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IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by Cloudflare
Any website can use a simple API to replace CAPTCHAs with our invisible alternative, whether they’re on the Cloudflare network or not.
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Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge
A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it.
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A new approach to text rendering
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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WebAssembly Tail Calls
This document explains the WebAssembly tail calls proposal and demonstrates it with some examples.
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I Won't Use Next.js
I've written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
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Default HTTPS access for Gmail
Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director In 2008, we rolled out the option to always use https — encrypting your mail as it trav...
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It’s OK to block ads (2015)
Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop most ads from appearing when you use websites or apps that would…
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Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM
Model-View-Intent is a unidirectional data flow architecture with Virtual DOM rendering for single-page web apps, similar to React and Flux but with plenty of surprising additions.
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An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership
Dear Jeff, Tim, and colleagues, In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” an API whose sole function was to provide a first-class role for DRM within the Web browser ecosystem. By doing so, the organization offered...
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Launching Ignition and TurboFan
V8 v5.9 comes with a brand-new JavaScript execution pipeline, built upon the Ignition interpreter and the TurboFan optimizing compiler.
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Maintaining Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Friday, March 20th, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
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React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our front end UI library
Visit the post for more.
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Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser
Brave Wallet is a secure crypto wallet, built right into the Brave privacy browser. No extension required.
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The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist
About to launch a new website? Make sure that you have covered all bases with this comprehensive checklist you can't be without.
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Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
Experience cutting-edge browser features in pre-release versions: Firefox Developer Edition, Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly. Download now!
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Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed
It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social media websites use algorithms to ut...
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WebKit: 3D Transforms
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS.
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Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
Security on the web matters. Whenever you connect to a web page and enter a password, a credit card number, or other sensitive information, you want to be sure ...
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The DuckDB Local UI
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.
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The Future of Htmx
In this essay, Carson Gross and Alex Petros discuss htmx's future direction and philosophy. They explain how the project aims to emulate jQuery's success through API stability, minimal feature additions, and quarterly releases while continuing to promote hypermedia-driven development and support the broader web…
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Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
We're thrilled to announce our first steps on the road to delivering an outstanding Thunderbird on Android experience.
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