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Chrome 60 Beta
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Wi...
Migrating Pinterest profiles to React
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0
Gatsby is a React-based open source framework with performance, scalability and security built-in. Collaborate, build and deploy 1000x faster on Netlify.
Building a Web-Based Motion Graphics Editor
What would a modern motion graphics editor look like?
Firefox 71: A year-end arrival
Please welcome Firefox 71 to the stage! This time around, we have a plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode, log ...
Ember and D3: Building responsive analytics
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
jQuery 1.5.2 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
EFF Year in Review: Google's Corporate Paternalism in the Browser
It’s a big year for the oozing creep of corporate paternalism and ad-tracking technology online. Google and its subsidiary companies have tightened their grips on the throat of internet innovation, all while employing the now familiar tactic of marketing these things as beneficial for users. Here...
Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting
The CSS Working Group is continuing a debate over the best way to define nesting in CSS.
Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service
Google Analytics was the go-to analytics tool. It set the standard, we all learned on it, and we all used it. But Google Analytics 4? It’s a nightmare. I’ve ...
The next generation of serverless
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly
Thanks to recent work in Chrome and Emscripten, you can now use up to 4GB of memory in WebAssembly applications. That’s up from the previous limit of 2GB. It might seem odd that there was ever a limit - after all, no work was needed to allow people to use 512MB or 1GB of memory! - but it turns out that there are some…
Ten Years of JMAP
We announced JMAP 10 years ago, here is an update on its progress
Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...
Nweb: a tiny, safe web server (static pages only)
Manage and support computers, servers, storage systems, operating systems, networking, and more.
Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox
Users can now block poorly behaving third-party DLLs in Firefox to improve stability and performance.
V8 release v6.9
V8 v6.9 features reduced memory usage through embedded built-ins, faster WebAssembly startup through Liftoff, better DataView and WeakMap performance, and much more!
English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search
Posted by Christian Plagemann, Director, and Katya Cox, Product Manager, Google Research Learning a language can open up new opportunities in a per...
Design System Options for Rails
Choosing a design system and component library for Ruby on Rails applications
jQuery 1.4.3 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Building a higher-level query API: the right way to use Django's ORM
This blog post is based on a talk given at the Brighton Python User Group on April 10th, 2012.