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Nobody expects CDATA sections in XML
I made a very explicit, pragmatic design decision with afl-fuzz : for performance and reliability reasons, I did not want to get into stati...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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2 years with Angular
AI fair value $183 vs ask $100 — fse.guru looks under-priced for a ultra-short .guru.
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GitHub dropped Pygments
My first-ever open source contribution, a couple years ago, was to a project called Pygments. My motivation? GitHub was displaying Racket source code poorly. Pygments didn't have a Racket lexer. GitHub was using a Scheme lexer for Racket code. The Scheme ...
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC
WebRTC is one of the most exciting things to happen to the Web in years: it has the potential to bring instant voice and video calling to anyone with a browser, finally unshackling us from propriet…
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Generators in Firefox now 22 times faster
wingolog: article: generators in firefox now twenty-two times faster
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Pulling JPEGs out of thin air
This is an interesting demonstration of the capabilities of afl ; I was actually pretty surprised that it worked! $ mkdir in_dir $ echo ' h...
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AngularJS: The Bad Parts
Hey! If you do front end development, you should know about CatchJS. It’s a JavaScript error logging service that doesn’t suck. Below is a graph over the amount of searches for AngularJ…
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Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS
An experiment in creating a 3D environment using HTML elements and CSS transforms featuring lights, shadows and collision detection.
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Principles of Rich Web Applications
7 actionable principles for websites that want to make use of JavaScript to control their UI and deliver the best performance
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Let's Talk About Beacons
Let's Talk About Beacons If you’ve been following the tech scene lately, you may have heard a thing or two about “Beacons”. What are Beacons? Beacons are hardware devices emitting a unique signature...
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How To Scroll
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
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Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Move Fast, Don't Break Your API
Amber on Rails
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Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server
When learning a new programming language, I tend to write two things with it: a language interpreter (usually a FORTH-like language or Brainfuck if I'm feeling lazy), and a HTTP server. Sometimes, just as a challenge or a way to quench my boredom, I do this even though I've been working with a particular language for…
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Bye Bye JavaScript Promises
In my previous post , I explored how programming with promises can be made close to programming with values. After some more work on it, and some learning from bluebird , I came to conclude that my brain doesn’t think well with promises. So I wrote a macro for Javascript that expands “tasks” into async state machines…
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Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes
This is a post I've been meaning to write for the last 7 years. In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement but since the sub...
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Flip – A ReactJS Game
Building upon my experience with the ReactJS Slide Puzzle, I thought I'd take the concept of a React-based game one step further. Flip is not very practical, and uses a lot of potentially buggy CSS3 and ES5 methods, but I mean, it's just a game. Besides, it shows some of
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Let's build a browser engine, Part 6: Block layout
This article will continue the layout module that we started in Part 5. This time, we’ll add the ability to lay out block boxes. These are boxes that are stack vertically, such as headings and paragraphs.
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Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations
I think Apple Watch prices are going to be shockingly high — gasp-inducingly, get-me-to-the-fainting-couch high — from the perspective of the tech industry. But at the same time, there is room for them to be disruptively *low* from the perspective of the traditional watch and jewelry world.