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RemovePaywall | Free online paywall remover
Paywall removal tool. These seem to be a bit of a moving target (or rather the success with which they work is), so it's good to have a collection of them.
slash pages
Fun little guide to all sorts of "common" pages you could add to a website. I imagine most people would never discover them, but I like it as an idea.
gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website - eva's site
So I’m glad I never got comfortable with Arc, having briefly tried it and not really liked it.
giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
How to win at CORS
A comprehensive introduction to CORS.
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
A tutorial on getting to grips with WebGPU.
Stop using Brave Browser
Some problematic history relating to the Brave browser.
In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
A love letter to the square checkbox.
Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives
The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla's reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:
- The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)
- While the Mozilla revenue drops
- And the Firefox Marketshare takes a nosedive
- While, at first, this seems ridiculously lopsided... perhaps it actually makes sense.
Hexcodle | The Daily Hexcode Guessing Game!
While it's fairly trivial to beat in a number of different ways, it's a fun idea.
HTTP raccoons
HTTP status codes as raccoons as a service.
Kinda like the cat one, only with less cat and more raccoon.
Render: Cloud Application Hosting for Developers
Like it says on the tin, pretty much. They seem to have a rather nice static site hosting tier that's free.
Try out CSS Nesting today
CSS nesting in webkit.
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time.
You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time.
Bioicons - high quality science illustrations
Handy collection of biology-related icons.
12ft.io - Remove paywalls
Tool to try and remove paywalls from news sites.
Why logging out via a GET URL is a bad idea
Fun tweet from a while ago now that highlights the fun to be had by having side-effects hanging off a GET rather than a POST; from a time when it more or less still wasn't quite the issue it ended up being.
Web WinAmp
Webamp, it really whips the llama's ass!
www.nearlyfreespeech.net
Very affordable website hosting. Might have a look at this the next time I want to spin up a low-content site or custom blog or something.
Indexing outgoing blog links
Nice idea that I might have to try myself some time: index and analyse the outgoing links from blog posts to see what it is you link to the most.
AVIF has landed
Interesting article about a newer image file format; well worth paying attention to from a web-development perspective.
Starboard
Site that sort of provides active JavaScript notebooks, with a view to doing most/all of the work on the client side. I was sort of hoping there'd be a self-host option or something and I'm not seeing that. On the other hand it could be a good tool for tinkering with and prototyping code.
Favicon generator
Very handy favicon generator. Covers all the useful bases.
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
Setting up a local web server on macOS 10… - Apple Community
Setting up a local web server, especially with php and serving from a user's home directory, on macOS.
Media Queries Level 5
Some detail on the CSS query that lets you detect of someone has their OS set to prefer dark mode rather than light.
Here’s what I didn’t know about “content” - Manuel Matuzović
Deepish dive into what the content property can do in CSS.
Pronoun Island
Nice idea for a way of including pronouns in profiles, etc.
A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.
Handy set of svg-based icons, ideal for websites and web-based apps.