Stories by Twixes

DeskHog – A Developer Toy

Polywork Shuts Down

God Mode

Breaking Bad News

Extreme UI Adaptability – How Google Earth supports every use case on Earth

History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

Show HN: Backname.io – every IP address gets its own domain

The Discovery of Copper

There's No Such Thing as Plain Text (2022) [video]

Ryanair's 3 Learjets

How to Read an S-1

Error-Message Guidelines

Why Britain doesn’t build

The Origin Private Filesystem

Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture

Floating-point arithmetic – all you need to know, explained interactively

Annoying A/B testing mistakes

Don't use custom CSS scrollbars

Email addresses are not primary user identities