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The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ) is over 30 years old but is a pervasive part of internet culture. We use GIFs to serve short, silent, and looping videos, which frequently become memes . Entire services exist to create and share them, and many smartphone keyboards have built-in GIF support.
Nowadays especially it's nice to have things to read. New things, things from various sources and various voices, various minds talking about their thoughts and experiences, telling their stories, posting pictures and th…
Editor’s preface: When I first joined Dropbox in May 2017, we were at the tail end of our CoffeeScript to TypeScript migration. If you wanted to make changes to a CoffeeScript file, it was considered common courtesy to convert it to TypeScript while you were at it. Parts of our codebase were still using…
This is a follow-up to Wednesday’s Let’s Guess What Google Requires In 14 Days Or They Kill Our Extension .
I expect I'll annoy everyone with this post: the anti-JavaScript crusaders, justly aghast at how much...
Francesco Carlucci / Software Architect & Ethical Hacker2020374 points171 commentsCareer & Management details
Have you ever thought to find your next job in an HTTP header? cURL can reveal this and many more secrets.
Thanks to recent work in Chrome and Emscripten, you can now use up to 4GB of memory in WebAssembly applications. That’s up from the previous limit of 2GB. It might seem odd that there was ever a limit - after all, no work was needed to allow people to use 512MB or 1GB of memory! - but it turns out that there are some…
Tab grouping feature coming to Google Chrome
Dynamic languages are useful tools. Scripting allows users to rapidly and succinctly tie together complex systems and express ideas without worrying about details like memory management or build systems.
We at Pushbullet have received some bad news from Google. It appears our extension will be removed from the Chrome Web Store if we don’t make required changes within 14 days. Not good! The bigger problem? Google hasn’t told us what those required changes are.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Next.js 9.4 introduces React Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration, New Environment Support, Built-in Fetch, and more!
I have a theory that a grave mistake was made in 1995 - the decision not to have a neat, succinct and declarative way of representing html elements in javascript. [On reading the hacker news comments this is pretty historically inaccurate, however, I think this article still stands as "look just how close javascript…
What if everyone's wrong?
Welcome to my new blog! This is going to be a bit of an experiment for me. I have wanted to set up a blog for quite some time now but I never wanted to host my blog on some other website like medium (call it a vanity thing but I like seeing my name in that URL). I also didn’t really want to set up something like…
Org Mode HTML output can look like this webpage, but as its [[http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.co...
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…
Tim Kadlec writes about performance, product management, and the web.
Learn how to use OpenCV in the web without a lot of headaches.
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Back in February, we announced support for the first extension for Firefox Preview, the new and rebuilt mobile browser for Android that is set to replace Firefox for Android later ...
Optimizing for quality of user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web. Through our ongoing engagement and coll...
We just open sourced "React Flow" : A library for rendering interactive node-based graphs with a smooth panning and zooming behaviour and…
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
