Blog

Longer-form blog posts. Always hand-crafted.

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2026
hyper User Survey 2025 Results
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2025 in review
2025
reqwest v0.13 - rustls by default
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hyper-util Composable Pools
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hyper User Survey 2025
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Podcast: Netstack.fm, story of Rust's networking with hyper
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hyper HTTP/2 (Didn't) MadeYouReset
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warp v0.4
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reqwest retries
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Body::poll_progress
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A More Modular reqwest
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2024 in review
2024
hyper Roadmap 2025
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hyper in curl Needs a Champion
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hyper HTTP/2 Continuation Flood
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Podcast: Rustacean Station, hyper 1.0, and independent maintainership
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reqwest v0.12
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2023 in review
2023
hyper v1
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hyper HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack: Unaffected
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Was async fn a mistake?
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I'm an independent open source maintainer
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Report on Surprise hyper CVE from 2023-04-11
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This Month in hyper: March 2023
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This Month in hyper: February 2023
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hyper-ish 2022 in review
2022
This Month in hyper: November 2022
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hyper Polish Period
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This Month in hyper: October 2022
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hyper v1.0.0-rc.1
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This Month in hyper: September 2022
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curl-up 2022: hyper in curl
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This Month in hyper: August 2022
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Pattern Matching and Backwards Compatibility
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hyper at 10,000 stars
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This Month in hyper: July 2022
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hyper 1.0 roadmap
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Help stabilize hyper in curl
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hyper’s Vision
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hyper 1.0 timeline
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hyper-ish 2021 in review
2021
Podcast: hyper on the Rustacean Station
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How using hyper in curl can help make the internet safer
2020
hyper v0.14
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Next Up: AWS
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warp v0.2
2019
reqwest v0.10
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hyper v0.13
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http v0.2
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reqwest alpha.await
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hyper alpha supports async/await
2018
warp v0.1.10
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warp
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Better HTTP Upgrades with hyper
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hyper v0.12
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HTTP upgrades with hyper
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Recently, for a Rusty Web
2017
Bye Mozilla, Hello Buoyant
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hyper v0.11
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hyper security vulnerability: message splitting
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A hyper update
2016
reqwest v0.2
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Introducing Reqwest
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RustConf 2016
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async hyper
2015
httparse v1.0
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hyper v0.6.8 - Socket Timeouts
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What’s the password?
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hyper v0.6
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merit badge
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hyper on beta
2014
hyper
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mocha-text-cov
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Firefox Accounts OAuth Explorations
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Please Replace Credit Cards
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Your Password is Insecure
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Persona is dead, long live Persona
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intel v0.5
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Symbols in nodejs
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syslogger
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intel 0.4
2013
client-sessions v0.5
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insist: Better assertions for nodejs
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Tally
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www.persona.org
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hood
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A beginners guide to Star Wars books
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client-sessions v0.4.0
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dbug v0.1
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intel 0.3
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How LucasArts Fell Apart
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intel 0.2
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intel
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Gmail Bridge for Persona
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Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users
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console.log() all the things!
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Persona Beta 2
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Information Obsession
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splatmonstar 0.3
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An Introduction to Persona
2012
Levels of boiling
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tentmonstar for Android
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Crappy Computers
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Touching Your Computer
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Machete Order
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Tent.io
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Persona Beta 1
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Python Closure Gotcha
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Platform Integration of Persona
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Object.observe
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Nice Try, App.net
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Moved to Identity
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At Our Best
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John Carter
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Social Lock-in
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Shipyard 0.2
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How is lock-in good for anyone besides the owner?
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Two Universes
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Firefox for Windows on ARM
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Lasting Value
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Shipyard 0.1
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Social isn't a Product
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Add-on Builder 1.0
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The Shipyard Mindset
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What Are PCs?
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Users Are Not Worried about iOS Restrictions
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Cross Device Jabbering
2011
Or: Competition is Good
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Past Month of Shipyard
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The difference between Chrome and Firefox
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var that = this
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Programming on an iPad
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JavaScript Module Syntaxes
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Getting Stuck
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The iPad Needs Competition
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What is Shipyard?
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WorkFlowy
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Redesigning the Browser Window
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Good Things Come to Those Who Ask
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Bored People Quit
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BrowserID
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Hashbangs are forever
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Why I pick Python over JavaScript
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Chromebook
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Samsung Galaxy S II
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Boolean Arguments
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Cutting That Cord
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Universal Communicator
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Work and Play Devices
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Business, Design, and Engineering
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Function.kwargs
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Fixing the Galaxy S File System
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Twitter, Reblog, and Email Comments
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URL Design
2010
Understanding Your Battery
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Chrome OS for Personal Use
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Chrome Crankshaft
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nexus s
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What is Dependency Injection?
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Why Object.prototype is not the place for Hash methods
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No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.
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Choice vs Suck It Up
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MVC in MooTools: Controllers
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What we can learn from procrastination
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Why is getElementsByTagName() faster than querySelectorAll()?
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The Galaxy in Review
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The TIE Fighter Pilot Who Saved The Day in 'Star Wars'
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MVC in MooTools: Views
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The Omnibox
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MVC in MooTools: Models
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Read Your Own [Work]
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"Send To" is Easy in Android
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Corporate Blogs: Front Page Structure
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PHP Error Suppression Performance
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How I Name Boolean Variables
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Too Many Social Networks
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Helpful Errors Messages Are Important
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Writing Testable JavaScript
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Simple JavaScript Function To Include CSS
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The Problem With 'Above Average Programmers'
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MooTools Drag.Ghost
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Fixing HTML5 Loaded Via Ajax in IE
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Understanding JavaScript Prototypes
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Is it Now Acceptable to Require JavaScript?
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Hardware Accelerated Canvas on IE9
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How to Set Up OpenID on Your Own Domain
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Samsung Galaxy S on T-Mobile
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MooTools - Setting Up Elements
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At Least Pad the Default Button Styles
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Making an Ajax Single-page Site with MooTools
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IE Opacity Ignores Positioned Children
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Enthusiasm Starts at the Top
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Saftey Cap: Slide to Delete
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The Relevance of SEO
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MooTools: A Better Way to Use Elements
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A Less-Random Generator
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Iterating Global Variables in Internet Explorer
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MGFX.Tabs 1.2.0 - Show a Random Tab
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Make the DOM Update Faster
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Import * Considered Harmful
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Get the Method Caller in MooTools
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3 Tips When Switching to Python
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Tablets Will Replace Everything
2009
Hacking To Meet Deadlines
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MGFX in the MooTools Forge
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Closures Break my For's
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Extending Django Models, Managers, And QuerySets
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MGFX.Tabs 1.1 on Github
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Select Tags in IE: innerHTML
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Fade and Destroy Elements
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Exploring Javascript Date Math
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Week Period of a Given Date
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You Don't Always Need Identity Operators
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Protected Methods in MooTools Classes
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Web Developers Are Stupid
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One-Time Custom MooTools Events
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Simple Templating with MooTools Substitute
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One Time Events: Already Fired?
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I'm a Twitter Monstar
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4 Ways Functions Mess With this
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Random String Generation with Symbols
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Requiring Login to CakePHP Admin
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A Basic Lesson in Password Hashing
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Automagic Prefixes for Model Fields
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Copy Objects and Arrays with $unlink
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Form Accessibility - Try Out Your Own
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Universal IE6 Stylesheet: A Step Backwards
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Get Class of a MooTools Instance
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Use CSS Borders for 3D Effects
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Don't Use the DOM to Insert Flash
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Tables vs CSS? Really?
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When Are CSS Frameworks Good
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Rich Text Editor in Mootools
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Try end() next() time
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Palindromic Word: Answer
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Make Draggable Items Dockable
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Making Objects in an Array Unique
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Getting Private Variables in a Mootools Class
2008
Guard and Default Operators of JavaScript
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Overloading Objects in PHP
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PuTTY Connection Manager
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Tooltip Image with Mootools
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Javascript Canvas Tutorial: Make Breakout
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ArrayAccess Interface in PHP
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Cross-browser addEvent without Frameworks
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Making a Toggle All Checkbox
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Make YUI's Editor More Pluggable
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Pluggable Mootools Tabs
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SproutCore - Standards Stupid?
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Preparing SQL Queries
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Image Replacement and Backgrounds
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Semantic Mark-up
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Web Standards in Layman's Terms