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The Architecture of Mailinator (2007)
Almost 3.5 years ago I started the Mailinator(tm) service. I got the bulk of the idea from my drunk roommate at the time and the first incar...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 480 posts.
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Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo
I recently migrated my personal website (the source code is on GitHub ) from Jekyll to Hugo . It was mostly painless, and now I’m eager to write more often and put more content on my website.
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I discovered a browser bug
I accidentally discovered a huge browser bug a few months ago and I'm pretty excited about it. Security engineers always seem like the "cool kids" to me, so I'm hoping that now I can be part of the club, and y'know, get into the special parties or whatever.
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V8 release v6.8
V8 v6.8 features reduced memory consumption and several performance improvements.
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Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17
In every release of Microsoft Edge, we tune the Chakra JavaScript engine to provide better startup and execution performance, with a leaner memory footprint, and with improved responsiveness on real-world workloads. As EdgeHTML 17 rolls out to users as part of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, we’d like to dive into…
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Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1
Community momentum builds on the path to release
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Projects to Help You Learn React (2017)
As an intermediate beginner, the basic tutorials are too easy now. But it's hard to figure out what to build for practice, and how big those projects should be.
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Sunsetting React Native
Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making…
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Qt for WebAssembly
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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React Native at Airbnb
In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.
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GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
Last week there was a fairly momentous occurance in the JavaScript framework world: Vue.js passed React.js in the number of people who have 'starred' it on Github.
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Politicians in favor of upload filtering get channel deleted by upload filtering
French politicians of the former Front National are furious: their entire YouTube channel was just taken down by automatic filters at YouTube for alleged
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Vendors, Disclosure, and a bit of WebUSB Madness
Update 2018-06-19: Yubico updated their statement on 2018-06-18, apologizing and crediting us: https://twitter.com/Yubico/status/1008816076610625536
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What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App
Porting an existing iOS app to Flutter, what it was like and my thoughts on Flutter thus far.
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GitLab Web IDE
Here's how we went from a proof of concept to a new feature that makes it even easier for everyone to edit inside of GitLab.
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Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor
This week Microsoft is integrating its Streetside imagery for the United States in to iD, a popular web-based editor for contributing to OpenStreetMap. This is the same imagery currently visible…
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Making Pulled Pork with React Native, Expo, and Express
I was planning to make pulled pork the next day. That evening I set up the Weber kettle, got out the bag of charcoal and some chunks of apple wood, and laid everything out. Mise en place , as they say. I’d be waking up at 7am the next morning to light it up, and I didn’t trust my sleepy self to remember everything.
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Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
Using the web today, you are a target. And because of the rampant tracking across websites, each time you use the internet, you become an easier target. Tor Browser can help.
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Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works
Have you ever wondered how after you visit a website you start seeing ads about that website everywhere. This post explains how user tracking enables it.
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Javascript utility libraries to know in 2018
We build Bit Cloud the way you’d build yours — from components, on the same platform we ship to you. Posts from the team building it.
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The Trouble with D3
Recently there were a couple of threads on Twitter discussing the difficulties associated with learning d3.js. I’ve also seen this come up…
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Todo example in Rust
Rust Qt Binding Generator lets you combine Rust code with a Qt 1 graphical application. A previous blog shows how to make a simple clock. It’s a good idea to read that post before reading this more advanced post, because in this post we are getting serious.
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Living APIs and the Case for GraphQL
Why it makes sense to model APIs as graphs, and what GraphQL can do for us to help with discovery, batch operations, and gradual enhancement.