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Edit: This post was created 2016 shortly after Instapaper was purchased by Pinterest. As part of the acquisition, Pinterest decided to make Instapaper Premium free for everyone. In 2018, Instapaper was spun out into an independent company run by the same people who managed it since 2013. As part of the spinout, we…
WebAssembly or Wasm is a new runtime and compilation target for the web, now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary!
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
Introducing CoinTent
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
[2016-10-26] First version of the article [2016-10-28] Presentation at Soft-Shake Conference, Geneva ( slides ) [2016-11-01] Article and comments in The Register [2017-11-16] Presentation at Black Alps Security Conference, Yverdon ( slides ) [2018-03-09] Presentation at Toulouse Hacking Conference ( slides )…
The newest addition to G Suite, Jamboard is a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas and create without boundaries.
We're very proud to open-source Next.js, a small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript webapps.
A hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990. Provided for historical interest only. The diagrams are a bit dotty, but available in versioins linked below. The text has not been changed, even…
Mozilla has discovered that a Certificate Authority (CA) called WoSign has had a number of technical and management failures. Most seriously, we discovered they were backdating SSL certificates in order ...
JavaScript tutorials and web development articles including topics like NodeJS, Angular, VueJS, Data Structures and Algorithms.
Emailed password reset links are a common part of web applications. Is your site leaking these confidential links to third party sites?
Complete guide to Varnish cache: HTTP headers, VCL configuration, cache invalidation, ESI, and practical setup. Video, slides & real-world examples.
Here is the story of how we leveraged research on web-caching and NoSQL systems to prepare a webshop for hundreds of thousands of visitors…
Chrome and Firefox disagree on IDN addresses in type=email inputs: punycode, validity and the value JavaScript sees. Feature detection is the workaround.
Why GitLab went with Vue.js
We’ve spent the past two weeks asking people around the world to think about our four refined design directions for the Mozilla brand identity. The results are in and the ...
An algorithm we’ve depended on for most of the life of the Internet — SHA-1 — is aging, due to both mathematical and technological advances. Digital signatures incorporating the SHA-1 ...
OpenJS promotes the widespread adoption and continued development of key JavaScript solutions worldwide.
Update 10/17/2016 6:30pm: You can read a response from the tech lead of the AMP Project for Google, in the comment area. Update 11/01/2016 10:40pm: After learning more about AMP, it became clear that…
Linguistic, Political, and Technical Limitations.
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
When Mac OS X first launched they did so without an existing poll function. They later added poll() in Mac OS X 10.3, but we quickly discovered that it was broken (it returned a non-zero value when asked to wait for nothing) so in the curl project we added a check in configure for that … Continue reading poll on mac…
