Race conditions on the web
I enjoy breaking websites.
98% of sites on Cloudflare now use IPv6
It's 2016 and almost every site using Cloudflare (more than 4 million of them) is using IPv6. Cloudflare sees significant IPv6 traffic globally where networks have enabled IPv6 to the consumer.
HTTPS' massive speed advantage
I tweeted this the other day, and the internet was not pleased: > HTTPS is slow. No - wait - is it HTTP that's slow?! https://t.co/T49GG7oCaK pic.twitter.com/cfnYOpXMWc [https://t.co/cfnYOpXMWc] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 8, 2016 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/751317949349130240] In fact, a
Django CMS version 3.3 has been released
The new django CMS 3.3 offers an enhanced user experience, improved stability and faster performance throughout, making it a strongly recommended upgrade for all projects.
A WebAssembly Milestone: Experimental Support in Multiple Browsers
WebAssembly is an emerging standard whose goal is to define a safe, portable, size- and load-time efficient binary compiler target which offers near-native performance—a virtual CPU for the Web. WebAssembly ...
CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web
Introducing CoinTent
Squarespace Announces Local Development Server
Today, we’re announcing a new developer tool called the Squarespace Local Development Server . With it, developers can preview changes to template code locally (on their computer) before pushing them to a live website.
Composability: From Callbacks to Categories in ES6
Exploring Functional Programming ideas like Monads and Kleisli Category in JavaScript. Starting from an alternative solution to Promises.
Full-Stack Redux Tutorial
Tero Parviainen
Bringing HSTS to www.google.com
Posted by Jay Brown, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Security For many years, we’ve worked to increase the use of encryption between our us...
The rise of the API-based SaaS
API SaaS products bring a new age of enterprise cloud-based solutions. An age that empowers developers and creates the building blocks for our future.
Computing primes with CSS
I’ve been working on a redesign of this site, so doing more CSS, finally internalizing Sass, etc. During my reading, the nth-child pseudo-class caught my eye.
We Have Always Been at War with UI
A familiar story: company makes product, product becomes wildly popular, company royally fucks product up. The most recent example of this is TimelineGate, but it’s something I’ve had on my mind for a while. Thus I present to you a list of complaints about personally-inconvenient UI changes, carefully disguised as a…
Chrome 56 Beta: “Not Secure” Warning, Web Bluetooth, and CSS Position: Sticky
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Wi...
Mozilla shouldn't copy Chrome's permission prompt for extensions
As Mozilla’s Web Extensions project is getting closer towards being usable, quite a few people seem to expect some variant of Chrome’s permission prompt to be implemented in Firefox. So instead of just asking you whether you want to trust an add-on Firefox should list exactly what kind of permissions an add-on needs…
Lambda@Edge – Preview
Just last week, a comment that I made on Hacker News resulted in an interesting email from an AWS customer! He told me that he runs a single page app that is hosted on S3 (read about this in Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3) and served up at low latency through Amazon CloudFront. […]
Front-End Performance: The Dark Side
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
Nearly there
We’ve spent the past two weeks asking people around the world to think about our four refined design directions for the Mozilla brand identity. The results are in and the ...
WordPress is now 13 years old
The first release of WordPress is now available.