A Web Renaissance Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we’re seeing an inc...
It's like Shazam — for your face! Today's most fun new Glitch app is Record Player, which lets you upload a photo, then uses Google Cloud's Vision API to recognize the image and play it on Sp...
task-specific browser UIs When Jason asked " Why are Safari and Sherlock two different applications? " it made me realize that what I want is a desktop application, similar to...
mac html control suckage You heard it here first: Internet Explorer for the Macintosh is the new Netscape 4. On a more substantive Macintosh web development note, we know that OS X s...
Blogging for Dollars Meg makes the arugment in Blogging for Dollars that the weblog world needs professionally paid webloggers in order to advance past the labor-of-love ghetto:...
Sooper RSS Day It’s super RSS/XML day today. The RSS 0.91 feed for this site has been back for a little while, and it’s augmented by two new feeds, the Village Voice Most...
blogger api I will just give you the links: PHP code to access the Google API . Incidentally, WSDL is amazing. And, in keeping with the programmer’s rule that lazin...
iframe RPC You should all know that Eric is a goddamned genius. His remote scripting system using javascript and iframes is just brilliant and, frankly, I resent him...
Robots Bookmarklet For Andre , the [Show Robots.txt](javascript:void(location.href='http://'%20+%20location.host%20+%20'/robots.txt')) bookmarklet . As Andre correctly pointed...
Just so I never have Just so I never have to go hunting for this again, a [View CSS](javascript:var%20mywin=window.open('','','location=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');var%20mydo...
I was looking back at I was looking back at my comments here on my blog and on the MetaFilter thread because of a few conversations with friends the past few days. So, I hacked...
Meg noticed more popups too, Meg noticed more popups too , which I had mentioned seeing a couple of weeks ago . Funny thing is, there are pretty easy ways to take care of these, although...
How come Pyra's homepage doesn't How come Pyra ‘s homepage doesn’t have a link back to Jezebel’s background tiles ?...
Or you can load some Or you can load [some of my bookmarks](javascript:void(_search=open(' /faves/explorer.htm','_search ')))....
Now that we've all decided Now that we’ve all decided (or had decided for us) that our websites will either be Yahoo portals or Amazon tab-tops, can we develop and debug a set of SSI, CG...
metadata in link titles Idea: Once broadband is more widespread, how about some javascript (or maybe a browser add-in) that adds meta-data to the tooltip on a link? Something like...
pull-down menus So the big innovation for today is the DHTML pull-down menus at the top of the page. They only work in Explorer, and while I hate browser-specific enhancem...