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My current "investment thesis" is that what we call web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers. When it comes to eking performance out of hand-authored JavaScript and accompanying runtime libraries, we've reached the point of diminishing returns.
Last year I found a design error in the MD5 version of the hashing method used by Mastercard Internet Gateway Service. The flaw allows modification of transaction amount. They have awarded me with a bounty for reporting it. This year, they have switched to HMAC-SHA256, but this one also has a flaw
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to try out several WebVR experiences for the first time, and I was blown away by the possibilities. Using just a headset ...
JSX react in depth - an interactive tutorial
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
I would say this is the future, but we’re already doing it.
HTML Components (HTC), introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5, offers a powerful new way to author interactive Web pages. Using standard DHTML, JScript and CSS knowledge, you can define custom behaviors on elements using the “behavior” attribute. Let’s create a behavior for a simple kind of “image roll-over” effect. For…
In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
JavaScripters often complain about the complexity of React. But to ClojureScripters, React is very nice. What's the difference? In this article, we explore 6 mistakes Reacters make, including mutable state everywhere, Lifecycle Methods and, non-reusable components.
Hi, guys, wanted to make some kind of warning for you to make sure no one gets into situation like this.
Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js (and why we didn’t choose React) By Luis Elizondo At Rever (www.reverscore.com) we just released a new version of our web client using Vue.js. After 641 …
With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language.
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.
Today, we’re releasing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experim…
If you’re reading this page it means that you are accessing a ‘darknet’ web page. Darknets used to refer to places where illicit drugs and pornography were traded, these days it refers to lonely servers without any inbound links languishing away in dusty server rooms that people have all but forgotten about. Refusing…
NodeJS is quickly becoming one of the most commonly used language in building web applications and is beginning to find its way into the Enterprise.
HTTP Public Key Pinning is a very powerful standard that allows a host to instruct a browser to only accept certain public keys when communicating with it for a given period of time. Whilst HPKP can offer a lot of protection, it can also cause a lot of harm too.
This summer, we have enhanced bicycle costing. Not only is overall routing improved, but `use_roads'` and `use_hills` are now much more versatile.
Forms on the web don't usually play nice with bad connections. If you try to submit a form while offline, you'll most likely just lose your input. Here's how we might fix that.
Disconnection can be good.
Project Quantum is a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, Servo, and making massive improvements to other parts of ...
The next release of Android is officially here and comes with some superhero powers to help you get the most from your device.
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Do you develop your Vue.js app in a lo-fi ES5 environment without cool features like single-file components? Or do you use Webpack and spend forever on config? Brunch is a simple build tool that provides a happy medium.
That is, if you ever hope to be acquired by a larger company
A month ago, danluu wrote about [terminal and shell performance](https://danluu.com/term-latency/). In that post, he measured the latency between a key being pressed and the corresponding character appearing in the terminal. Across terminals, median latencies ranged between 5 and 45 milliseconds, with the 99.9th…
