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Multi-Value All the Wasm
Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a prerequisite for Wasm interface types. Nick Fitzgerald has ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 540 posts.
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The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
Slack has just recently rolled out a “WYSIWYG text input” widget to its Web browser interface. (Apparently, the phased rollout started at the beginning of November 2019, but it’s just now starting to hit the workspaces that I participate in.) The user experience of using this new input method is really, really, really…
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The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components
Open Source, Web Development, and more
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Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio
Create a WhatsApp chatbot using Python & Flask with Twilio's API. Follow our step-by-step guide to build, deploy, & enhance your chatbot. Start building with Twilio.
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Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Onward! ’19 Watch out! If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesti…
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Get started with Web Bundles | Web Platform
Web Bundles enable you to share websites as a single file over Bluetooth and run them offline in your origin's context.
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Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.
On November 18, 2019, Apple’s new map expanded to parts of the Midwest and much of the Western U.S.:
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BodyPix: Real-Time Person Segmentation in the Browser with Tensorflow.js
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
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A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell
Haskell has a proliferation of libraries to choose from for all of your basic backend needs, from logging to database access to routing and web server definition. It's nice to have the freedom of choice, but if you're just starting out, the amount of decisions needed can be overwhelming. Maybe you're not even…
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WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
Steve Sanderson's Blog
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CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)
Over the last several years, the way I write CSS has transitioned from a "semantic" approach to something more like what people call "functional CSS." In this post I explain how I got to this point and share some of the lessons and insights I've picked up along the way.
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Build Your Own React
We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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How internet ads work
header bidding, DFP, GAM, cpm ... welcome in the world of ads, where everything is an acronym. Le me try to explain how everything works under the hood.
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Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)
The standard for browsing the web over a text-=based terminal is Lynx, right? ...
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PeerTube v2
Thanks to your donations, we have been developing a software to free us all from YouTube & Co for a year. Why have we gone much further than the first release, (crowdfunded in the spring of 2018), you might ask? Well, that's because we sincerely believe in the emancipatory power of PeerTube. This article is...
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Moving towards a faster web
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...
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Rust 2020: GUI and Community
In response to the call for blogs about the vision for Rust for 2020, I’m going to write about GUI. I believe the time is right for a native GUI toolkit written in Rust, and that such a thing would fill a very important niche. There is a demand for performance (which, to me, includes startup time, RAM footprint, and…
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Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA
Sendy's reCAPTCHA implementation doesn't do anything.
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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Bypassing GitHub's OAuth Flow with a Head Request
For the past few years, security research has been something I’ve done in my spare time. I know there are people that make a living off of bug bounty programs, but I’ve personally just spent a few hours here and there whenever I feel like it.
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Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
GraphQL offers a lot more than reduced round trips.
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Audio Fingerprinting using the AudioContext API
Audio fingerprinting takes advantage of device performance specs to build up an identifying fingerprint of a user. It uses the AudioContext API for this
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AirPods Pro Page Performance
foobartel Ltd. - Web Design & Development
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Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be phased out starting with Firefox 73.
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When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
When demoing Hyperview to new engineers, there’s one comment that frequently comes up about the HXML data format:
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New Features in Vue 3
The Vue.js Core team is bringing some exciting new features in Vue 3. Composition API, Fragments, Portals, and Suspense, to name a few.