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Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport? Animations by Rachel Nabors Today, scrolling is still…
Performance is tricky to measure, and has many aspects. Also, in a new technology there are always going to be not-yet-optimized cases. So not every single benchmark will be fast ...
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars . To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power ...
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
JWT, JWE, JWS, etc. are terrible designs and need to be scrapped, not resuscitated.
An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
12 Mar, 2017 The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How can they possibly be our allies?
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Your AMP pages have a higher than usual bounce rate? Don't worry, your data may be wrong. In this article, I explain you why.
Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. Let this pledge be duly noted on the permanent record of the Internet. I don’t know if there’s an afterlife, but I’ll be finding out soon enough, and I plan
Few things are as satisfying as completing a task. But at work, it’s not always so easy. The days are short and packed with to-dos, like following up on sales leads, logging support tickets or sending invoices. And while great apps exists to tackle these workstreams, most users have to flip between them and their…
An interesting whitepaper was released at the 2017 NDSS Symposium discussing a large-scale attempt at determining just how vulnerable client-side JavaScript libraries are. We wanted to share some of our thoughts on the report.
EDIT: Wow, much to my surprise this really blew up on Hacker News . There are some pretty interesting discussions happening. (Thanks Stan !)
CSS Remynification: A completely crazy idea that worked -- Remy Luisant's whimsical take on squishy computing science things
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
In today's post, we'll be discussing AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic. We have found that there are two types of publishers who may have inval…
Legal Issues in Open Source Software Development2017172 points67 commentsSoftware Engineering details
Common legal challenges and effective strategies in open source software development. Ensure your projects are legally sound & compliant
Pair typefaces effectively: Categorize fonts by properties. Use 3×3 grid method to find combinations.
The Containers feature in Firefox Nightly gives users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing ...
Now for queries containing sequences of 2-3 special characters such as [== vs ===] and [+=], Google will return results on the meaning of these sequences in programming …
