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In May 2019 I attended a talk by Mike Taylor who works on webcompat at Mozilla. Mike told the sordid story of window.event, a non-standard IE invention that was replicated in Konqueror, which showed up in Webkit, which stuck around in Blink, and was now Mike’s problem in Firefox. It was a good story fraught with ups…
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How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient? From data centres to transmission networks to the devices that we hold in our …
As Mozilla tightens and refines its product focus in 2020, today we are announcing the end of life for two legacy services that grew out of the Firefox Tes
It's always surprised me how little I hear about browsers.
iOS 14 reimagines the iPhone experience, delivering a major update to the Home Screen, widgets, and App Clips.
How is Google so fast? It’s so fast we take it for granted. It feels instant from the time you search to when results are displayed. What can we learn abou...
I try to be a friendly citizen of the web. I try to keep my site in good shape. It should load quickly, track nothing beyond your basic server logs, not hassle you about cookies, GDPR or my newsletter. I do have a newsletter but it won't pop up in your face here. I try to stay firmly on the side of friendly and a good…
A roundup of some of the key ways in which Swift 5.3 enhances the overall experience of building views using SwiftUI.
Deno 1.4 adds support for the web standard WebSocket API, deno run --watch, and integrated test coverage. This is the largest feature release yet.
I use goodreads a lot because I like to read books and want to find more books to read. This morning I was reading a thread on hackernews on Sarah Manavis’s ...
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Today, we are launching a pilot program to give developers a way to promote their add-ons on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). This pilot program, which will run between the end of September ...
This tutorial looks at how to get started with Django's asynchronous views.
The landscape has changed for self-serve business website design and hosting. Our review of three most practical DIY approaches, suitable for a simple static website up-to a full Content Management System (CMS).
We spoke with Evan about the release of Vue 3, his opinion on no-backend & fullstack approaches, Vue use cases and the work-life balance of the creator of the technology.
The File System Access API enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files on the user's local device, such as IDEs, photo and video editors, text editors, and more. After a user grants a web app access, this API allows them to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the…
As consumer devices and internet speeds become faster, websites become larger and more complex. Is website performance getting worse overall?
The latest release of Android offers easier ways to help you manage your conversations, connected devices, privacy, and much more.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
The conventional wisdom for app subscriptions is to price affordably, like $1.99/month, and hopefully attract lots of subscribers at a low price. Then by having low pricing, fewer will reject the idea of subscriptions, and you’ll make up the difference with volume. But this is the wrong
The VP of Engineering at Cognition, the applied AI lab behind Devin. Building the future of software engineering with AI.
Why you should be opting for local tooling when working with sensitive data, even Non-Production ones.
API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface which defines interactions between multiple software architecture layers. Programmers carry out…
Stripe’s approach to creating a 1:40 million-scale, interactive 3D model of the earth.
Mozilla limiting users’ choice to 9 add-ons on mobile is only the latest development. Add-on support is degrading across all browsers and will continue to do so.
