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Back in March, Rolf Weber wrote about a potential vulnerability in the WhatsApp protocol that would allow Facebook to defeat perfect forward secrecy by forcibly change users’ keys, allowing it—or more likely, the government—to eavesdrop on encrypted messages. It seems that this vulnerability is real: WhatsApp has the…
First mistake, drinking the CSS Kool-Aid Several weeks ago, I started designing the layout for my threaded comments on a social news site that I'm building. I had created a down and dirty layout using nested tables. It was ugly, and used nested tables but it worked. I was then paralized by guilt. I couldn't let the…
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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…
When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for com...
Technical blog of Ryan Jerue
Harness the Scala and JavaScript ecosystems to develop robust apps for browsers, serverless, and Node.js.
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Brave is announcing an exciting new feature of Brave Search. It's called Discussions, and it’s now available on desktop and mobile.
A beginner’s guide to NodeGUI, an open-source library for building native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS-like styling.
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.
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team
The conservatives see non-standard custom UI elements as wrong. Liberals see an app built using nothing other than standard system UI elements as boring, old-fashioned, stodgy.
Over the last few months we have been hard at work getting Native Client ready to support the new Pepper plug-in interface. Native Client ...
This guide will walk you through setting up Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack to easily interoperate between low-level Rust code and…
Learnings from real-world experience with IPFS, and the curious stack that powers this website
derailed by dangling pointers
There are several popular meta schemas out there. Open Graph may be the best supported, but if you want your meta data to be picked up by a particular service you might need to do a bit of research. Or support them all.
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Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
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