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Disabling SSLv3 and RC4
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer As the previously announced transition to SHA-256 certificates is nearing completion, we are p...
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GraphQL: A data query language
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Relay: Declarative data for React applications
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React Native for Android
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I hope WebDAV dies
WebDAV is a file access and transfer protocol created in the 90s. It has support for file locks, arbitrary key-value properties attached to folders, file mimetypes, and many other features that extend this standard. It also has powerful access control features.
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Dark corners of Unicode
I’m assuming, if you are on the Internet and reading kind of a nerdy blog, that you know what Unicode is. At the very least, you have a very general understanding of it — maybe “it’s what gives us emoji”. That’s about as far as most people’s understanding extends, in my experience, even among programmers. And that’s a…
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The Pixel Factory
"I think a lot of mathematics is really about how you understand things in your head. It's people that did mathematics, we're not just general purpose machines, we're people. We see things, we feel things, we think of things. A lot of what I have done in my mathematical career has had to do with finding new ways to…
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Will there be a Distributed HTTP?
One of the things that came up at the HTTP Workshop was “distributed HTTP” — i.e., moving the Web from a client/server model to a more distributed one. This week, Brewster Khale (of Archive.org fame) talked about similar thoughts on his blog and at CCC. If you haven’t seen that yet, I’d highly suggest watching the…
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Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web
As part of our effort to grow the Web platform and make it accessible to new devices, we are trying to reduce the Web's dependence on Flash. As part of ...
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Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
Things are moving fast for royalty-free video codecs. A month ago, the IETF NETVC Working Group had its first meeting and two weeks ago Cisco announced Tho
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React, Flux, RethinkDB and SageMathCloud – Summer 2015 Update
I've been using databases and doing web development for over 20 years, and I've never really loved any database before and definitely didn'...
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How widely used are security-based HTTP response headers?
In this blog I look at how widespread the usage of common security based HTTP response headers are in the Alexa Top 1 Million most visited sites.
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Writ – Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML
HTML is super easy to write. Markdown is even easier to write and generate HTML from. But what does it look like?
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Backdooring JavaScript using minifier bugs
In addition to unforgettable life experiences and personal growth, one thing I got out of DEF CON 23 was a copy of POC||GTFO 0x08 from Travis Goodspeed. The coolest article I’ve read so far in it is “Deniable Backdoors Using Compiler Bugs,” in which the authors abused a pre-existing bug in CLANG to create a backdoored…
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Lisp for the Web, Part III
This piece is about how to build a modern web application with Common Lisp in the backend, from scratch.
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The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
Today we are announcing some major upcoming changes to Firefox add-ons. Our add-on ecosystem has evolved through incremental, organic growth over the years, but there are some modernizations to Firefox ...
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