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The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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Tor Browser 8.5
Tor Browser 8.5 includes our first stable release for Android plus many new features.
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Tina is not a CMS
Today, we’re excited to announce TinaCMS : an open-source site editing toolkit for React-based sites (Gatsby and Next.j...
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The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2
In 2009, the W3C cancelled the development of the proposed successor of XHTML, XHTML2.
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Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
Detailing Mozilla's failures to send newsletters only to users who actually opted in.
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Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Revenue Share
As of March 5th, the Microsoft Store team has updated the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement (ADA). The next time you log into your Partner Center dashboard, you or someone with an administrative role on your account will be prompted to reaccept the ADA before you can continue to update or manage your…
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Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects
Hello! I wanted to tell you all about an open source project I’m working on that I’m pretty excited about. It’s called Tract and it’s a Hugo theme for large documentation projects. I aim to release version 0.1.0 by the end of 2019. In the meantime, check out the current home page or a sample docs page .
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How Google Pagespeed works
How Google PageSpeed Insights works: where its field data comes from, how Lighthouse calculates the Performance score, and how to improve your page speed.
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Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017)
Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness
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Elegant Error Handling with the JavaScript “Either” Monad
JavaScript gives us a built-in language feature for handling exceptions: try…catch statements. And they’re better than littering our code with if-statements. But they can be problematic. And they are not the only way to handle errors. In this article, we’ll take a look at using the ‘Either monad’ as an alternative to…
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Static web – back to the roots?
Exploring the shift back to static site generators to sanitize web development practices
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The New iPad Mini
If you want a device that is bigger than a phone, but smaller and more holdable than a laptop-screen-sized thing for reading and just walking around with, the iPad Mini is it.
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New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1
There are many improvements and new web platform features in WebKit that are now available with the release of Safari 12.1, included with macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2.
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Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
Abhinav Jangda, Bobby Powers, Emery D. Berger, and Arjun Guha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Minimum Viable Phoenix
Let’s walk through the process of building a dead simple Phoenix application from the ground up.
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Twitter to decentralize something
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.
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What to Expect from Marzipan
It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy. We’ve written here previously with our thoughts about Dark Mode, now it’s time to talk about iOS apps coming to the Mac. Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few details during last year’s Keynote. We knew that some […]
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Front End Development Topics to Learn in 2019
Ah, January. A time of optimism, a time for starting afresh. For making new goals and resolutions. And in the web development world, for looking at the landscape and deciding what we need to learn just to keep up. Because let’s face it - web development is always changing, and if we aren’t constantly learning we’re…
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Browser diversity starts with us
Developers, designers, and strategists, here’s something you can do for the health of the web:
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From Google Analytics to Fathom
tl;dr: I'm now using Fathom for my personal website analytics, and it's easy to self-host and maintain, better for privacy, and can lead to better site performance. Since the mid-2000s, right after it became available, I started using Google Analytics for almost every website I built (whether it be mine or someone…
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From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10
I’ve been working on the FullCalendar for a really long time.
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Frustrations with React Hooks
React Hooks can be frustrating despite their popularity and widespread use. Learn about some of the drawbacks to using React Hooks.
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Using Web Technologies to Print a Book
From Markdown to PDF via HTML and CSS.
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Superhuman: Read Statuses
I’m Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. I’d like to talk about what Superhuman does, why we do it, and what we are changing.