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Performance metrics for web apps
Performance metrics are surprisingly challenging to get right. Here we share how to create metrics that are accurate, precise, and useful!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,470 posts.
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Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...
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Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
An exploratory data analysis of the extensions available from the Chrome webstore.
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The cost of parsing JSON
The dominant costs of processing JavaScript are download and CPU execution time.
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A Love Letter to Personal Websites
This is a declaration of love for personal websites, written from years of thinking on the subject, reviewing thousands of portfolios, building websites for friends and bookmarking those of strangers. It’s a subject I’m so passionate about, I built my business on it. And recently, it’s become a matter of principle…
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Slack Shared Channels
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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Firefox moving to 4 week releases
Building and releasing a browser is complicated and involves many players. To optimize the process, and make it more reliable for all users, over the years we’ve developed a phased ...
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Feathers 4: A framework for Real-Time apps and REST APIs
Today I’m happy to share the release of Feathers 4 (Crow), a framework for real-time applications and REST APIs in JavaScript and…
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The history and legacy of jQuery
jQuery has lately fallen out of favor in web development, but it still powers an estimated 74 percent of sites and paved the way for modern web frameworks.
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Elevating original reporting in Search
Google makes ranking changes to highlight original reporting.
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WebGPU and WSL in Safari
WebGPU is a new API being developed by Apple and others in the W3C which enables high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the Web.
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Dark Mode for Slack
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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A lighter V8
The V8 Lite project dramatically reduced the memory overhead of V8 on typical websites, this is how we did it.
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Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar
Read this page on the Filament Group website
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Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
Today we’re announcing the integration of MDN’s compat data into the caniuse website. Together, we’re bringing even more web compatibility information into the hands of web developers.
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Metronomes in JavaScript
Monica Dinculescu's blog
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Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns
Like a cat, the Test Pilot program has had many lives. It originally started as an Add-on before we relaunched it three years ago. Then in January, we anno
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Frustrations with React Hooks
React Hooks can be frustrating despite their popularity and widespread use. Learn about some of the drawbacks to using React Hooks.
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Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
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Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5k% spikes instantly)
Learnings from real-world experience with IPFS, and the curious stack that powers this website
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CSRF is really dead
A little while back I wrote a blog post about how "CSRF is dead". It focused on SameSite cookies, a powerful yet simple feature to protect your website against CSRF attacks. As powerful as it was, and as much as it will kill CSRF, you had to enable it on
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Facebook Dating
Facebook Dating makes it easier to find love through what you like.
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Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
In the past few years, a technique called browser fingerprinting has received a lot of attention because of the risks it can pose to privacy. What is it? How is it used? What is Tor Browser doing against it? In this blog post, I’m here to answer these questions.
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Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser
WebAssembly has begun to establish itself outside of the browser via dedicated runtimes like Mozilla’s Wasmtime and Fastly’s Lucet. While the promise of a new, universal format for programs is ...
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
Developers have asked what Google's proposed changes to their extensions API, known as Manifest v3, mean for Mozilla. Here are some frequently asked questions.