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Senior Full Stack Web Dev

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

It’s square, it has a checkmark inside, and its distinguishing feature is that you can select any number of them at the same time: Different operating systems rendered them differently during their evolution: macOS Sonoma (2023)OS X Mavericks (2013)OS X Leopard (2007)Mac OS 9 (1999)Mac OS 7.
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Egoless Engineering

Like many of you, I was raised in the background radiation of Calvinist thought. I expected little but redemptive hard labor, before presumably one day dying in a mine. I also read Hackers & Painters at an impressionable age and was kind of a jerk about it for a while.
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In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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Egoless Engineering

It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.
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ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

This is an open list of web crawlers associated with AI companies and the training of LLMs to block. We encourage you to contribute to and implement this list on your own site.
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ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

A list of AI agents and robots to block
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Cheap email for everyone

Cheap, no-nonsense email Let's get straight to the point: We host your email address. We're IMAP and POP3 compatible, so we work with most mail apps. No arbitrary limits. Have as many users and store as much mail as you want. Bring as many of your own domains as you want, or use one of ours.
Tags: #tools
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Cheap email for everyone

Tags: #tools
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HTML loves text. We can get some huge text with <h1></h1>.

Some text is <pre></pre>-formatted. Just a different look. We can make a list with <ul></ul> and some <li></li>s Or a numbered list with <ol></ol> and some <li></li>s Or even a description list with <dl></dl>. It holds description terms, <dt></dt> and description definitions, <dd></dd>.
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rany2/edge-tts

edge-tts is a Python module that allows you to use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service from within your Python code or using the provided edge-tts or edge-playback command.
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rany2/edge-tts

Use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service from Python WITHOUT needing Microsoft Edge or Windows or an API key - rany2/edge-tts
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Apache Kvrocks™

Skip to main content Apache Kvrocks™ A distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.
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Apache Kvrocks™

Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.
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Unraveling the Magic of Composition over Inheritance | by Robin Ingelbrecht

“Composition over inheritance” is a principle in programming that emphasizes the use of object composition instead of class inheritance to achieve code maintainability. While inheritance can be useful in certain scenarios, it can also lead to tight coupling and inflexible designs.
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Unraveling the Magic of Composition over Inheritance | by Robin Ingelbrecht | Medium

“Composition over inheritance” is a principle in programming that emphasizes the use of object composition instead of class inheritance to achieve code maintainability. While inheritance can be…
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lwthiker/curl-impersonate

A special build of curl that can impersonate the four major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox. curl-impersonate is able to perform TLS and HTTP handshakes that are identical to that of a real browser.
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lwthiker/curl-impersonate

curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox - lwthiker/curl-impersonate
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21st.dev – The NPM for Design Engineers

Ship polished UIs faster with React Tailwind components inspired by shadcn/ui. Built by design engineers, for design engineers. One command to install.
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21st.dev – The NPM for Design Engineers

Ship polished UIs faster with ready-to-use React Tailwind components inspired by shadcn/ui.
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FFmpeg By Example

FFmpeg By Example is a documentation website to showcase all the unique and different ways to use FFmpeg. Got a cool idea to share with the community? Send your contribution here! ffmpeg -v quiet -f data -i input.
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FFmpeg By Example

Explore the depth of FFmpeg with Examples
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Larasense - Home

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Larasense - Home

Stay updated on Laravel news, trends, and updates with curated content from top blogs, YouTube, and podcasts—all in a sleek, user-friendly design.
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campsite/campsite

This is an open source version of the Campsite app. This codebase is available as-is and is not actively maintained by the Campsite team. We will only consider pull requests and issues regarding self-hosting or critical fixes.
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campsite/campsite

The Campsite monorepo
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cerbero90/enum

Zero-dependencies PHP library to supercharge enum functionalities. We can check whether an enum includes some names or values. Pure enums check for names, whilst backed enums check for values:
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cerbero90/enum

🎲 Zero-dependencies package to supercharge enum functionalities. - cerbero90/enum
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs.
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and trusted TLS/SSL certificates for any .MOBI domain. This resulted in significant Internet-wide change, with Google petitioning the CAB Forum to wholly sunset the use of WHOIS for ownership validation when issuing CA-sig
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TubePen - Video Highlighting and Annotation Simplified

Highlight and write notes on your favourite video transcriptions. Don't forget what you've learned
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TubePen - Video Highlighting and Annotation Simplified

Learn faster and better from YouTube videos - highlight, annotate, save time with AI-powered summaries, retain more with AI-powered quizzes
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Cursor Rule Maker

Create custom cursor instructions from your tech stack
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Cursor Rule Maker

Generate custom cursor instructions from your tech stack
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browserbase/stagehand: An AI web browsing framework focused on simplicity a

An AI web browsing framework focused on simplicity and extensibility. is currently available as an early release, and we're actively seeking feedback from the community. Please join our Slack community to stay updated on the latest developments and provide feedback.
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Laid Off for the First Time In My Career, and Twice In One Year

So, I got laid off again… This time it was the week before Christmas, last time it was a week into paternity leave. Both great timing, I know.
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The future of htmx

For developers who are not familiar with it, jQuery is a venerable JavaScript library that made writing cross-platform JavaScript a lot easier during a time when browser implementations were very inconsistent, and JavaScript didn’t have many of the convenient APIs and features that it does now.
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The future of htmx

In this essay, Carson Gross and Alex Petros discuss htmx's future direction and philosophy. They explain how the project aims to emulate jQuery's success through API stability, minimal feature additions, and quarterly releases while continuing to promote hypermedia-driven development and support the broader web development ecosystem.
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How I program with LLMs

This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them.
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How I program with LLMs

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Laravel Joins Explained: Clear Guide with Practical Examples

Joins are a powerful tool in Laravel's query builder that let you combine data from multiple database tables. Whether you're building a simple query or something more complex, Laravel makes it easy.
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Laravel Joins Explained: Clear Guide with Practical Examples

Combine data from multiple tables in Laravel using different join types like inner, left, right, and advanced joins with practical examples.
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Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"

Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them. This week, I have finished reading the first book - and shared all of the 21 chapter summaries in the channel.
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Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"

Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them.This week, I have finished reading the first book - “A Philosophy of So
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Draw all roads in any city at once

This website allows you to select a city and then draws every single road on a screen.
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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

Ho, ho, ho, hope you’ve brought an appetite for destruction, because we’ve got some choice cuts for you this holiday season.
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The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024

Ho, ho, ho, hope you’ve brought an appetite for destruction, because we’ve got some choice cuts for you this holiday season. Among the books being tarred and feathered in the town squar…
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Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team

Nadia Odunayo has been so often the smiling face on the door of this event, but did you know she’s the founder and (more impressively!) one woman development team behind The StoryGraph, a reading community of over a million book lovers.
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Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team

The story of the The StoryGraph with graphs
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Off the Beaten Path to Upgrade Symfony 2.8 to 7.2 | Tomas Votruba

There are two types of upgrades. One follows only UPGRADE.md files on every release, replacing what has been removed with new alternatives. It works, and we could say that the codebase will be "up-to-date."
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Off the Beaten Path to Upgrade Symfony 2.8 to 7.2 | Tomas Votruba

There are two types of upgrades. One follows only `UPGRADE.md` files on every release, replacing what has been removed with new alternatives. It works, and we could say that the codebase will be "up-to-date." The other upgrade doesn't stop at the required minimum but **makes use of all modern features the framework provides**. It will be faster, easier to understand, and easier to upgrade to the next version. I [wrote a post](/blog/two-kinds-of-legacy-code-upgrade) that explains why the latter is better. There are no sources about Symfony upgrades spanning multiple major versions—time to fix that.
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Design Token-Based UI Architecture

Design tokens are design decisions as data and serve as a single source of truth for design and engineering. Utilizing deployment pipelines, they enable automated code generation across platforms, allowing for faster updates and improved consistency in design.
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Design Token-Based UI Architecture

Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation
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vercel/fun

Local serverless function λ development runtime.
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vercel/fun

ƒun - Local serverless function λ development runtime - vercel/fun
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How Autoload made PHP elegant. Discover how autoloading has… | by Julien SC

PHP has undergone significant changes since its early versions, and one of the most impactful features is the autoloading mechanism. This feature has transformed the way developers organize and manage their code, reducing clutter and enhancing efficiency.
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How Autoload made PHP elegant. Discover how autoloading has… | by Julien SCHMITT | Oct, 2024 | Dev G

PHP has undergone significant changes since its early versions, and one of the most impactful features is the autoloading mechanism. This feature has transformed the way developers organize and…
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16 libri per dev da regalare e regalarvi per Natale

Perchè dovrei leggere libri per dev quando imparo meglio con i video di Tiktok o youtube che tra un capitolo e l’altro mi propongono video di modelle o i goal di Cristiano Ronaldo? Il vostro cervello reagisce in maniera diversa, sappiatelo.
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16 libri per dev da regalare e regalarvi per Natale

Scopri i 10 libri per dev consigliati da poter regalare e da regalarvi per Natale, così da approfondire e conoscere nuovi argomenti.
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From where I left

I’m not the kind of person that develops a strong attachment to their own work. When I decided to leave Redis, about 1620 days ago (~ 4.44 years), I never looked at the source code, commit messages, or anything related to Redis again.
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From where I left

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Avoid Common Mistakes while using hooks in React

This is my first story on any frontend stack, as I am currently going through a learning course, so thought of sharing a few concepts as I learn. Today, we are diving into the world of React Hooks — a game-changing feature introduced in React 16.
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Avoid Common Mistakes while using hooks in React

This is my first story on any frontend stack, as I am currently going through a learning course, so thought of sharing a few concepts as I learn. Today, we are diving into the world of React Hooks —…
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A Builder's Guide to Evals for LLM-based Applications

Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
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delight-im/PHP-Auth

Authentication for PHP. Simple, lightweight and secure. Written once, to be used everywhere.
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delight-im/PHP-Auth

Authentication for PHP. Simple, lightweight and secure. - delight-im/PHP-Auth
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

One of my all-time favourite CSS tricks is using backdrop-filter: blur() to create a frosted glass effect. I use it in just about every project I work on, including this blog! This effect helps us add depth and realism to our projects. It’s lovely.
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
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Every UUID

A searchable list of every UUID v4 - scroll till you find a new favorite.
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Every UUID

A searchable list of every UUID v4 - scroll till you find a new favorite.
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Unsolicited advice to my younger designer self

What I wish I’d known starting out as a designer in big tech. Last summer was my 3rd year working as a product designer in Microsoft.
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Unsolicited advice to my younger designer self - Microsoft Design - Medium

Last summer was my 3rd year working as a product designer in Microsoft. Before Microsoft, I worked as a graphic designer across a variety of different companies and thus, came in with some…
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The action pattern : r/PHP

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The action pattern : r/PHP

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The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

After spending the last few years embedded in AI-assisted development, I've noticed a fascinating pattern. While engineers report being dramatically more productive with AI, the actual software we use daily doesn’t seem like it’s getting noticeably better. What's going on here?
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The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations
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7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025

I’ve been running databases-as-a-service for a long time, and there are always new things to keep abreast of - new technologies, different ways of solving problems, not to mention all the research coming out of universities.
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7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025

7 databases to explore in 2025.
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outerbase/studio

LibSQL Studio is a fully-featured, lightweight GUI client for managing SQLite-based databases like Turso, LibSQL, and rqlite. It runs entirely in your browser, so there's no need to download anything. The features mentioned above are just a few of the many we offer.
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outerbase/studio

A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. - outerbase/studio
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Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here!

LiveView 1.0.0 is out! This 1.0 milestone comes six years after the first LiveView commit.
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Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here!

LiveView 1.0 is out!
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Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching

As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of https://aws-news.com‘s busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very effective caching. This resulted in significantly reduced backend load and a much faster frontend.
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Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching

As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of AWS News’ busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very efficient caching. This re…
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Facebook's Little Red Book

In 2012, Facebook was facing a challenge as it hit a billion users: rapid scaling was outpacing their ability to maintain focus on the big picture. Narratives became fragmented, and with them, the essence of what tied the company to Zuckerberg's vision began to fade.
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Facebook's Little Red Book

Creating a better digital version
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steel-dev/steel-browser

The open-source browser API for AI agents & apps. The best way to build live web agents and browser automation tools. Steel.dev is an open-source browser API that makes it easy to build AI apps and agents that interact with the web.
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steel-dev/steel-browser

🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents &amp; Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser instance that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure. - steel-dev/steel-br...
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New in Symfony 7.2: Stateless CSRF (Symfony Blog)

The stateless_token_ids option is one of the parts that make the stateless CSRF feature as safe as the traditional CSRF feature, because it explicitly lists the token IDs allowed when using the new feature. First, the source of the request is validated using the Origin/Referer HTTP headers.
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New in Symfony 7.2: Stateless CSRF (Symfony Blog)

Symfony 7.2 introduces stateless CSRF protection, enabling secure token validation without relying on server-side sessions.
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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - Interaction Magic

Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let's hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous "2x2 decorated slope" is a LEGO minifigure's interface to the world.
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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - Interaction Magic

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
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A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support • Josh W. Comeau

According to caniuse, container queries are supported for almost 93% of users(opens in new tab) (as of November 2024). That sounds pretty good! My mom would have been thrilled if I came home with 93% on my report card.
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A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support • Josh W. Comeau

Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but is that sufficient? Where do we draw the line? In this blog post, I’ll share the framework I use for deciding whether or not to use a modern CSS feature
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