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Passkeys – Under the Hood
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
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How to fight back against Google FLoC
Here’s a closer look at Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer.
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Django 4.2 Released
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on April 3, 2023
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Knockout v3.0.0 released
Knockout.js takes backward compatibility seriously. If you’re using a recent v2.x build, you will typically be able to drop in Knockout v3.0.0 without having to make any changes to your application code. Version 3.0.0 is intended to be fully backward-compatible except for a few carefully chosen design changes that…
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Olark launches "Targeted Chat"
Welcome to Olark's Help Center! Learn how to increase sales using live chat — Guides for automated messages, ecommerce integrations, reporting, customer information and more.
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Deno 1.20
Deno 1.20 increases performance, auto-compresses http responses, adds 'deno task', adds 'deno bench', allows import maps in deno.json, and more
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Practical HTTP Header Smuggling: Sneaking Past Reverse Proxies to Attack AWS
Modern web applications typically rely on chains of multiple servers, which forward HTTP requests to one another. The attack surface created by this forwarding is increasingly receiving more attention, including the recent popularisation of cache poisoning...
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Why to not use JWT (2021)
We build advanced web apps
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Why Remotion is a native macOS app, not Electron
Native lets us build an app that feels right at home on macOS, rather than reflecting the average of every platform and feeling right on none of them. There are a lot of cross-platform approaches out there that attempt to feel native, but they don't.
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Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers
How an ad blocking software messed with our shopping cart platform's analytics feature, and the takeaways we gathered from the experience.
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Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb
Learn how code that interacts with external devices can be ported to the web with WebAssembly and Fugu APIs.
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Browser Fingerprinting Without JavaScript
Turning off JavaScript blocks ads but not device tracking. Discover how no-JavaScript fingerprinting works.
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Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
In the final part of our series, we'll implement an edit modal.
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Is This The Future of The Airline Website?
See how Fantasy propels category leaders forward—AI strategy, flagship digital product design, and brands used daily by billions.
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How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts
We’ve been building Hydrogen for more than a year. Here’s a look behind the scenes at how we did it, what we learned from making big bets, and what it was like building a new framework from the ground up on experimental technology.
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How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?
How does one go about creating a gtk+ working application? Is it even possible? Seriously. TL;DR: The Gtk+ ABI is broken so often that distribution-supplied binaries rarely work. * * * Imagine it is the time when Gtk+ 3.0 was released. You have a beautiful application with no bugs. For the sake of argument…
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How We Built r/Place (2017)
Brian Simpson, Matt Lee, & Daniel Ellis (u/bsimpson, u/madlee, & u/daniel) Each year for April Fools’, rather than a prank, we like to create a project tha
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Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web
At Mozilla, we work to move the Web forward as the platform for creating and consuming great experiences. Recently, we’ve focused on making the Web
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A more modern Gmail app for Android
Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Manager Today, the Gmail app for Android is getting updated with a more modern style, sleeker transitions...
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Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs
In August, Mozilla's Director of Research Andreas Gal, and one of the lead engineers for Firefox OS, Philipp von Weitershausen, gave a couple of presentations in Brazil about Firefox OS. ...
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Responsive Web Design with DevTools' Device Mode
We all develop websites on our desktop and laptop machines, so we tend to initially develop for the desktop experience. But that's increasin...
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