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More on today's Gmail issue
Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar Gmail's web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 1...
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How to build vector tiles from scratch
Building MVT tiles from scratch
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Python, the Web and Little Things on my Mind
A bunch of things currently on my mind regarding web development with Python and future directions.
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Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions
For too long, web race condition attacks have focused on a tiny handful of scenarios. Their true potential has been masked thanks to tricky workflows, missing tooling, and simple network jitter hiding
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SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level
PDF slides from a presentation by Paul Gerste at DEF CON 32. It turns out some databases have vulnerabilities in their binary protocols that can be exploited by carefully crafted …
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Google's Indexing Javascript more than we thought
In a match made in marketing heaven, Distilled has become part of Brainlabs, the global, digital-first, media agency.
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Processing ported to JavaScript
As a sort-of reverse birthday present I’ve decided to release one of my largest projects, in recent memory. This is the project that I’ve been alluding to for quite some time now :
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Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder
Posted by Ela Czajka, Software Engineer Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. ...
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Browser Engines 2015: Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts
I used to work as a developer in the “core” group at Opera that developed thePresto web engine. During this period, I often wondered just how many developers...
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Inside FastBoot: the road to server-side rendering
Using JavaScript to write fast, interactive web applications has exploded in popularity over the past few years. JavaScript apps offer many strengths over traditional server-rendered applications. Most notably, rich interactions and lightning-...
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Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go
I'm happy to announce the general availability of watgo - the W eb A ssembly T oolkit for G o. This project is similar to wabt (C++) or wasm-tools (Rust), but in pure, zero-dependency Go.
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Let's Not Encrypt (2019)
Let's Discuss the organization providing a false sense of security at an unbeatable price.
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1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser
1Password X is our brand new, full-featured experience that runs entirely in your browser. Find out what it can do.
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Designing Websites for iPhone X
The section below about safe area insets was updated on Oct 31, 2017 to reflect changes in the iOS 11.2 beta.
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
Hear from a Warp engineer why building a UI in Rust is challenging. Learn about innovative solutions and approaches to tackle its strict memory management and lack of inheritance.
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Do you really know why you prefer REST over RPC?
A few weeks ago I’ve seen an interesting flock of tweets initiated by this question: This question and the tweets that followed put my brain on quite an animated discussion…
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Web development is just broken
No, really, there’s something deeply flawed with web development. And I’m not (just) talking browser incompatibilities, or Ruby vs. Java vs. PHP vs. anything else or about Flash or HTML…
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Web Code is a solved Problem – how about fixing Web UI next?
These days most of the focus in Web development is on code - JavaScript code in particular. By comparison, the Web UI - HTML and CSS and the browser DOM and support features - feels like it has been stuck in the mud and stagnating for a long time. We now have all the advanced coding tools to do cool stuff, but it…
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Rails 3.2 Performance: Another Step Slower
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Browser Extension Password Managers Exposing Passwords Everywhere
Advancements in password cracking and frequent theft of password databases endanger single-factor password authentication systems. Password managers are one of the only tools available that can help users remember unique high-entropy passwords, and other secrets such as credit card numbers, for a large number of…