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What is a Source Map
These days web assets such as JS and CSS aren’t simple text files. Instead, they’re typically minified or come from a complex build process involving compili...
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Using SVG as image placeholders
I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the web. One of the most interesting areas of…
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Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope
This is a code-reading and exploration post about the WebSockets side of Phoenix. It builds upon some of the tracing techniques showcased in the previous post, to observe some of the internals of Phoenix. It also features some tricks I commonly employ to debug WebSocket related issues. The title and nature of this…
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On Web Extensions shortcomings and their impact on add-on security
Recently, I reported a security issue in the new Firefox Screenshots feature (fixed in Firefox 56). This issue is remarkable for a number of reasons. First of all, the vulnerable code was running within the Web Extensions sandbox, meaning that it didn’t have full privileges like regular Firefox code. This code was…
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Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57
Firefox 57 not only ships a large amount of performance improvements and a UI refresh, it also contains a number of technological improvemen...
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RSS: there's nothing better
“An RSS feed? That’s so 2007!” “Well then what do you suggest instead?”
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The Case for RSS
For several years now, the trend among geeks has been to abandon the RSS format. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way to queue up and serve content from the internet. The MacSparky RSS, for example, gives RSS applications a list of all the articles I post here since you last checked int. It... Continue reading →
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Simple React Patterns
I've been writing React applications for a few years now, and I've noticed that some patterns tend to repeat themselves. In this post, I'll review these patterns which will summarize about 99% of the React code I write every day.
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Firefox Quantum
Next week, Mozilla will release Firefox 57. Also referred to as Firefox Quantum, from the project name we've used for all the work that has been put into making this the most awesome Firefox release ever. This is underscored by the fact that I've gotten mailed release-swag for the first time during my four years ……
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WTF? Chromium (2016)
Chromium, like Chrome, runs Google's A-B trials (or Field Trials) on users' computers. This is what happened when one of those locked up my machine without warning.
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Chrome breaks the Web
Chrome team breaks existing web to make Chrome perform better
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Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
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How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS
I wrote a todo app. Unlike TodoMVC (where I took the design from) it doesn’t use JavaScript and instead all interactions are driven by CSS.
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
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The meaning of AMP
Google’s alternative facts.
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Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets
Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less…
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Hacker News for Hackers
Hacker News is one of the best sources for news in the intersection of technology and business. Hacker News gets nearly 1000 submissions on a busy weekday, and quite a bit less on the weekends:
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How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx
How to score a perfect 100/100 on Google PageSpeed with a Middleman static site behind Nginx.
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The “Happy Path” to HTTPS
It's finally time: it's time the pendulum swings further towards the "secure by default" end of the scale than what it ever has before. At least insofar as securing web traffic goes because as of this week's Chrome 62's launch, any website with an input box
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Show HN: Metaballs
Generating gooey metaballs as a single SVG path — locating the tangent points between two circles, spreading and curving the connector with polar coordinates, and handling overlap, after Hiroyuki Sato's Illustrator script.
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