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Yesterday, January 2nd, my wife received a billing alert from her phone provider. Luckily, she's not with EE - because it's a pretty convincing text. That domain name is specifically designed to include the day's date. If you're stood up on a crowded train, with your phone screen cracked, would you notice that a . is…
When building web services, a common wisdom is to try to reduce the number of HTTP requests to improve performance.
Guide to building up a tile server and map client from scratch with PostGIS and PostgreSQL.
Redux greatly shaped how we develop modern JavaScript applications nowadays. Here I want to give a walkthrough on all the mindset changes we went through as JavaScript developers ...
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Despite the goal of JSON being a subset of JavaScript — which it failed to achieve (update: this was fixed ) — parsing JSON is quite unlike parsing a programming language. For invalid inputs, the specific cause of error is often counter-intuitive. Normally this doesn’t matter, but I recently ran into a case where it…
Just like last year, I made a list of the best media I enjoyed over the year. This includes music, films, series and games.
Want to add an RSS feed of a site to News app? Can’t find a site you like in the Apple approved list on News app? No problem, here’s how you can add them yourself from Safari in iOS and subscribe directly[…]
I had the opportunity to work on scaling a React rendering service, adapting a fixed hardware provision to deal with increasing load. Over the course of many months, incremental improvements were made to the system to enable it to cope with demand. I thought it might be useful to share the more interesting insights…
Intro With current hot topic of ditching Google services wherever and whenever we can, we often forget about that little piece of JavaScript code embedded in …
As WebGPU specification is approaching a usable shape, we are working on prototype implementations in both Gecko and Servo. If you ever wondered about what i...
You ever notice that there's this funny threshold for getting to the front page on sites like HN? The exact threshold varies depending on how much traffic there is, but, for articles that aren't wildly popular, there's this moment when the article is at N-1 votes. There is, perhaps, a 60% chance that the vote will…
In September 2019 Apple reopened the doors of its historic store in the Fifth Avenue and to celebrate the special event
A site for cataloging the many technical musing of Andy Desmarais
We will demonstrate how to do a complete port of a web application from React + Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust .
Some thoughts about the modern web
Ember 3.15 is Octane! Curious what Octane means for web development? This blog post will get you oriented. For a write up of the technical details (upgrade strategies, deprecations, new Ember Data...
Building progressive and performant sites with React
This year, we released the 1st official version of our API. Our API versioning scheme allows us to providing apps with stable behavior and predictable timelines.
In 2015 Cliqz released its own desktop web browser, forked from Firefox. Up to that point, we had distributed our search and privacy products as a single Firefox addon. In this article we cover why we thought it necessary to create our own browser, why we chose Firefox, and why we think it was the right choice.
90Phut TV là trang web không thể bỏ qua dành cho những tín đồ theo dõi bóng đá trực tuyến. Kênh đảm bảo mang đến chất lượng tường thuật mượt mà cùng nhiều tin
Back in July last year, Scott Helme and I shipped a little pet project that tracked the world's largest websites not implementing HTTPS by default [https://www.troyhunt.com/why-no-https-heres-the-worlds-largest-websites-not-redirecting-insecure-requests/] . We called it Why No HTTPS? [https://whynohttps.
Following HTML, CSS and JavaScript, WebAssembly becomes the fourth language for the Web which allows code to run in the browser
If only someone paid me everytime I visited CSSTrick's flexbox guide…or at least all those times when I fiddled around {justify,align}-{content,items} trying to make _something_ happen on screen. I wanted to form a better mental model of all the basic functionality that flexbox provides for all those…
