Links that are clickable
Links I find worth reading, with notes.
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2025
History and culture of teletext services in the U.S./Canada.
A tool designed to surface Hacker News threads that flew under the radar.
The author argues that most sites (or features) can be built with little to no JavaScript.
Cloudflare is promising 'One-Click to Make Your Site Conversational' with tooling that combines RAG and natural-language query support via NLWeb. This simplifies the process of adding an AI-powered search or chat layer to web projects because you don't need to build or manage multiple complex systems.
Interesting patent that suggests CPUs could reconfigure cores dynamically under software control.
Addy Osmani reflects on Chrome history and possible futures.
Debuggers vs traditional print-based debugging and how they improve introspection.
Passive feed consumption is the game mechanic here.
'Async' here is used by the author to describe handing off work to an AI agent and coming back later to evaluate the results.
Visual catalogue / topology of European public transit stations and transfers.
A font that's **2px tall** that's also somehow still (somewhat) readable.
A font that's **2px wide** but still (somewhat) readable.
The cost of creating code is approaching zero. Have costs of code shifted somewhere else?
How to apply performance practices: eliminating redundant calculations, using a compiled language, leveraging parallelism, and optimizing process management.
Another fancy way to group noisy PRs from the bot you hate to love.
Analyzing recent trends in web crawling, which now has a crucial and complex new role with the rise of AI.
Could this model offset some of the impact of AI scrapers/training?
CodeQL can now scan Rust code for security issues.
"With the rise of the internet came the need to find information more quickly. The concept of search engines came into this space to fill this need, with a relatively basic initial design."
Google is starting to roll out a new UI for exploring search console performance.
A Bloom filter is a data structure designed to tell you whether an element is present in a set. You can use Bloom filters for many use cases and they often have outsized performance impact on your projects when used appropriately.
IBM has built a new AI model for time series forecasting, backfilling missing data, classification, and pattern detection.
Overview of modern bot detection techniques, covering everything from basic bot behavior and IP reputation to advanced fingerprinting (TCP, TLS, JavaScript), proxy detection methods, headless browser detection, CAPTCHA strategies, and behavioral analysis.
A redesigned files-changed page for pull requests, now in public preview.
"This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are online, to avoid serving dead links and improve data quality, and for detecting when websites have significant changes including ownership transfers and parking."
The GitHub CLI now supports Git configurations used in triangular workflows. Explore triangular workflows, how they function, and how to set them up for your projects.
Front-end development tools and guides, including a color contrast checker, a CSS specificity calculator, an HTML form inspector, and a guide to CSS media queries.