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Open Sans, how do we love thee?
If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ve noticed that we recently adopted Open Sans as our default typeface across WordPress.com. Type wonks know that Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface. I…
Diving into AngularJS
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
How to add Two-Factor Authentication to your website with Google Authenticator
Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your Website with Google Authenticator and Twilio SMS
Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22
This is the first in a series of posts published on or about the time a new Firefox version graduates from 'Nightly' status and becomes Firefox Aurora. We think that ...
An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime
Pushpin makes it easy to create HTTP long-polling, HTTP streaming, and WebSocket services using any web stack as the backend. It’s compatible with any framew...
Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project
WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful desig...
Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
Hi. I'm Adam Wiggins, cofounder and CTO of Heroku. Heroku has been my life’s work. Millions of apps depend on us, and I take that responsibility very...
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
Mozilla’s mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we’re supporting this mission by experimenting with what’s n
Django 1.5.1 released
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 28, 2013
Web Framework Benchmarks
Round 1 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Project!
Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web
Mozilla, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is advancing the Web as the platform for high-en
Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies
Mozilla has a long running interest in fostering greater transparency, trust and accountability related to privacy and the many cookie-based practices we see today. On Friday, Mozilla released a Firefox ...
How to solve the problem that the topmost comments get all upvotes
[[Update: As of August 2015, I have partly implemented the approach in the first example below (but not the second example). ]]
Making EmberJS Easier
We frequently receive feedback from new developers about how frustrating it can be to get started with Ember. Yesterday, one of the most active comment threads on Hacker News was largely about that....
Asm.js in Firefox Nightly
I’m happy to announce that OdinMonkey, an asm.js optimization module for Firefox’s JavaScript engine, is now in Nightly builds and will ship with Firefox 22 in June.