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How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
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Generation JavaScript
I’ll start by saying that this is not a rant, but rather a cry of despair that I’m repeating and that slowly - but steadily - seems to come to consciousness in our industry, like this one. The phenomenon I’m about to describe is not only limited to the Javascript community either, that community seems a lot more…
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Things which aren't magic – Flask and app.route
It's been a while since I've posted so figured it's about time I started a new series on my blog.
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No more JavaScript frameworks
Stop writing Javascript frameworks. Translations: Chinese Japanese Russian Here's the talk, based on this essay, that I gave at OSCON 2015. [Slides] The 100-line templating library presented as a Gist has been cleaned up, documented, and published as the Stamp library. JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxes…
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Inside FastBoot: the road to server-side rendering
Using JavaScript to write fast, interactive web applications has exploded in popularity over the past few years. JavaScript apps offer many strengths over traditional server-rendered applications. Most notably, rich interactions and lightning-...
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Meteor and Qt
Meteor, say hello to cross-platform native app-development. Qt, say hello to a modern, reactive web back-end. TL;DR You can write a nativ...
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What is Meteor.js?
Learn more about what Meteor.js is...
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Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation
For a long time one of the recommendations for a faster site has been to “serve your static content from a cookieless domain”. This sugges...
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An Update to End-To-End
Posted by Stephan Somogyi, Product Manager, Security and Privacy In June, we announced and launched End-To-End , a tool for those who need...
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You Don't Need JQuery
Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps.
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A redesign of the Django websites
Posted by Jannis Leidel and Russell Keith-Magee on Dec. 15, 2014
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Effectively Managing Memory at Gmail Scale
While JavaScript employs garbage collection for automatic memory management, it is not a substitute for effective memory management in applications. JavaScript applications suffer from the same memory related problems that native applications do, such as memory leaks and bloat, yet they must also deal with garbage…
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The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js
It's possible to use Node.js with a browser shell to build cross-platform desktop applications using HTML, CSS and JS. Let's look at some of the options.
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The Offline Cookbook: caching and serving offline-first
Update: Together with Udacity I created a free offline-first interactive course . It involves taking an online-only site to full offline-first glory. Many of the patterns in this article are used.
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New Paypal gateway UI susceptible to spoofing
Hey. I decided to get a paid plan on Github and Paypal looked like a good payment option to me. Click the blue button here : This looks ...
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XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
“ The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.” – Phil Wadler, POPL 2003
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Why I like XSLT
I first fell in love with XSL in 1999, when Microsoft rolled an XSLT processor into MSXML. I got my hands on the works of Shakespeare marked up in XML
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The No CAPTCHA problem
When I read about No CAPTCHA for the first time I was really excited. Did we finally find a better solution? Hashcash? Or what? Finally it...