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Slack Shared Channels
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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Gnome Wayland porting – the endgame
Its been a while since I mentioned Wayland in this space - of course that doesn't mean that work on GNOME Wayland support has stopped. Quite the opposite, in fact. The GNOME 3.15.4 release that is due this week will close a number of the remaining gaps: libinput 0.8 has been released, with most of...
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Deno 2.9
`deno desktop` for building native desktop apps from web tech, first-class migration from npm/pnpm/yarn/Bun, CSS module imports, snapshot and parameterized testing, smaller `deno compile --bundle` binaries, and Node.js 26 compatibility.
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Firefox 71
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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RSS Autodiscovery (2006)
RSS autodiscovery is a technique that makes it possible for browsers and other software to automatically find a site's RSS feed, whether it's in RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 format.
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Rolling the dice with CSS random()
Random functions in programming languages are amazing.
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Firefox: Retained Display Lists
Hot on the heels of Off-Main-Thread Painting, our next big Firefox graphics performance project is Retained Display Lists! I you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend reading David’s post abo…
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Introducing the Apollo GraphQL Platform
We started Apollo in 2016 with the objective of lowering the barriers to making high-quality, modern apps. Since then, we have seen tremendous growth in our community with nearly 500,000 downloads per week and companies like Audi, the New York Times, Airbnb, and CNBC all making strategic commitments to GraphQL. With…
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Safari Ruined My Tuesday
Safari broke LiveView apps with an obscure CSS bug. My Tuesday is now gone.
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Norway takes a stance against Google Analytics
Norway is the latest country to declare Google Analytics in violation with the GDPR
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The future of search is boutique
The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
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DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
Enjoy browsing again with an app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo's unique privacy protections.
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Ditching responsive design
Collect and send payments, minimise failures, and fight fraud. No more chasing payments and no expensive card fees.
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Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements
Firefox makes it faster and easier to get where you want to go on the Web with a redesigned Home Page and New Tab experience. The Home Page now includes ic
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Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign
Mailinator is a popular disposable email service. It's also become a great tool for QA Teams to test email receipt, acknowledgment, authen...
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Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
I wrote this app to fix a personal annoyance. You probably don’t need it. I’m not an Imgur user. But in my day-to-day browsing, I sometimes encounter a wild...
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The Plan for React 18
The library for web and native user interfaces
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Deep dive into finding RSS feeds
More than a feed reader, a content curation system to find the top articles of all sources
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The PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript
You can now use PlanetScale in HTTP-only environments like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Netlify Edge Functions.
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An overview of the top web hacking techniques of 2017
The verdict is in! Following 37 nominations whittled down to a shortlist of 15 by a community vote, our panel of experts has conferred and selected the top 10 web hacking techniques of 2017 (and 2016)
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Google Search's Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
Learn what you always wish you knew about Google's algorithms.