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Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released
Phoenix 1.6 is out! This release ships with new authentication and mailer generators, a new HEEx template engine, and more.
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OAuth Attack Vectors
Intro The OAuth2 authorization protocol has been under fire for the past ten years. You've probably already heard about plenty of "return_uri" tricks, token leakages, CSRF-style attacks on clients, an
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The Third Web
(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.ccSatya has created an audio version of this essay. Eine deutsche Version findet sich hier. Una versione italiana di questo testo è qui – grazie Nebbia! En […]
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What Is React: A Visual Introduction for Beginners
What is React? What is it used for? Why React? This is an interactive guide for complete beginners. The only prerequisite is some knowledge of HTML.
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.
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Why IndexedDB is slow and what to use instead
Struggling with IndexedDB performance? Discover hidden bottlenecks, advanced tuning techniques, and next-gen storage like the File System Access API.
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Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser
Brave Wallet is a secure crypto wallet, built right into the Brave privacy browser. No extension required.
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Lessons from Building a Static Site Generator (2020)
The backstory behind Elder.js and the thinking behind the 5 biggest design decisions.
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Getting to the bottom of web map performance
mostly 1990s PC gaming
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JPEG XL would be Turing-complete without the 1024×1024 pixel limitation
You can construct the Rule 110 cellular automaton in JPEG XL.
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Let's stop building APIs around a network hack (2017)
JSON-API has been one of the most popular standards for API development for a while now. It was conceived in 2013, battled through some rather different RC versions (changing drastically as it went), finally stabilizing with v1.0 back in mid-2015. My interest in JSON-API has changed
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An Inconsistent Truth: Next.js and Typesafety
Next.js is a great framework. The frontend and backend have never been closer. Can we bridge the remaining gap in a typesafe way?
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Authoring a SIMD enhanced WASM library with Rust
All the pieces have come together for widespread Wasm SIMD usage. The majority of browsers and Node 16 LTS support Wasm SIMD out of the box, and Rust recently learned how to compile Wasm intrinsics. Now I need to port a library from x86 SIMD to Wasm SIMD and distribute it in such a way that will fallback to a non-SIMD…
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Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
WebAssembly (Wasm) has many applications in the cloud-native world today – WASI, edge cloud computing, Proxy-Wasm, and cloud-native runtime for server
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The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development
Nightmare scenario with the Javascript ecosystem mess
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In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins
An edge case has convinced me it's the 'last' return that always wins…
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NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain
Today’s biggest misconception about NFTs is that they’re “jpeg” images stored on the Ethereum blockchain, it’s not. Probably because that digital art can be easy to visualize, and famous artists attempt today to sell their digital art as an NFT on a platform such as Opensea, it has gained lot of attention these past…
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Swift on the Server (2020)
Why choose Swift as a backend language in 2020? What are the available frameworks to build your server? Let me guide you.
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Docusaurus 2 Beta
After a lengthy alpha stage in order to ensure feature parity and quality, we are excited to officially release the first Docusaurus 2 beta.
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Supercharge Your Node.js with Rust
Dmitry Kudryavtsev is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in the industry, and a tech entrepreneur creating sustainable online business.
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Introduction to WebAssembly Components
WebAssembly and WASI show great promise for the future of computing outside the browser, and the WebAssembly component model aims to improve the portability, cross-language, and composition story for Wasm. This article explains the goals of the component model, and showcases how to use tooling from the Bytecode…
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Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript
Technical blog of Ryan Jerue
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What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs
Offset pagination gets a bad rap because it’s backend inefficient, but it’s actually a nice feature from a consumer’s perspective. How to bring those advantages to cursor-based APIs.
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Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
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5M+ Wordpress sites use “Classic Editor” plugin
Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen.
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Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022
Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.
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Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)
Apple's iOS browser (Safari) and engine (WebKit) are uniquely under-powered. Consistent delays in the delivery of important features ensure the web can never be a credible alternative to its proprietary tools and App Store. This is a bold assertion, and proving it requires examining the record from multiple directions.
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A look at search engines with their own indexes
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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On Javascript Performance1. Techempower Rankings
A review of Javascript performance. Part 1 - Techempower Rankings.