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Today, we’re excited to announce that Instapaper is joining Pinterest. In the three years since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve completely rewritten our backend, overhauled our mobile and web clients, improved parsing and search, and introduced tons of great features like highlights…
Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry in recent times, a whole generation of programmers are being taught the worst of all ways of doing concurrency, in a system that doesn’t scale either in performance or project size and with one of the languages most plagued by pitfalls ever created.
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
I’ve edited a couple of the JSON RFCs, and am working on the design of a fairly complex DSL, so I think I can claim to have dug deeper in the JSON mines than most. We can easily agree on what’s wrong with JSON, and I can’t help wondering if it’d be worth fixing it.
Note: The timeline has been updated. Please see our October 2021 post for more details. We have always believed in making the open, inter...
AVFoundation, the low-level audio/video framework in iOS and macOS, does not accurately seek within VBR MP3s, making VBR impractical to use for long files such as podcasts. Jumping to a timestamp in an hour-long VBR podcast can result in an error of over a minute, without the listener even knowing because the…
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
Extracting blocks within a city as GeoJSON polygons from OpenStreetMap data
Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5, giving you improved security, reduced power consumption and faster page load times.
Up until mid-2010, any rogue website could get a good sense of your browsing habits by specifying a distinctive :visited CSS pseudo-class ...
A few years after HTTP appeared, around when W3C was founded in 1994, it was clear that an unencrypted and unauthenticated connection was too much of a liability for a lot of serious stuff, such as e-commerce, which everyone wanted to do on the web. (In those days, mass Deep Packet Inspection was not technically…
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Today, we’re announcing a new developer tool called the Squarespace Local Development Server . With it, developers can preview changes to template code locally (on their computer) before pushing them to a live website.
Two weeks ago, I was on holiday in Turin, Italy and made a boo boo. I forgot my phone in our rental car for a two hour visit to a local…
People can be quite snobbish about WordPress, just as they are about many successful things. But there’s a very good reason for WordPress’s tremendous success.
By Asa Dotzler and Brad Lassey Electrolysis is the project name for Mozilla's efforts to split Firefox into multiple processes to improve responsiveness, stability, and security. The first phase of ...
Posted by Tim Graham on Aug. 1, 2016
QUIC replaces TCP with UDP for faster connections, eliminating head-of-line blocking and reducing latency. Learn how it works and why it matters.
“There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone who can’t make a syndication feed that’s well-formed XML is an incompetent fool.——Maybe this is unkind and elitist of me, but I think that anyone who either can’t or won’t implement these measures is, as noted above, a bozo.” – Tim Bray , co-editor of the XML 1.0…
Posted by Jay Brown, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Security For many years, we’ve worked to increase the use of encryption between our us...
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
In January, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the core of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows Platform. We expressed our ambition to bring our best-in-class, but Windows-only, JavaScript engine to other platforms, with Linux as the prioritized target. Today at NodeSummit, we are…
Mathias Karlsson decided to check out the security of the LastPass browser extensions. Here's what he found.
Learn the basics of web design in 4 minutes with this interactive tutorial.
