| Nov 11, 2015
| Nov 9, 2015
20 Excellent Free Rich-Text Editors | Webdesigner Depot
| Sep 29, 2015
Virtual Machine (VM), Windows Virtual PC & BrowserStack : Microsoft Edge Dev
Download virtual machines to test various versions of Internet Exploder
| Sep 8, 2015
Multi-Device Layouts '" Web Fundamentals
| Apr 13, 2015
Instafeed.js - a simple Instagram javascript plugin
| Sep 21, 2014
How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?
http://img.youtube.com/vi/[video id]/mqdefault.jpg
| Jun 9, 2014
Global browser, operating system, and screen resolution statistics
| Feb 2, 2014
.htaccess tricks and tips.. part two: url rewriting with mod rewrite.
A really good guide to .htaccess
This guy also has some free code called the "distro machine" for downloading files.
| Jun 18, 2013
NoSQL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Jun 5, 2013
| Nov 9, 2012
| Nov 9, 2012
Everything you always wanted to know about touch icons Mathias Bynens
Fairly comprehensive article on touch icons.
| Sep 21, 2012
Can't receive mail from a web form - Google Apps Help
| Dec 26, 2011
| Dec 13, 2011
FedEx Developer Resource Center Home
| Jul 11, 2011
USPS - Web Tools Registration Web Page
For calculating shipping rates from a shopping cart
| Jun 5, 2011
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro
| Mar 2, 2011
The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
| Dec 28, 2010
Panic - Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X
Coda, One window web development.*
| Nov 22, 2010
iPhoney - Free iPhone web simulator
works great on my macbook! Unfortunately it just acts like the Safari browser and not exactly like the iphone. I have some sites that work great in iPhoney but have some issues on the iPhone. Guess I need Apple's official SDK
| Mar 6, 2008
Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator
| Mar 4, 2008
Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheet Guide
Javascript, CSS, XHTML, AJAX (The list includes the Design215 CSS Quick Reference!)
| Feb 26, 2008
Cheat Sheets - ILoveJackDaniels.com
A bunch of nice cheat sheets and quick reference charts in PDF format.
| Feb 26, 2008
A comprehensive collection of cheat sheets for almost all web dev categories.
| Feb 26, 2008
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