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How to add Two-Factor Authentication to your website with Google Authenticator
Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your Website with Google Authenticator and Twilio SMS
Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22
This is the first in a series of posts published on or about the time a new Firefox version graduates from 'Nightly' status and becomes Firefox Aurora. We think that ...
An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime
Pushpin makes it easy to create HTTP long-polling, HTTP streaming, and WebSocket services using any web stack as the backend. It’s compatible with any framew...
Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
You surely know this: You're looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you're probably not gonna need them for a few years or so (so there's no need to memorize them). So, what do you do? You copy-paste them. Here's an example:
Media Queries are a Hack
The big buzzwords in CSS these days are “modular” and “responsive”—and for good reasons. But we’re still trying to achieve those goals with the wrong tool: Media Queries. What we really need is a tool that doesn’t exist yet: Element Queries.
Opera will use Blink
» Hello Blink
Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project
WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful desig...
Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
Hi. I'm Adam Wiggins, cofounder and CTO of Heroku. Heroku has been my life’s work. Millions of apps depend on us, and I take that responsibility very...
Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
Like many developers I’ve been excited by the promise of Asm.js . Reading the recent news that Asm.js is now in Firefox nightly is what got my interest going. There’s also been a massive surge in interest after Mozilla and Epic announced ( mirror ) that they had ported Unreal Engine 3 to Asm.js – and that it ran…
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
Mozilla’s mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we’re supporting this mission by experimenting with what’s n
No to "No UI"
A critique of 'invisible design' and the NoUI movement: invisibility propagates the myth of immateriality, ignores interface culture and takes agency away from users and designers.
Analyzing mbostock's queue.js
Bryan Summersett's home page.
Worst CAPTCHA Ever
By definition, CAPTCHA should be easy to read by humans but hard to read by machines. Apparently, they don’t agree with that at D&B:
Django 1.5.1 released
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 28, 2013
Why Asm.js Bothers Me
Please note that this post expresses my personal opinion and mine alone, not those of my employer or my teammates.
Web Framework Benchmarks
Round 1 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Project!