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As of today, Enhanced Tracking Protection will be turned on by default, strengthening the security and privacy for all of our users around the world. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
Modern web applications load and execute a lot more JavaScript code than they did just a few years ago. While JIT (just-in-time) compilers have been very successful in making JavaScript ...
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has joined the Brave platform as a Verified Publisher. Created in 2001, Wikipedia is edited and verified by volunteers around the world.
Having an RSS feed is a great way of allowing readers from all over the internet consume your conent. But please, make sure the entire post is in there!
Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, and a significant fraction of the rest is users on untethered laptop computers.
I had originally shared a version of this post with a small, private mailing list, but then I figured there'd be no harm in sharing it with a larger audience so here it is.
In the last few months, I have learned a lot about modern JavaScript and CSS development with a local toolchain powered by Node 8, Webpack 4, and Babel 7. As part of that, I am doing my second “re-introduction to JavaScript”. I first learned JS in 1998. Then relearned it…
The solution we found helps us run Figma plugins in a safe way — i.e. not eval(UNTRUSTED_CODE).
Chrome is announcing a new initiative to explore how to evolve the web in a way that advances privacy, while supporting publishers, and free and open content.
This post is based on a talk I gave at the React JS & React Native Bonn Meetup.It aims to answer the following questions: What’s TypeScript? How can I ...
The WebAuthn standard for security keys is making authentication as easy as possible. Now you can use security keys for second-factor authentication on GitHub with many more browsers and devices.
People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser. People are also excited about running WebAssembly from languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust. Lin Clark's Code Cartoons are back, illustrating ...
Obey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example
We are excited to announce a new release of the React Developer Tools, available today in Chrome, Firefox, and (Chromium) Edge! What’s changed? A lot has changed in version 4! At a high level, this new version should offer significant performance gains and an improved navigation experience. It also offers full support…
When I read Fitz’ tweet about ordered JSON my body shuddered, as my brain was flooded with a past experience that taught me a frightening lesson on technology being used by non-technical comp…
I tried it out, ran through their tutorial, and built a few small things. And I can honestly say that I think writing Svelte feels even faster and easier than React. Svelte gave me the same spark, the same feeling of “wow!” that I had with React.
This document describes the web tracking practices that WebKit believes, as a matter of policy, should be prevented by default by web browsers.
Today we are publishing the WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy, covering: What types of tracking WebKit will prevent.
How I optimize SVGs for this blog and why you probably should, too.
OpenCensus Web is a tool to trace and monitor the user-perceived performance of your web pages. It can help determine whether or not your web pages are experiencing performance issues that you might otherwise not know how to diagnose.
Updated 2023-04-16 Or how to serve half a billion placeholder images a month on a budget. Lorem Picsum is one of the most popular placeholder sites on the internet. It started as a small side project written in NodeJS five years ago to cover my own needs and has since gone through several iterations as it has grown…
Modern frontend web development is a polarizing experience: many love it, others despise it. I am a huge fan of modern web development, though I would describe it as “magical” — a…
