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by David Heinemeier Hansson
The O'Saasy License
One of my favorite parts of the early web was how easy it was to see how the front-end was built. Before View Source was ruined by minification, transpiling, and bundling, you really could just right-click on any web page and learn how it was all done.
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~1 minutes (1K characters)
Release date
Dec 16, 2025