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How fast is AMP really?
Tim Kadlec writes about performance, product management, and the web.
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Let’s build a browser engine (2014)
I’m building a toy HTML rendering engine, and I think you should too. This is the first in a series of articles:
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A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet
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Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
There are all sorts of clever things you can do with Facebook’s ad platform. One example I ran across recently is the ability to snipe a…
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OkCupid's “Removed” Visitor API
A blog about programming, the tech industry, and tech education.
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SPAs are harder and always will be (2013)
There's quite a lot of talk these days about Single Page Applications (SPAs) and the terrific user experience they deliver. This is great, and the SPA architecture is probably a good fit for many apps, but I want to point out two reasons why SPAs are harder to develop and maintain than tr
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Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds
Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds.
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The Firefox Dilemma
Consider whether we're advocating for Firefox in the right way, on the right grounds.
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Vendors, Disclosure, and a bit of WebUSB Madness
Update 2018-06-19: Yubico updated their statement on 2018-06-18, apologizing and crediting us: https://twitter.com/Yubico/status/1008816076610625536
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GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
Last week there was a fairly momentous occurance in the JavaScript framework world: Vue.js passed React.js in the number of people who have 'starred' it on Github.
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Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media
A Social Transition Last week, I wrote a blog post emphasizing the distinction between the social internet and social media. The former describes the internet’s ... Read more
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ReasonML: Strict, powerful and forgiving
I gave this talk at JSFoo, Bengaluru, in October 2018. It describes my experience in switching to ReasonML on the Turaku project and how learning to use a statically-typed functional programming language involves much more than learning the language's syntax or features.
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Browser-Wars History: MD5-Hashed Posts Declassified
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Free SSL on Github Pages with a custom domain: Part 2 – Let's Encrypt
GitHub Pages has just become even more awesome. Since yesterday1, GitHub Pages supports HTTPS for custom domains. And yes, it is still free!
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Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms
I have attended several Tech events where they invite so-called gurus and experts to explain the digital landscape in Africa, but I have…
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CSS: The bad bits and how to avoid them
The more I use CSS, the more I think it’s an absolute wild wild west. It’s mature, ubiquitous, yet lacks basic, common-sense features that come as a given in other similar tools
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WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe
WebAssembly is all the rage these days. And for good reasons. It’s pretty exciting to see many compiled languages adopting a common intermediate represe...
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Free static websites with SSL for hackers
Note: GitLab Pages now fully integrate with Let’s Encrypt , making this post obsolete.
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How Generative Music Works
For his 1965 composition “It's Gonna Rain”, Steve Reich designed a generative mechanical system.
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Projects to Help You Learn React (2017)
As an intermediate beginner, the basic tutorials are too easy now. But it's hard to figure out what to build for practice, and how big those projects should be.
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Fake ad blockers in Chrome Web Store
People searching for a Google Chrome ad blocking extension have to choose from dozens of similarly named extensions. Only few of these are legitimate, most are forks of open source ad blockers trying to attract users with misleading extension names and descriptions. What are these up to? Thanks to Andrey Meshkov we…