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You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we're extending Cloudflare Workers with support for WebAssembly. All Workers customers can now augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost.
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37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé
I was an A/B test skeptic. Maybe we don’t want to be second-guessed. Maybe we don’t want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Designers are taught—explicitly and implicitly—to follow certain visual rules and the final design will work great. The whole A/B testing concept probably …
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Mozilla and Xiph's new Daala video codec to compete with h.265
Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology. The effort is a collaboration between Mozilla Foundation, Xiph.Org Foundation and other contributors.
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Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs
Learning modern JavaScript is tough if you haven’t been there since the beginning. The ecosystem is growing and changing so rapidly that…
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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A History of HTML (1998)
The events and circumstances that led to the World Wide Web's current popularity
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Read files in JavaScript | Articles
How to select files, read file metadata and content, and monitor read progress.
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Why ContentEditable is Terrible
Or: How the Medium Editor Works
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How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
Today we’ll be looking at how to connect the protocols powering Mastodon in the simplest way possible to enter the federated network. We will use static files, standard command-line tools, and some simple Ruby scripting, although the functionality should be easily adaptable to other programming languages. First…
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Get started with Web Bundles | Web Platform
Web Bundles enable you to share websites as a single file over Bluetooth and run them offline in your origin's context.
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Vivaldi browser and open-source
People who are involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t available under a unified open-source license. Here we explain why.
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Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center
*Feb. 13 update: I posted more details about Directory Tiles here.* We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make ...
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Classifying the Internet of Things
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
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privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
For more information about this, have a look at David Baron's post, the bug and the post on the security blog. For many years the CSS :visited selector has been ...
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Tracking Prevention Policy
This document describes the web tracking practices that WebKit believes, as a matter of policy, should be prevented by default by web browsers.
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Bard and new AI features in Search
Introducing Bard (now Gemini), Google's conversational AI service — plus, new AI features in Search.
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Postgres WASM
We're open sourcing postgres-wasm, a PostgresQL server that runs inside a browser, with our friends at Snaplet.
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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.
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Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of…
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Moving from React to htmx
David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of…
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Firefox exploit found in the wild
Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded ...
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Django 1.6 released
The latest official version is 6.1.3
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Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
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Announcing AMP Real URL
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.
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WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
Pending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.
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HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination
In this essay, Carson Gross explores HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), explaining how it enables REST APIs through hypermedia responses and contrasting it with modern JSON-based APIs. Using clear HTML examples, Carson demonstrates how HATEOAS allows clients to discover available actions…