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Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss
Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss Stephen Arthur, Software Engineer Jun 1, 2017 Yelp has over 100 million user-generated photos ranging from pictures of dinners or haircuts, to one of...
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We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with the Better Ads Standards
We believe online ads should be better. The Better Ads Standards provide clear, public, data-driven guidance for how the industry can improve ads for consumers. Here's h…
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Facebook is an attack on the open web
Dave Winer won’t link to Facebook posts from his blog. I don’t either.
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WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly
Historically, running native code on the web required a browser plugin. In 2013, we introduced the PNaCl sandbox to provide a means of bui...
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The browser bugs and edge cases of HTTP/2 push
There are lots of edge cases I hadn't considered, and it's very inconsistent between browsers. Here's what I found…
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Mac external displays for designers and developers
If you’re considering an external display for your Mac, there’s a few important decisions to make. Apple doesn’t sell external displays any more, so you can’t just default to their wisdom. That’s an issue, because not all displays are well suited for Macs.
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Unicode is hard
In the last couple of months, I've been seeing the ú symbol on British receipts. Why? 1963 - ASCII In the beginning* was ASCII. A standard way for computers to exchange text. ASCII was originally designed with 7 bits - that means 128 possible symbols. That ought to be enough for everyone, right? Wrong! ASCII is the…
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The scourge of web analytics
I’ve been making web apps since 2003, which means that I’ve been doing this for fourteen years now, or it means that I can’t count. So, there are few people more qualified than me to tell you this:
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The state of JavaScript modules
Recently, there was a lot of fuss on Twitter regarding the current state of ES modules, especially in Node.js, which decided to introduce…
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Switching From React To Vue.js
Thinking about a switch from React to Vue? They're similar beasts but with a few key differences. In this article I'll explain the differences so you're ready to jump in to VueJS and be productive.
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How to Achieve Polished UI
Ever since the original iPhone came out, I’ve had several ideas about how they managed to achieve such fluidity with relatively mediocre hardware. I mean, it was good at the time, but Android still struggles on hardware that makes that look like a 486… It’s absolutely my fault that none of these have been implemented…
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A Year of Google and Apple Maps
Shortly after I published my Cartography Comparison last year, I noticed Google updating some of the areas we had focused on:
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Chrome Won
Disclaimer: I worked for 7 years at Mozilla and was Mozilla’s Chief Technology Officer before leaving 2 years ago to found an embedded AI startup. Mozilla published a blog post two days ago h…
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Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of web applications
Today I finally released the project I’ve been working on for the last two years at MIT CSAIL : An HTML-based language for creating (many kinds of) web applications without programming or a server backend. It’s named Mavo after my late mother ( Ma ria V er o u), and is Open Source of course (yes, getting paid to work…
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Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide – attack by subtitles. By crafting malicious subtitle %
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Jamboard is now available
Good ideas become great ones when you work together with your teammates. But as teams become increasingly distributed, you need tools that spur visual creativity and col…
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HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
Today, we deployed HTTPS by default on Stack Overflow. All traffic is now redirected to https:// and Google links will change over the next few weeks. The ac...
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An open-source web platform for the new President of France
The web platform running the winning campaign of the next President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is made with Symfony and is open source.
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Kotlin is the hero Android needs
On May 17th 2019 Google announced Kotlin as the officially supported language for Android, in a long awaited development. Find out more about this shift here.
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