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A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly
We tested Firefox Preview, the new Firefox experience for Android, together with our users for 6 months. Now it's coming to Firefox for Android Nightly.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 541 posts.
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Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)
the real reason zsh beats bash • how I got twice as fast in python • autocompleting all the things • maximizing user-interface bandwidth
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How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service
We created a centralized authentication service, called Identity, by building upon functionality from the OpenID Connect (OIDC) specification.
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The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
A little over a year ago, we announced our intention to rebuild Microsoft Edge on the Chromium open source project with the goals of delivering better compatibility for everyone, less fragmentation for web developers, and a partnership with the Chromium community to improve the Chromium engine itself. At Ignite, we…
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Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4
When I read that Google is forcing developers to migrate from Google Sheets API v3 to v4, I was mad. Here's why.
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Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU
Intro By the end of 2018, NVIDIA released the new GPU series Turing, best known for its ability of accelerated ray tracing. Ray tracing is the process of simulating light paths from reality. In reality, billions of rays get shot around you and at some point, hit your eyes. Up...
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Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete
In August, we announced a new initiative (known as Privacy Sandbox) to develop a set of open standards to fundamentally enhance privacy on...
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OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
What do OT (Operational Transformation) and CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) really mean? And which one should you use in your real-time collaboration solution?
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Goodbye, Clean Code
Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
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HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
Learn how to use the HTML autocomplete, inputmode and pattern attributes to improve the user experience of logging in.
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Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target
If you're about my age and had a similarly dull upbringing, you probably also have memories of playing video games behind a teacher's back whenever class involved going to some sort of "computer lab." Flash games were the thing when I was in elementary school, and when I was in middle school, I'd bring Quake with me…
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Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API
Last year, Interline began a "startup in residence" at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Now we're pleased to publicly release our first creation: the San Francisco Bay Area's Regional GTFS Feed.
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API Security Best Practices
Learn how to secure your API. Best practices for OAuth, REST, DDoS, Attack Mitigation and Design.
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Firefox 72 – our first song of 2020
2020 is upon us, folks. We'd like to wish everyone reading this a happy new year, wherever you are. As you take your first steps of the new year, figuring out what your next move is, you may find it comforting to know that there's a new Firefox release to try out! Version 72 to be exact.
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Firefox 72.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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How Do Lava Lamps Help with Internet Encryption?
The Cloudflare lava lamps are used for Internet encryption. Learn about entropy in cryptography and why randomness is essential for SSL encryption.
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How to start a blog using Hugo
A detailed tutorial to start a blog with Hugo: write posts in Markdown, pick a theme, and deploy your static site for free on Netlify, Vercel, or GitHub Pages.
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Mini HTTP Guide for Developers
A glance behind the curtain: it can affect engineering decisions
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Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
Cookies like to get around. They have no scruples about where they go save for some basic constraints relating to the origin from which they were set. I mean have a think about it: If a website sets a cookie then you click a link to another page on that
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Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment
In this experiment we created the same app five times, each time with a different framework. The frameworks I used were native Android, native iOS, Flutter, Xamarin Forms and React Native
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Microsoft Edge (Chromium) – Elevation of Privilege to Potential RCE
With some luck and a couple of XSS bugs I was able to break the new Edge
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Scammers registering date-based domain names
Yesterday, January 2nd, my wife received a billing alert from her phone provider. Luckily, she's not with EE - because it's a pretty convincing text. That domain name is specifically designed to include the day's date. If you're stood up on a crowded train, with your phone screen cracked, would you notice that a . is…
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Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs
When building web services, a common wisdom is to try to reduce the number of HTTP requests to improve performance.
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Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS
Guide to building up a tile server and map client from scratch with PostGIS and PostgreSQL.
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