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datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages I was looking at the Firefox network panel today when I noticed that requests to a Datasette table page were triggering an HTTP prefetch…
Okay, so I published this crate called closed about a week ago. It's basically std::function for Rust if anyone's curious. I haven't done any marketing at all — no Reddit, no Twitter, zero. Just pushed 8 versions fixing…
My comment on Terry Pratchett's Study — Hacker News. Terry Pratchett once wrote about the concept of "horizontal wealth". Vertical wealth is where you spend money on rich people stuff - yachts and suchlike. Horizontal…
I have an application that passes around a lot of Arc<dyn Whatever>, and many of the traits have do-nothing or default implementations on a zero-sized type that can be used in a lot of cases. Unfortunately, Arc<T>::new…
fn main() { println!("Hello, world!"); } Hello my fellow rustaceans! This is my first rust code, I needed to format this code automatically, when I run the cargo fmt it does not work or format it. Any help plz. 8 posts…
A rally stage can fit inside a URL: the seed, distance, terrain, and season are enough to describe a run that someone else can open. That is the core of Dirtbound — The Rally Field Guide, an independent companion site I…
Swapping a bundler is easy. Knowing what you promised your consumers is the hard part. I migrated two packages of our design system (cortex-core and cortex-react) from Rollup to Rolldown. Before touching the tool, I…
Tuần này trên Hacker News có một post hơn 700 điểm: ai đó cho Need for Speed Underground 2 chạy online ngay trong browser. Một game PC từ 2004, viết bằng C++, giờ chỉ cần mở một tab là chơi được. Đằng sau những project…
This is a submission for the Presage SmartSpectra SDK Challenge What I Built 2 AM incident calls are when engineers run the worst commands of their careers. Your pulse is past 105 BPM, your hands are typing fast, and…
Is JavaScript gaslighting me, or is there a logic to this? I hit this line at about 1 a.m., laptop on a pillow, one eye open. I read the result, read it again, and seriously considered that the language was making fun…
Most image compressors give you a quality slider and wish you luck. You pick 80%, export, check the size, and repeat until the file fits under the limit. ToolsByUs Compress Image does it the other way round: you state…
I work on OnePassApps, the team behind app.onepassapps.com, so this is our own site. Every status code, byte count and header below was measured on 7 November 2026 with plain HTTPS - one GET per URL, no browser, no…
I started my career as a designer, and very early on, I learned how important it was to have a portfolio. When I decided to transition from Product and User Experience Design to Software Engineering, I soon realized…
Search behavior has fundamentally shifted. Today, millions of high-intent buyers ask ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews which SaaS tool, agency, clinic, or service provider to hire instead of…
Most online GIF makers upload your video to a server, add a watermark, and bury the download button under ads. I wanted the opposite, so I built Snipgif: a free, open-source video-to-GIF converter where your file never…
Full disclosure: I work on OnePassApps, the team behind app.onepassapps.com. Two of the OnePassApps apps fill their first screen from a shared guest endpoint, so a signed-out visitor sees something before making an…
Statutory tax laws frequently contain discontinuous step-functions ('cliffs') where a single dollar of additional consideration or estate valuation triggers tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in retroactive tax…
Our guide to outgrowing Google Sheets lists six signs that a business needs a real system. Sign 3 is the one people reach for first: the file is slow, scripts time out, a filter takes eight seconds. It is also the…
When we shipped Next.js support in JOPS 1.1.0, we said the desktop was next. After a short detour through WordPress, we've arrived: with jops-core 1.1.6, a JOPS single-page app can be the UI of an Electron desktop app,…
I work on OnePassApps, so this is our own app, and every figure below was measured in it in a signed-out Chrome session on 7 November 2026. The Calendar Maker takes two numbers: how many months to print, and which year…
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