You might not need Redis(viblo.se)

177 points by jcartw 1 year ago | 113 comments

An America-Less Internet(nthbrock.com)

70 points by nthbrock 3 years ago | 63 comments

Random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings(lemire.me)

39 points by adunk 3 years ago | 51 comments

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.

Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server(blog.habets.se)

444 points by guntars 1 year ago | 138 comments

Blog post describing building an HTTPS web server in Rust using io_uring and kernel TLS to avoid system calls on the request path.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?(disassociated.com)

588 points by gnabgib 11 months ago | 353 comments

A blog post from disassociated arguing that personal blogs have made a comeback and asking whether niche, topic-focused blogs should return too.

Browsers situationship: When browsers agree but the spec doesn't(atbrakhi.dev)

9 points by cpeterso 1 month ago | 3 comments

A blog post by atbrakhi about cases where browser implementations agree with each other but diverge from the web specification.

Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option(recyclebin.zip)

659 points by gepeto42 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Guillaume Ross arguing that email magic login links are useful but should not be the only sign-in option, responding to 404 Media's defense of them.

API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS(jviide.iki.fi)

584 points by oherrala 2 years ago | 252 comments

Blog post arguing that APIs should fail visibly on plain HTTP requests instead of redirecting to HTTPS, noting many major API providers don't.

Substack writers, you need a website(elizabethtai.com)

611 points by speckx 3 months ago | 319 comments

Blog post by Elizabeth Tai arguing that Substack writers should maintain their own independent websites rather than relying solely on the platform.

It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts(blog.pabloecortez.com)

1121 points by speckx 1 year ago | 500 comments

Personal blog post arguing that publishing AI-generated blog posts is rude to readers and urging people to write in their own words.