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Vue in 2016
It’s already end of 2016! During the past 12 months, Vue’s growth has been consistently exceeding my expectations — the project has grown…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 276 posts.
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How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google Analytics
Find out how referral spam in Google Analytics can be produced, why anybody would take time to do that and personality behind the latest spam wave.
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The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix (2015)
If you have been paying attention on Twitter recently, you have likely seen some increasing numbers regarding the number of simultaneous connections the Phoenix web framework can handle. This post documents some of the techniques used to perform the benchmarks.
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Update on Multi-Process Firefox
About four months ago, we launched multi-process Firefox to a small group of Firefox 48 users. Shortly after the carefully measured roll-out, we increased to approximately 50% of our user ...
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Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools
Firebug, the original browser developer tool, has been discontinued as a separate Firefox add-on, and will go forward as Firebug.next atop Firefox DevTools. The spirit of Firebug lives on in ...
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Piwik 3.0.0
Piwik 3.0.0 brings many improvements to Piwik, including a full redesign of the application, security improvements and several major improvements in the core analytics platform and core plugins APIs.
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System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively
"Polaris" system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab accelerates website load-time by decreasing network trips.
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Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js
This blog post highlights some of the recent efforts to make Node.js better supported in V8 and Chrome DevTools.
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Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers
Suppose you're developing a sophisticated web game or application, and you're wondering — will it actually be able to run? What hardware should I be targeting to get the widest ...
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Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate
The talks of webpack 2 started back in January of 2015. Since then we have published multiple versions from 2.0 to 2.1-beta.28.
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Chrome 56 Beta: “Not Secure” Warning, Web Bluetooth, and CSS Position: Sticky
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Wi...
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An exploit kit hiding in the pixels of malicious ads
Millions of readers who visit popular news websites have been targeted by a series of malicious ads redirecting them to the Stegano exploit kit.
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Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
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Closure Compiler in JavaScript
The Closure Compiler was originally released, in Java, back in 2009 . Today, we're announcing the very same Closure Compiler is now available in pure JavaScript , for use without Java. It's designed to run under NodeJS with support for some popular build tools.
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Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
Chrome 55 uses ~30% less memory for weather.com and reddit.com
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URL Parsing in WebKit
URLs have been used for decades now and you'd would think they would have consistent behavior…
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A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov
By Brendan Neutra and Aimee Barciauskas
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Lambda@Edge – Preview
Just last week, a comment that I made on Hacker News resulted in an interesting email from an AWS customer! He told me that he runs a single page app that is hosted on S3 (read about this in Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3) and served up at low latency through Amazon CloudFront. […]
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Svelte – A UI framework that compiles into tiny standalone JavaScript modules
You can’t write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you.
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HPACK: the silent killer (feature) of HTTP/2
If you have experienced HTTP/2 for yourself, you are probably aware of the visible performance gains possible with HTTP/2 due to features like stream multiplexing, explicit stream dependencies, and Server Push.
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RSS 2.0 Specification (Current)
The current version of the RSS 2.0 specification (2.0.11), published on March 30, 2009.