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TL;DR: Mastodon’s Sidekiq deferred execution jobs are the limiting factor for scaling federated traffic in a single-server or small cluster deployment. Sidekiq performance scales poorly under a single process model, and can be limited by database performance in a deployment of the default Dockerized configuration.
The Gun.io blog: insights on hiring software developers, AI in engineering, distributed teams and how to build high-performing technical teams.
Start your indie sotware journey by creating the simplest app you can monetize
Mozilla is excited to share that today 18 operators at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona announced their commitment to Firefox OS, which will power t
If you're using Chrome 53, which was released last week, you might find that some websites which worked under Chrome 52 now fail with "Your connection is not private" with an error code of NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED . For example, choosemyreward.chase.com shows the following error as of publication…
React provides a better abstraction over the DOM than MVC frameworks ever can. React is the last piece of the puzzle for ClojureScript web frontend development.
tl;dr — Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane to track debugging of specific javascript functions
DuckDB-Wasm is an in-process analytical SQL database for the browser. It is powered by WebAssembly, speaks Arrow fluently, reads Parquet, CSV, and JSON files backed by Filesystem APIs or HTTP requests, and has been tested with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Node.js. You can try it at shell.duckdb.org or on Observable.
Using data- attributes for indexation, and a dynamic stylesheet with a CSS3 selector for search, the implementation of a client-side full-text search is possible (and straightfoward) in CSS rather ...
For many using Unix-derived systems today, we take for granted that /some/path and /some/path/ are the same. Most shells will even add a trailing slash for you when you press the Tab key after the name of a directory or a symbolic link to one.
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to draw charts with Chart.js and how to customize them to suit our needs.
Content blocking in Safari is a thing in and of itself, and it's not good. One of the consequences is ads appearing in YouTube. Why does it happen and can it be prevented?
We all know that to create an interactive front end for your website you need JavaScript. Not just vanilla JS, mind: we're in 2022, and to create an…
People can be quite snobbish about WordPress, just as they are about many successful things. But there’s a very good reason for WordPress’s tremendous success.
We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.
500+ domain extensions, 100+ plugins, and the best support team on the planet. We've been changing the domain industry since 2008, and we're only getting started.
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
See Unreal Tournament (1999) run in a web browser!
For my recent One Day Build: Expense Tracking project I wanted to enable notifications in a progressive web app. ChatGPT struggled to generate any good code for me, and I also struggled to find any minimal clear explanations online.
Why it makes sense to model APIs as graphs, and what GraphQL can do for us to help with discovery, batch operations, and gradual enhancement.
This blog post covers enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) included in Safari on iOS and iPadOS 13.3, Safari 13.0.4 on macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra.
