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Let’s encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web, Aas et al., CCS’19 This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 20…
Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console ...
Think about the most complex frontends you’ve used. Frontends that made you wonder — “how did they create this”?
Make your client-side apps load fast and provide a good user experience.
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's ...
Today I found another way to draw the Sierpinski triangle using pure CSS.
Polymath is a markup language for aesthetically presenting a wide variety of information including text, mathematics, programming, photos, videos, and more.
By Liwei Guo, Vivian Li, Julie Beckley, Venkatesh Selvaraj, and Jeff Watts
It’s an interesting time. Microsoft now maintains three different web browsers: Internet Explorer 11Microsoft Edge Legacy (Spartan, v18 and below)Chromium-based Microsoft Edge (v79+) If you&#…
I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with. I’ve been taking for…
On January 30th, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to the remaining parts of the Continental U.S. , including Alaska and the Central and Southeastern U.S.:
The newly redesigned Apple Maps was built from the ground up to let users in the US more easily navigate and explore the world.
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
This blog post is about my journey to understand the current practice of de-anonymization via the clickjacking technique whereby a malicious website is able to uncover the identity of a visitor, including his full name and possibly other personal information. I don’t present any new information here that isn’t already…
Link to: https://benpackard.github.io/blog/2020-01-28-sign-in-with-apple/
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Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
About the rise and fall of Microsoft's take on the web.
Rough.js is a light weight javascript library that lets you draw graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.
Dataset Search launches publicly with an index of 25 million datasets, helping scientists, journalists, students, data geeks to find data.
It was called Xanadu . It was a grand, holistic vision: of documents that, once published, are available basically forever; of bidirectional links that could glue together not just documents, but parts thereof; of managing copyright and royalties. It was complex. And it never really came to fruition.
