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The rise of the API-based SaaS
API SaaS products bring a new age of enterprise cloud-based solutions. An age that empowers developers and creates the building blocks for our future.
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Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 347 easy steps
Today I set out to the task of upgrading a set of views crafted with the React library. The upgrade was necessary because one part of a view using React stopped working in Chrome Version 48.0.2564.116 (64-bit). I don’t know why this happened, I didn’t find anything related to it and as it stands this was probably the…
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Twitter's missing manual
I mentioned recently, buried in a post about UI changes, that Twitter’s latest earnings report included this bombshell: We are going to fix the broken windows and confusing parts, like the .@name syntax and @reply rules, that we know inhibit usag
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The New Web Typography
How should we go about making typographic laws, rules and guidelines for the web?
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301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)
Best practice has it that when you move content around for whatever good reasons you have that you should do it using a 301 redirect.
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Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server
A month or two ago, I decided to remove Varnish from my site and replace it with Nginx's built-in caching system . I was already using Nginx to proxy to my Python sites, so getting rid of Varnish meant one less thing to fiddle with. I spent a few days reading up on how to configure Nginx's cache and overhauling the…
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Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
If you use Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail/Outlook.com, you now have the option to Gmailify your inbox.
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Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese company)
StartSSL uses https://auth.startssl.com/ for the front-end to access to their PKIs (login to the PKI, create, revoke certificates...). It's the Core of their service and the critical part of their infrastructure.
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Introducing the B3 JIT compiler
WebKit's FTL JIT now uses a new backend on OS X — the Bare Bones Backend, or B3 for short, replaces LLVM as the low-level optimizer.
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Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack
Learn React from the ground up, without worrying about JSX, Flux, ES6, Webpack, etc.
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We Have Always Been at War with UI
A familiar story: company makes product, product becomes wildly popular, company royally fucks product up. The most recent example of this is TimelineGate, but it’s something I’ve had on my mind for a while. Thus I present to you a list of complaints about personally-inconvenient UI changes, carefully disguised as a…
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Towards an Open Banking API Standard
Disclaimer: I am a member of the Open Banking Working Group (OBWG) and was involved in drafting the OBWG report. However, the thoughts and opinions presented here are strictly my own. The OBWG̵…
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Web Scraping Finds Price Fluctuation
This is the last post ending a series of articles that have traced the prices of some of the top gifts, gadgets, and gizmos from Black Friday 2015 through to
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Introducing Vector Networks: Generalized path editing for graphics
Before I co-founded Figma my background was in game development, not in design. I remember being very surprised when I first encountered…
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Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
Making email safer for you with two new security features in Gmail on the web.
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Flash-Free Video in 2016
Read about how we turned off Flash support for VHS, the New York Times video player.
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