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Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all
Today, we’re thrilled to be partnering with Let’s Encrypt, the world’s largest certificate authority.
Basecamp Next: UI Preview
When we started thinking about the design of the all new Basecamp, we had three key things in mind: Speed Big picture Focus With that in mind, and many experiments later, we came up with a unique interface that is crazy fast, excellent for big picture broad overviews, and perfectly ta…
A CMS with no server and 18 lines of configuration
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
The Web We Broke
I read something depressing last Monday, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
The Ambiguity of Open and H.264 vs. VP8
Google has recently announced their intention to remove the H.264 video codec from its Chrome browser. This decision has been smeared as an evil campaign for controlling video on the web, akin to not-invented-here syndrome. It’s also been lauded as the push that the web needs to remain open and free. Mostly, it’s been…
What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?
Update, June 2020: I’ve sold BeardGuru.com, so I am no longer responsible for its content.
Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?
Fixing problems that shouldn't exist
Heroku WebSockets Now in Public Beta
We’re excited to announce that WebSocket functionality is now available on Heroku in public beta. We can’t wait to see the powerful and creative real-time.
Piwik 3.0.0
Piwik 3.0.0 brings many improvements to Piwik, including a full redesign of the application, security improvements and several major improvements in the core analytics platform and core plugins APIs.
Apollo Server 1.0 – GraphQL Server for Node.js Frameworks
Today, after more than a year of development, testing and production use, we’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of Apollo Server ! 🎉
Introduction to SerenityOS Programming
This post will give you a quick intro to the basics of GUI programming for SerenityOS.
How My Mom Thinks Search Engines Work
For those of you who have been doing SEO for awhile now, think back to when you first started pitching ideas to bosses, client lists, or other members of your marketing team. If you remember a few blank stares and responses like, "Don't most people just search for our brand name if they want to…
Abusing Amazon Images
Created May 21, 2005. Last updated January 10, 2014. Thanks to Aryeh Leib Taurog for the hover code.
Building a collaborative pixel art editor with CRDTs
CRDTs sound cool, but how are they actually used? Let's learn by building a collaborative pixel art editor.
Channels adopted as an official Django project
Posted by Andrew Godwin on Sept. 9, 2016
Requiring secure contexts for all new features
Since Let’s Encrypt launched, secure contexts have become much more mature. We have witnessed the successful restriction of existing, as well as new features to secure contexts. The W3C TAG ...
Common Google XSS
A simple XSS in Google application