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Vue in 2016
It’s already end of 2016! During the past 12 months, Vue’s growth has been consistently exceeding my expectations — the project has grown…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 467 posts.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kerning Like a Designer
In this article, we talk about the definition of kerning and its importance in design. Learn more about kerning here, and start kerning like a pro!
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Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
Now, you don't have to download VPN extensions or pay for VPN subscriptions to access blocked websites and to shield your browsing when on public Wi-Fi.
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YouTube has apparently reinstated RSS feeds
Well if there's something I wasn't expecting to find tonight, it was that apparently YouTube has decided to allow users to follow channels via RSS again , and unlike the last few years, this time it actually looks to be officially supported!
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The Basics of Web Application Security
Security is both very important and often under-emphasized. While many targeted techniques help, there are some basic clean code habits which every developer can and should be doing
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Building a more power-efficient browser
Today, Jason Weber shared a post on the Windows Experience Blog demonstrating the power efficiency of Microsoft Edge over other popular browsers on Windows 10. With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we are hard at work pushing the envelope further, engineering Microsoft Edge to last even longer with typical…
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More Chinese Mobile UI Trends
Another look through mobile UI design patterns in the Middle Kingdom.
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Yes, All DRM
Everybody knows that the digital locks of DRM on the digital media you own is a big problem. If you’ve bought a digital book, album, or movie, you should be able to do what you want with it—whether that’s enjoying it wherever you want to, or making it more accessible by changing the font size or...
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Our best practices are killing mobile web performance
Web performance rules invented for desktop web access need to be revised for the mobile era.
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Search Results are officially AMP’d
Now when you search on your mobile device, you’ll see a label that indicates which sites have pages that are ready to load lightning fast.
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Roundcube Webmail 1.2.0 released with PGP support
Free and open source webmail software for the masses, written in PHP
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My url isn't your url
When I started the precursor to the curl project, httpget, back in 1996, I wrote my first URL parser. Back then, the universal address was still called URL: Uniform Resource Locators. That spec was published by the IETF in 1994. The term "URL" was then used as source for inspiration when naming the tool and … Continue…
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Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese company)
StartSSL uses https://auth.startssl.com/ for the front-end to access to their PKIs (login to the PKI, create, revoke certificates...). It's the Core of their service and the critical part of their infrastructure.
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You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web's core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to say "I can't let you do that, Dave"; rather than "Yes, boss"—to the Web's standards. At the time,...
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Make Dope Beats with ReactJS
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5
By the end of this year Chrome will begin ignoring Flash as Google takes another step towards removing the "final Plugin" by replacing Flash with HTML5.
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Undocumented Facebook API to identify friends in photos
So last week I was casually browsing through Facebook feed and looking at some random photo posted by a friend. So hovering over the pictur...
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A Simple Request: VLC.js
Almost five years ago to today, I made a simple proposal to the world: Port MAME/MESS to Javascript. That happened. I mean, it cost a dozen people hundreds of hours of their lives…. and there…
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Introducing the B3 JIT compiler
WebKit's FTL JIT now uses a new backend on OS X — the Bare Bones Backend, or B3 for short, replaces LLVM as the low-level optimizer.
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Why Chrome 53 Is Rejecting Chase Bank's Symantec Certificate
If you're using Chrome 53, which was released last week, you might find that some websites which worked under Chrome 52 now fail with "Your connection is not private" with an error code of NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED . For example, choosemyreward.chase.com shows the following error as of publication…
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Making Django CMS as easy to install as WordPress
People can be quite snobbish about WordPress, just as they are about many successful things. But there’s a very good reason for WordPress’s tremendous success.