Just wanted to point you all to Wayne Larsen's alternate interface to Hackernews, called hckr news. I really like the clean and fast interface, compared to the everlasting old interface on the original page (even though you can of course use User CSS to pep it up a little). Wayne also created browser extensions that [...]

You currently can't subscribe to an authenticated feed (for example in Basecamp) in Google Reader. If you want to do it nonetheless you can use this script of mine which will talk to the server that needs authentication, passing through all the headers (so that also cookies and "not modified" requests will come through): download [...]

I have added a feature to the HN Collapsible Threads bookmarklet that enables you to close a whole thread from any point within the thread: This is useful when you are reading a thread and decided that you are having enough of it and want to move on to the next thread. Before you had [...]

I have been picking up and developing a fork of Grant Heaslip's Safari extension URL clenser which removes all sorts of un-necessary junk for the URL so that you can easily pass on a clean URL to someone else. Things being removed include: Google Analytics parameters (utm_source=, utm_medium, etc.) Youtube related parameters (feature=) Partner tracking [...]

There is some back and forth by John Gruber and others, about HTML <title> tags, with Gruber complaining (and rightly so) that for SEO reasons the titles are filled up with junk having little to do with the real page content. The writers of cam.ly suggest to use the SEO title in the HTML and [...]

I enjoy consuming and participating at Hacker News by Y Combinator resp. Paul Graham. One thing that needs improvement is the reading comments there. At times it happens that the first comment develops into a huge thread, and then the second top-level comment (which might also be well worth reading) disappears somewhere down into the [...]

Steve Souders has recently released something like a sequel to his previous book "High Performance Web Sites" (HPWS) which I have already reviewed earlier. With Even Faster Web Sites he and his co-authors (specialists in their fields, such as Doug Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts) on Javascript) elaborate on some of the rules Steve postulated [...]

Just a quick post, because what I read at Joshua Porter's blog somewhat alarms me: Facebook’s Brilliant but Evil design. I feel more and more reassured at why I don't use Facebook and have a bad feeling about them. The gist is this: when you buy something at a participating web site (Ethan Zuckerman shows [...]

I have been attending this year's Future of Web Apps Expo in London's ExCeL centre. There were a ton of interesting speakers and I enjoyed listening a lot. Amongst others there were Steve Souders of Yahoo (High Performance Web Sites), Paul Graham of Y Combinator (The future of web startups), Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.com (The [...]

I'd like to introduce you to this great book by Steve Souders. There already have been several reports on the Internet about it, for example on the Yahoo Developers Blog. There is also a video of Steve Souders talking about the book. The book is structured into 14 rules, which, when applied properly, can vastly [...]

Webkit, the rendering Toolkit that powers Apple's Safari web browser, is getting a lot of love lately (iPhone, Windows beta version). But for developers it was always hard to debug and inspect your web applications running in Safari. With Drosera a decent debugger exists since June 2006 (for Webkit only so far, though — it's [...]