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The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom
Eric Bailey recently wrote on CSS-Tricks about testing your website on a crappy laptop and it reminded me of this anecdote from my own life. About a month ago…
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Introducing Facebook Shops
We’re launching Facebook Shops and investing in features across our apps that inspire people to shop and make selling online easier.
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Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be phased out starting with Firefox 73.
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New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
Thunderbird is going strong at version 52 (ESR) and 57, 58 beta In April 2017 Thunderbird released its successful Extended Service Release (ESR) version 52. This release has just seen it’s fifth “dot update” 52.5.0, where fixes, stability and minor functionality improvements were shipped. Thunderbird 57 beta was also…
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MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.
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Introducing Safari Technology Preview
Starting today, there’s a new, convenient way to see what features and improvements are coming to Safari and other applications that use WebKit.
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Chromecast Support for Firefox
A browser extension that enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like YouTube, Netflix or BBC iPlayer).
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Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL
GraphQL support is in development for PostgreSQL + Supabase.
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Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
This is an extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. (Send improvements to @charliepark .)
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New Search Strategy for Firefox
Ten years ago, we built Firefox to keep the Internet in each of our hands — to create choice and put people in control of their lives online. Our focus h
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Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
Math.tanh, every CSS trig function, and the Web Audio compressor all route through the host libm, so the rounding of a cosine betrays the OS a browser actually …
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Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?
I think it’s now possible to train a large language model with similar functionality to GPT-3 for $85,000. And I think we might soon be able to run the resulting …
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Let websites framebust out of native apps
Back in 1996, the website TotalNews.com had a brilliantly evil idea. Why not make a single website that itself contained all the top American news websites, directly embedded within?
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Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I'm not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I could do something I'm much better at; hacking the system!
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Emoji Under the Hood
Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji
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JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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I fell in love with low-JS
About 5 years ago I was working on a project written in style still common for today:
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Dear JavaScript
This article has been moved to: http://thejameskyle.com/dear-javascript.html
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Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element
Trainspotting is a series of articles highlighting features in the lastest version of Firefox. A new version of Firefox is shipped every six weeks – we at Mozilla call this ...
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“The colored boxes indicate which CPU core performed layout for each node”
What's up with Servo for the weeks of 12 Mar- 2 April 2015
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Why is Claude an Electron app?
If coding agents make native ports cheap, why does Anthropic still ship Claude as an Electron app? Because code is cheap but maintenance isn’t.