CSS text-fit property, background-clip border-area, Focusgroup, and more.

A history of internet web browsers on personal digital assistant devices and operating systems, including EPOC, Apple Newton, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile (Pocket PC). From small, bespoke browsers with unique features to large mainstream browsers with PDA presence.

Learn about new out-of-order streaming capabilities and the renewed HTML insertion and streaming methods available for testing from Chrome 148

See and shape what’s next for Firefox.

I don’t click share buttons. I never have. When I find something worth sharing, I tap the share icon in Chrome on my phone. That’s it. On my desktop I click the little link icon in Arc&…

feed-repeat is a small tool that selects old posts from RSS/Atom feeds you configure and puts them into a new Atom feed. Use it with your feed reader for a spaced-repetition-like experience for blog posts. See the announcement post for the motivation behind it, and more details. I just released v1.1 of feed-repeat. This release brings some great new features, and improves the security and performance. The biggest highlight: **you can now run feed-repeat entirely on GitHub** , no server needed! The repo now includes a GitHub Actions workflow that runs feed-repeat daily, and publishes the generated feeds to GitHub Pages. Getting started is simple: fork the repo, edit `config.yaml` with your source feeds, enable the workflow, enable GitHub Pages, and subscribe to the generated feeds in your feed reader. That’s it! The documentation has the full step-by-step guide. **Passthrough of new entries** : The new `passthroughNewEntries` option passes new entries from a source feed directly to the output feed, turning it into a combined feed of old repeats and new content, so that you can subscribe to only one feed for both old and new posts. **Authenticated feeds** : URL credentials in source feeds (e.g., `https://token@host/feed`) were previously stripped before sending the HTTP request, breaking authentication for password-protected feeds. This is now fixed — the original URL is preserved as-is, enabling feed-repeat to subscribe to private feeds. **SSRF protection** : feed-repeat now validates DNS resolution and IP ranges before connecting to source feed URLs, preventing server-side request forgery attacks. **Persistent conditional fetches** : `ETag` and `Last-Modified` headers from source feeds are now persisted to the cache between runs. This means feed-repeat only downloads a feed when it has actually changed, reducing bandwidth and processing time, and load on feed servers. **Other notable changes** : The HTTP retry for 5xx errors was fixed — they are now properly retried with exponential backoff. feed-repeat now also handles HTTP 429 responses gracefully, redacts credentials from all log output, deduplicates source feed fetches across tasks, uses per-task cache files (migrated automatically), and supports a configurable `User-Agent` via `--user-agent`. **Minimum GHC version bumped** : feed-repeat now requires GHC 9.10+, dropping support for GHC 9.6 and 9.8. See the full changelog for all the details. If you have any questions or comments, please leave a comment below. If you liked this post, please share it. Thanks for reading!

When implementing Dark Mode and ways to toggle it, developers currently need to duplicate code and roll their own toggle implementation. What if, instead, browsers would take care of all that?

IndieWebClub Bangalore: Special Edition Meetup, Behind the Scenes

Forcing myself to listen to full albums made me burn out on discovering new music. Now I’m changing my listening habits to focus more on singles and self-curated playlists.

Personal blog and website of Ankur Sethi, reader, writer, and frontend engineer living in Bangalore, India.

Personal blog and website of Ankur Sethi, reader, writer, and frontend engineer living in Bangalore, India.

Modern PKM apps allow me to collect vast quantities of information. The downside is they're not good at resurfacing what I've already captured.

Advice on how to defer your most precious dream forever.

Repurposing my programming workspace for creative writing by changing my pre-work ritual instead of my physical space.

I have an adversarial relationship with my digital devices and modern technology. Here is how I minimize the harms while reaping the benefits.

Social media violates my psychological sovereignty, strips me of my freedom to direct my attention mindfully, and forces me to engage with information I do not want to engage with.

When you focus on outcomes, you deprive yourself of the pleasures of doing the work.

In which I realize how bad web search really is and develop compassion for people who turn to ChatGPT for information.