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React hooks changed radically how we build frontend applications allowing engineers to separate stateful logic from rendering. However, under a seemingly simple API there are some aspects of React hooks that are the source of bugs and performance issues. In this article, we will do a deep dive into the javascript…
Last month we removed our live chat bubble and replaced it with a link to live chat in our navigation.
Quicker, but also more convenient
The 80386 is the most important CPU Intel ever produced. It confirmed the importance of the x86 line and sparked a computing revolution. And yet it almost never saw the light of day. This is the history of the 386 and why it was such a landmark.
One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google's products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that's not the point of this post. I found out about…
Apple's product design teams should do a better job eliminating unwanted radio frequency emissions from their product!
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB .
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
A deep dive into a new reasoning technique called Entropix.
This week’s analysis on multi-cloud being a bad idea is once again pushed back by breaking news. In this case, AWS is suing a former executive, Brian
Editor’s note: based on industry research (from Chrome and others), and the ubiquity of HTTPS, we will be replacing the lock icon in Chrome’...
Like a cat, the Test Pilot program has had many lives. It originally started as an Add-on before we relaunched it three years ago. Then in January, we anno
When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, "tutorial hell" was enemy number one. You'd know you were living in it if you:
The Cloud Firestore database is a NoSQL, serverless solution for mobile and web application development -- now generally available globally.
The US antitrust complaint against Google shows that the claim 'to improve speed with AMP' was false from the start. It is simply a measure to increase ad revenue.
SDXL Turbo is a new text-to-image mode based on a novel distillation technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), enabling the model to create image outputs in a single step and generate real-time text-to-image outputs while maintaining high sampling fidelity.
For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the …
In this post, we want to share a little bit of Tor Browser history with you, the origins of our features and designs, and how many of our innovative privacy and security features have been adopted by other browsers.
It’s typically 10 μm thick and 400 mm wide, giving it an aspect ratio of 40000 in that dimension, and rolls are commonly some ten meters in length, for an aspect ratio of 1 000 000; heavy-duty versions can reach 30 μm or more. Despite their thinness, foils of 25 μm or more are impermeable to oxygen, water, and light…
How does one solution kill viruses and bacteria on contact, and the other not at all?
The PostgreSQL Core Team and the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada (PGCAC) wish to provide clarification on the ownership and …
Yesterday, in reaction to pointer events becoming a W3C recommendation, Tim Kadlec published an important piece about Apple’s huge influence on the mobile web.
I believe that Silicon Valley is like Las Vegas, except they make you pass a number of tests before they let you gamble. This means that only a relatively select group gets to sit at the table. The purpose of this post is to analyze the folowing problem:
