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2018
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Dapps

A friend asked me at breakfast this week “what gets you excited in crypto these days?” I answered “Dapps.” If the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 was about raising capital to fund development efforts (and speculating on all of that), then it sure feels like 2018 is the year we start getting […]

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“Stylish” is back, and you still shouldn't use it

2 days after I published ‘“Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history’, Stylish was pulled from the Chrome and Firefox stores. The story echoed around parts of the internet for a few days, my name was misspelled on several right-wing British news websites, and I felt that I’d helped make the world a…

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Union Types in Flow and Reason

Union types are powerful yet often overlooked. At work, I've been using Flow which thankfully supports union types. But as I've refactored more of our code to use union types, I've noticed that our bundle size has been steadily increasing!

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About rel=noopener (2016)

2021 update: Browsers now implicitly set rel=noopener for any target=_blank link, following a spec change . If the demo on this page no longer seems scary, congratulations — you’re using a modern browser!

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Serverless QBasic

My first exposure to programming was on an HP-85 . This must have been around 1992 or 1993; the machine was then already largely obsolete, having been first produced in 1980.

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Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web

Most Web applications today follow the adage “your data for my services”. They motivate this deal from both a technical perspective (how could we provide services without your data?) and a business perspective (how could we earn money without your data?) . Decentralizing the Web means that people gain the ability to…