NoCoin
web.dev
NoCoin | web.dev | |
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3 | 148 | |
1,590 | 3,547 | |
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0.3 | 9.0 | |
over 3 years ago | about 2 months ago | |
JavaScript | Nunjucks | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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NoCoin
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Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built?
My most impactful project was definitely NoCoin [0], the first web miner blocker. Back when Monero miners started appearing and sneakily mining on pages, like The Pirate Bay for example, I decided to throw together a browser extension that would simply block requests to the resources that hosted these mining scripts. The project was in no way a technical achievement, it was simply intercepting requests and blocking them based on a list. I could have very well added the resources to some other project like uBlock origin. But it got traction, ended up in the press (WIRED, Motherboard, Gizmodo) and ultimately started being integrated within browsers (Opera was first) and most of the popular ad blockers. The project lost its relevance as everyone else was doing it better and maintaining the list of blocked resources was too time consuming for me. Nevertheless, the goal was achieved, which was to "get rid" of crypto mining on the web. The mission got carried by bigger actors, which brings me more satisfaction than the popularity of the project.
Another impactful project of mine was also a browser extension. Internal tool that started as a lunch time project to make my team's life easier. Can't go in detail on that one, but basically they liked it and start suggesting improvements. So did a department that was working with us. And bit by bit, it became a really useful tool that became standard in these departments. Last I heard, the tool is now deployed company-wide. Crazy to think it started just from some lunch time hacking :-)
[0] https://github.com/keraf/NoCoin
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Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change.
Which in of itself is not a huge dealbreaker since the code is open source and can be found Here, unfortunately after reading their GitHub they are no longer supporting the extension (which makes sense since browsers can stop most mining activity nowadays)
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me_irl
Genuine tip, lots of those sites use your computer to mine bitcoin. If you download a browser extension like No Coin, the videos load a lot faster. Can't verify it for every site, but when it works, it works.
web.dev
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Building a realtime chat app with Next.js and Vercel
Before we start creating pages in our application, it's important to understand how Next.js renders content. The framework supports multiple rendering methods including server-side rendering (SSR), static site rendering (SSG), and client-side rendering (CSR). There are many pros and cons to each rendering method (too many to cover in this post) so if these concepts are new to you, Google’s web.dev site has a very good introduction to rendering on the web that can help you understand rendering options.
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Navigating the Waters of Core Web Vitals in 2024
The lifecycle of an interaction. Source: web.dev
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How hard has code splitting been in your experience?
Probably not, it's the CSS used so far, so if there are elements you've not interacted with, that's an issue. This web.dev article gives some tools you can use https://web.dev/articles/extract-critical-css
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Google have removed RSS support from their developer blogs
I noticed the same for Google's site https://web.dev/
The last article pushed to the feed was "Changes to the web.dev infrastructure" few months ago https://web.dev/blog/webdev-migration
The feed still there but with no updates https://web.dev/feed.xml and on the site you can see new articles published.
Is sad that on a infrastructure revamp of a modern site, the RSS feed was left out of the features list (at least for now).
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How do websites have a prompt on unsupported browsers?
Upon testing on Firefox and Mi Browser, there was no triggering of the BeforeInstallPrompt event, as expected. However, I noticed that web.dev manages to display a prompt on these browsers, even though they theoretically lack support for the BeforeInstallPrompt event.
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StackOverflow alternatives for web developers
web.dev, maintained by Google, including posts by Chrome developers and their co-workers,
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Progressive vs. Incremental Rendering/(Re)Hydration
In a old web.dev articleI came across the word "Incremental (Re)Hydration" which is linked to a Glimmer.js-Blog post (also called "Incremental Rendering" there) confuses me. Is Incremental (Re)Hydration the same as Progressive (Re)Hydration? Reading the Glimmer-Blog article it seems so, but in the web.devarticle it seems to be something different.
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Staying up to date with the industry with newsletters
Web.dev newsletter - though it's not a weekly newsletter and it's only content from web.dev (though really high quality content)
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Is it possible to get into coding at 21 with no qualifications self taught?
Just open up a text edi web developers are self-taught. a website. That's what I did. Some people like this: https://web.dev
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