Netscape Meteors(erynwells.me)
369 points by ingve | 108 comments
A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.
First screen, captured .
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Ghrc.io appears to be malicious(bmitch.net)
352 points by todsacerdoti | 58 comments
Blog post by Brandon Mitchell reporting that ghrc.io, a typo of GitHub's ghcr.io container registry, appears to steal GitHub credentials.
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering(alexharri.com)
1271 points by alexharri | 139 comments
Blog post by Alex Harri taking a deep dive into building an image-to-ASCII renderer, with interactive demos explaining why ASCII characters aren't pixels.
Why I love Laravel (2022)(ben.page)
43 points by bdlowery | 37 comments
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The browser's main thread is expensive(kciter.so)
408 points by kciter | 141 comments
A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.
Don't animate height(granola.ai)
436 points by birdculture | 252 comments
Granola engineering blog post explaining how a small CSS height animation caused high CPU/GPU usage and how to find and make animations cheaper.
The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial(developer.chrome.com)
110 points by andrewstuart | 54 comments
Chrome for Developers blog post introducing the HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial, which lets developers draw interactive DOM content into 2D canvas and WebGL/WebGPU textures.
A new PNG spec(programmax.net)
610 points by bluedel | 553 comments
A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.
JPEG Compression(sophielwang.com)
376 points by vinhnx | 102 comments
A personal blog post explaining how JPEG image compression works by exploiting human perceptual bias through a change of basis before encoding.
Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome(developer.chrome.com)
551 points by AshleysBrain | 368 comments
Chrome for Developers blog post announcing JPEG XL support in Chrome, using a new Rust-based decoder (jxl-rs), with notes on performance and the Interop Project.