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A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security b...
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Building Webhooks into Your Application: Guidelines and Best Practices (2020)
Learn how to build a webhook, send it from your app, manage authentication, handle security, and provide a smooth developer experience to your customers.
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The Quirks of Gmail UI
A Tale of DKIM signed email I run a mailwip(former hanami), an email forwarding service and I have a few stories about email that I want to share. Today I want to talk about Gmail. Gmail is a big player in email world. It dominates small and medium startups. All of companies that I worked for has been using gmail…
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A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.
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HTTPWTF
HTTP is fundamental to modern development, from frontend to backend to mobile. But like any widespread mature standard, it's got some funky skeletons in the...
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Flutter 2
Today, we’re announcing Flutter 2 : a major upgrade to Flutter that enables developers to create beautiful, fast, and portable apps for any platform. With Flutter 2, you can use the same codebase to ship native apps to five operating systems: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux; as well as web experiences…
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Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, and much more
Deno 1.8 adds experimental support for the WebGPU API, adds support for importing private modules, stabilizes import maps, revamps coverage tooling, adds ICU to provide internationalization out of the box, and a whole lot more.
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Firefox 86.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
Beginning last year, the internet began playing a bigger role in our lives than ever before. In the US, we went from only three percent of workers to more
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State Partitioning
State Partitioning is the new privacy feature called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86.
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Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders
You might know about Microsoft's Flight Simulator release in August last year and like me, if you're interested in flight simulators or photorealistic…
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Total Cookie Protection
Total Cookie Protection is a major anti-tracking advance in Firefox that confines cookies to the site where they were created.
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Nextcloud Hub 21
Nextcloud Hub 21 brings a wide range of improvements in file handling performance with Files High Performance Back-end and important new collaboration features in Text, Talk, Groupware and Files.
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Best practices for REST API design (2020)
In this article, we'll look at how to design REST APIs to be easy to understand for anyone consuming them, future-proof, and secure and fast since they serve data to clients that may be confidential.
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Streams – The Definitive Guide
The Streams API allows JavaScript to programmatically access streams of data received over the network and process them as desired.
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Browsers eating RAM
This got a lot more attention than it deserves. As I'm pointing out below, it's likely the case that the system tool I used for measuring memory footprint isn't giving the full picture. It's also not a very indicative test in terms of every day use. However, I do think the reason this resonated with so many people is…
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Faster JavaScript Calls
Faster JavaScript calls by removing the arguments adaptor frame
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Always Use “Buttons” for Size Selection
Individual "buttons" are a common design for selecting sizes, but are they really better than drop-down menus? See our latest usability test findings on product page size selectors.
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
Learn web scraping using Python in this step-by-step tutorial. Use Requests, Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, and scraping APIs with practical 2026 examples.
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Migrating a JavaScript Library from JavaScript to WebAssembly
My journey of improving the performance of our ultra resolution storytelling tool Micrio by upgrading the JavaScript-only client to WebAssembly.
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Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…
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Making our new homepage fast and performant
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
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Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste
Visual mode is a mouseless way of selecting any text on any page (with as few keystrokes as possible). Conceptually based on vi 's visual mode, Nyxt adapts it for the web.
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WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
A brief overview of the history, architecture, use cases, and future of WebRTC.
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We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
We rendered the top 1 million pages on the web, tracking every conceivable performance metric, logging every error, noting every requested URL. To our knowledge this produces the first dataset that connects performance, errors, and library use on the web. In this article we analyze what the data can tell us about…
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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
Trackers and adtech companies have long abused browser features to follow people around the web. Since 2018, we have been dedicated to reducing the number of ways our users can ...