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Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
I like to think of infrastructure as the part of a system that everyone needs and no one likes to work on! It is often undifferentiated & messy, tedious to work on, difficult to manage, critical to the success of whatever relies on it, and generally taken for granted (as long as it works as […]
XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking Cookies
Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says: "The NSA’s ability to...
Firefox 39.0 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Mozilla Games Technology Roadmap
In furthering the advantages and appeal of the Web as a platform for games and game technologies, Mozilla is publishing its games-focused roadmap. In short, it’s all about high-performance, plugin-free ...
Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
Last year I wrote about AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage . The most important part was the following.
Compiler Errors for Humans
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio
Google Play Music has whatever you need music for — and now comes in a free, ad-supported version in the U.S.
Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
Describing content blocking rules in a structured format ahead-of-time, rather than running extension-provided code.
Ember.js 1.13.0 and 2.0 Beta Released
We are pleased to announce the release of both Ember.js 1.13.0 and the first beta in the 2.0 series. This comes as the thirteenth cycle of our release process...
ES6 in Depth – Symbols
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Note: There is ...
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.
Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end
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New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40
Today Mozilla is pleased to announce the availability of Firefox Developer Edition 40 (DE 40) featuring all-new performance tools! In this post we will cover some of DE 40’s new ...
ES6 in Depth: Destructuring
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Editor’s note: An ...