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Atom's autocomplete just got better
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS
As a UPS cargo load master, Bland Matthews has been tasked with shipping everything from Terracotta Army soldiers to beluga whales.
Obtaining a Thorough CS Background Online
An eclectic online curriculum that covers the core requirements of a typical undergraduate CS program.
Visual Rust 0.1 is out
A user friendly game engine written in Rust
Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go
Stories about sunrise, sunset, twilight, golden hour, daylight, solar phenomena and travel — published on Sunrise.am.
Hyperlapse makes first-person videos smooth and speedy
Professional photographer Nick Didlick always wanted to make a great ski movie, but he had long been stymied by the need for two things: Tons of pricey camera gear, and plenty of time to shoot.
Why your 'A' grade SSL is 'outdated cryptography' on Chrome
Get EV SSL certificates in hours, not days. Prechecks before you pay. We do the hard work for you.
After 100 Years, Ramanujan Gap Filled (2013)
History of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s lost notebooks and an exploration of solutions to those equations using Mathematica.
Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily
This is getting serious. Just 5 months after reaching 1 billion messages , Telegram doubled in user activity — and hit 2 billion messages delivered per day.
Inspiration vs. Imitation
An indie design engineer based in Brooklyn.
A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art
Play the Chrome dinosaur game online, free and without installing anything. Jump the cacti, duck the pterodactyls, add your score to your country and challenge friends in a battle.
Update on Digital Rights Management and Firefox
A year ago, we announced the start of efforts to implement support for a component in Firefox that would allow content wrapped in Digital Rights Management
Firefox 38 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy
There are millions of SQL users around the world. Who are these people, what is SQL, and what are they all using it for? Start learning S...
Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
CloudFlare “Interview Questions”
For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?
UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights
Prominent experts at the United Nations have now indicated that secretive trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) undermine human rights around the world, both because of the secretive, corporate-dominated process, and due to the substantive content of the provisions that arise...
EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents
This week, together with Public Knowledge and Engine, EFF submitted written comments to the Patent Office regarding its Patent Quality Initiative. We urge the Patent Office to ensure that this program actually reduces the number of invalid patents being issued. Its quality efforts should serve the...